The United Kingdom, alongside the European Union, on Tuesday took direct action against Russia with sweeping sanctions after President Donald Trump’s talk with Russian President Vladimir Putin failed to advance ceasefire negotiations. Read More.
The Justice Department moved Wednesday to cancel settlements with Minneapolis and Louisville that called for an overhaul of their police departments following the killings of George Floyd and Breonna Taylor that became the catalyst for nationwide racial injustice protests in the summer of 2020. Read More.
The Pentagon has accepted a luxury Boeing 747 jet from Qatar to be used as Air Force One, the president’s plane, according to the Defense Department.
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Speaker Mike Johnson delivered a major win for President Donald Trump early Thursday morning, quashing a conservative rebellion and driving a deeply divided House GOP to pass a bill that many of them were still pushing fiercely to change. Read More.
A government report released on Thursday covering wide swaths of American health and wellness reflects some of the most contentious views on vaccines, the nation's food supply, pesticides and prescription drugs held by Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Read More.
Yearly cancer deaths linked to alcohol have doubled in the United States over the last three decades, rising from just under 12,000 a year in 1990 to more than 23,000 a year in 2021, new research finds. Read More.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's airport screening program has detected multiple cases of the new COVID-19 variant NB.1.8.1, which has been linked to a large surge of the virus in China.
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Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wis.), a fiscal hawk who has openly criticized House Republicans' reconciliation bill, predicted Sunday that there are enough in his flock to stop the process "until the president gets serious about spending reduction and reducing the deficit."
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A dual US-German citizen has been deported from Israel to the US after allegedly trying to burn down the US embassy in Tel Aviv, American officials say. Read More.
The Trump administration is asking federal agencies to cancel contracts with Harvard University worth about $100 million, a senior administration official said Tuesday, intensifying the president’s clash with the nation’s oldest and wealthiest university. Read More.
Despite the US president talking up the chances of a peace deal, Russia launches the biggest aerial bombardment of the war so far on Ukraine. Three children are among those killed in additional deadly strikes at the weekend, as Volodymyr Zelenskyy calls on allies for more support.
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