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Federal Judge Blocks Biden From Ending Trump-Era Border Policy Jennie Taer on May 20, 2022 A federal judge ruled Friday that the Biden administration’s move to end Title 42, the …

SNEAD: 2020’s Nightmare Election Process Has Come Back To Haunt Pennsylvania. Here’s What Needs To Change Jason Snead on May 20, 2022 Once again, the nation is waiting on Pennsylvania …

Biden’s Interior Secretary Was Forced To Answer Senators’ Energy Questions. It Didn’t Go Well Thomas Catenacci on May 20, 2022 Interior Secretary Deb Haaland struggled to explain administration energy policy …

Shooting At Louisiana High School Graduation Injures Three Bryan Babb on May 20, 2022 A gunman opened fire during a high school graduation in Louisiana Thursday, injuring three attendees as …

WASHINGTON – Rudy Giuliani, who served as former U.S. President Donald Trump’s personal attorney, met for more than nine hours on Friday with the House committee investigating the Jan. 6, …

By Andrew Hay TAOS, N.M. – The U.S. Forest Service (USFS) on Friday called a temporary nationwide halt to controlled burns meant to reduce fire risk after the agency accidentally …

By Jennifer Rigby and Natalie Grover LONDON – The World Health Organization was holding an emergency meeting on Friday to discuss the recent outbreak of monkeypox, a viral infection more …

(Reuters) – Pentagon spokesperson John Kirby will become the White House’s National Security Council Coordinator for Strategic Communications, the White House said in a statement on Friday. “In this role, …

(Reuters) -The world’s most prestigious tennis tournament was on Friday set on a collision course with the sport’s global governing bodies after Wimbledon had its ranking points stripped by the …

By Luc Cohen NEW YORK -Two sons of former Panamanian President Ricardo Martinelli were sentenced to three-year prison terms on Friday in a U.S. court for helping launder millions of …

(Reuters) – Chicago police arrested a suspect in a fatal shooting that escalated from a fight outside a fast food restaurant and spilled on to a nearby train line, authorities …

By Brad Brooks (Reuters) – U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi can no longer take communion because she supports abortion rights and also publicly invokes her Catholic faith, the archbishop of …

By Jan Wolfe WASHINGTON – Larry Ellison, billionaire chairman and co-founder of Oracle Corp, participated shortly after the November 2020 U.S. presidential election in a phone call focused on strategies …

By Tyler Clifford BUFFALO, N.Y. -Nearly a week after an avowed white supremist killed 10 Black people at a western New York supermarket, friends and family of Heyward Patterson gathered …

By Dave Sherwood and Matt Spetalnick HAVANA/WASHINGTON -Biden administration officials are considering inviting a Cuban representative to the U.S.-hosted Summit of the Americas, a person familiar with the matter said, …

By Natalia Zinets and Tom Balmforth KYIV -The last Ukrainian forces holed up in Mariupol’s smashed Azovstal steelworks surrendered on Friday, Russia’s defense ministry said, ending the most destructive siege …

By Nathan Layne MARKEY TOWNSHIP, Michigan – The top election official in this small Michigan town said she received an unusual call in March last year. A Republican state lawmaker …

(Reuters) -Sanofi won expanded U.S. approval for its best-selling Dupixent injection to treat an allergic inflammation of the esophagus, the Food and Drug Administration said on Friday. There are more …

By Deena Beasley (Reuters) – Infection with adenovirus, a common childhood virus, is the leading hypothesis for recent cases of severe hepatitis of unknown origin in children that have led …

By Devjyot Ghoshal and Uditha Jayasinghe COLOMBO – Thousands of people queued for cooking gas and petrol in Sri Lanka’s commercial capital on Friday and Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe warned …

By Trevor Hunnicutt and Josh Smith PYEONGTAEK, South Korea -Joe Biden’s first stop on his inaugural trip to Asia as U.S. president on Friday was a massive Samsung Electronics semiconductor …

By Keith Coffman and Rich McKay DENVER -A sizzling heat wave will blanket a wide swath of the Eastern United States this weekend, pushing temperatures in New York and Boston …

WASHINGTON – The U.S. Justice Department will release $5 million for states to establish hotlines to report hate crime, U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland said on Friday, as a mass …

WASHINGTON -Additional cases of monkeypox are likely to be detected in the United States but the risk to the general public is low at this time, a senior U.S. administration …