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By Patricia Zengerle and Jan Wolfe WASHINGTON – The U.S. Congress’s official probe into the Jan. 6, 2021, assault on the Capitol by Donald Trump’s supporters plans to hold public …

By Yereth Rosen ANCHORAGE, Alaska -The Biden administration on Monday overturned a controversial Trump-era policy that would have opened new swathes of Arctic Alaska to oil development. The Bureau of …

By Kanishka Singh (Reuters) – Canada’s Ryerson University has changed its name to Toronto Metropolitan University after concerns over of the institution’s namesake, Egerton Ryerson, who was one of the …

By Timothy Gardner WASHINGTON -Three Democratic U.S. lawmakers asked the head of ConocoPhillips for more information about a month-old natural gas leak from an oilfield in northern Alaska and implications …

By Paresh Dave OAKLAND, Calif. -A major U.S. government contractor of identity verification technology that is under investigation by Congress has fired 39 employees over the past week for inappropriate …

By Kanishka Singh WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Bernie Sanders on Tuesday called for President Joe Biden to issue an executive order to cut off federal contracts to Amazon.com Inc until …

By Akhtar Soomro and Asif Shahzad KARACHI, Pakistan -A suspected female suicide bomber killed three Chinese teachers in Karachi on Tuesday, police and officials said, drawing strong condemnation from Beijing, …

By Ahmed Aboulenein WASHINGTON -U.S. President Joe Biden’s administration is aiming to expand access to COVID-19 oral antiviral treatments like Pfizer Inc’s Paxlovid by doubling the number of locations at …

(Reuters) -Pfizer Inc and its partner BioNTech SE said on Tuesday that they had submitted an application to the U.S. health regulator for the authorization of a booster dose of …

By Moira Warburton WASHINGTON – Top U.S. House Republican Kevin McCarthy told colleagues he feared members of his party, including Representatives Matt Gaetz and Mo Brooks, would put other lawmakers …

By David Morgan (Reuters) -Federal Reserve Governor Lael Brainard won confirmation in the U.S. Senate on Tuesday to be the U.S. central bank’s next vice chair, a week ahead of …

By Joanna Plucinska and Marek Strzelecki WARSAW -Russian energy giant Gazprom has told Poland and Bulgaria it will halt gas supplies from Wednesday, in a major escalation of Russia’s broader …

By Jason Lange WASHINGTON – Seventy-three percent of Americans support U.S. efforts to supply Ukraine with weapons, the highest level of support since Russia invaded its neighbor in February, according …

WASHINGTON -U.S. President Joe Biden’s deputy national security adviser, Daleep Singh, a key architect of global sanctions against Russia, plans to take an extended leave of absence in the near …

By Richard Cowan and David Shepardson WASHINGTON -U.S. Senate Democratic leader Chuck Schumer said on Tuesday that he hoped Twitter did not become a “darker” place under the ownership of …

By Josh Smith and Hyonhee Shin SEOUL -North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has pledged to speed up development of his country’s nuclear arsenal while overseeing a huge military parade …

By Tom Balmforth and Parniyan Zemaryalai KYIV – As Russian forces tightened their siege of Mariupol and missiles rained down, Mykhailo Puryshev drove into the city six times last month …

By Marek Strzelecki, Phil Stewart and Pavel Polityuk WARSAW/ RAMSTEIN AIR BASE, Germany/KYIV – Kyiv accused Russia of blackmailing Europe by cutting off gas supplies to Poland and Bulgaria as …

By Moira Warburton and David Shepardson WASHINGTON -Republican U.S. Representative Madison Cawthorn has been cited by police for possessing a gun at an airport in Charlotte, North Carolina, the local …

By Ted Hesson WASHINGTON -The Biden administration on Tuesday outlined its plan to tackle border security, pushing back against criticism that it is unprepared for a late-May deadline to lift …

By Humeyra Pamuk and Patricia Zengerle WASHINGTON – The influential chairman of the U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee criticized Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Tuesday for failing to condemn …

WASHINGTON – White House COVID-19 response chief Ashish Jha said on Tuesday that it’s hard to ensure no one gets COVID – including U.S. President Joe Biden – and that …

By Brad Brooks LUBBOCK, Texas – Citizens decrying censorship have filed a lawsuit against county officials in central Texas they say have trampled on their First Amendment rights by banning …