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By Alexandra Alper and David Shepardson WASHINGTON -A bipartisan group of U.S. senators introduced legislation on Thursday that would give the Biden administration the power to block exports of U.S. …

By Steve Keating (Reuters) – There are no perfect solutions to the transgender sport issue, the head of the United States Olympic Paralympic Committee (USOPC) said on Thursday, adding that …

By Diane Bartz WASHINGTON – A U.S. House of Representatives panel passed a bipartisan online privacy bill on Thursday that aims to limit the collection of personal data, though doubts …

By Manas Mishra (Reuters) -Advisers to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) on Thursday unanimously voted to recommend use of Moderna Inc’s COVID-19 vaccine for children and …

By Jennifer Rigby LONDON -The World Health Organization will decide on Thursday whether to declare monkeypox a global health emergency, stirring criticism from leading African scientists who say it has …

By Kanishka Singh WASHINGTON -The United States will cancel $6 billion in student loans for 200,000 borrowers who claimed they were defrauded by their colleges, the administration of U.S. President …

By Nandita Bose WASHINGTON -U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris met a group of seven Democratic attorneys general on Thursday to discuss the defense to a major ruling that could dramatically …

By Luc Cohen NEW YORK – The U.S. congressional committee probing the Jan. 6, 2021, assault on the U.S. Capitol has sought in hearings this month to build a case …

By Nate Raymond (Reuters) -The U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday ruled that Republican lawmakers in North Carolina can intervene in a lawsuit challenging a voter-ID law that they believed the …

WASHINGTON – New York Governor Kathy Hochul at a news conference on Thursday called the U.S. Supreme Court’s ruling on concealed handguns “absolutely shocking” and said she was “sorry this …

(This June 22 story has been refiled to fix a typo in the first sentence) By Sarah N. Lynch WASHINGTON – U.S. prosecutors asked a judge on Wednesday to launch …

By Sharon Bernstein, Gabriella Borter and Brad Brooks (Reuters) – For a Mississippi doctor, it was a glimpse of a fetal arm. For a police officer, it was the treatment …

ISTANBUL -Firefighters battled a wildfire in southwestern Turkey from land and air on Thursday as high temperatures and winds fanned the blaze and dashed hopes it was contained, while authorities …

By Ruma Paul and Zarir Hussain DHAKA/GUWAHATI, India -Authorities in Bangladesh are bracing for the spread of waterborne diseases and racing to get drinking water to people stranded in their …

LONDON -Strikes crippled Britain’s rail network for the second day this week and staff at British Airways voted for a walkout on Thursday amid warnings the country was facing a …

By Daniel Wiessner (Reuters) – California’s top state court has agreed to decide whether employers can be held liable under state law when their workers contract COVID-19 on the job …

By Charlotte Greenfield and Mohammad Yunus Yawar KABUL – A devastating earthquake in eastern Afghanistan, which killed at least 1,000 people and flattened homes in remote villages close to the …

By Mohammad Yunus Yawar and Sayed Hassib GAYAN, Afghanistan -Aid began arriving on Thursday in a remote part of Afghanistan where an earthquake killed 1,000 people, with Taliban officials saying …

By Ahmed Aboulenein WASHINGTON -The United States has already delivered more than 4 million doses of COVID-19 vaccines for children under 5 years old to sites that will administer the …

(Reuters) – Federal prosecutors requested a 25-year prison sentence for former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin for violating George Floyd’s civil rights during his arrest and murder, online court records …

By Valerie Volcovici (Reuters) – Over 2,600 hazardous gas pipeline leaks in the United States caused more than $4 billion in damages and emergency services, killed 122 people, and released …

How The Supreme Court Turned Half Of Oklahoma Into A Lawless Land Jennie Taer on June 22, 2022 A 2020 Supreme Court decision to turn over nearly half of Oklahoma …

Pennsylvania Dem Senate Candidate Sought To Empty State Prisons While In Power, Records Show Gabe Kaminsky on June 22, 2022 The Democratic candidate running for Senate in Pennsylvania, John Fetterman, …

VALLETTA – An American woman who was denied a request for abortion in Malta after suffering the symptoms of a miscarriage, has been allowed to travel to Spain to terminate …

By Daina Beth Solomon MEXICO CITY – Abril, a 22-year-old college student, has a plan if Roe v. Wade is overturned: use encrypted messages, burner phones and international numbers to …