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‘Trash, Human Waste And Needles’: Biden Ignores Environmental Crisis Facing Seattle During Earth Day Visit Harry Wilmerding on April 22, 2022 President Joe Biden neglected to mention the rampant homelessness …

Corporate America Wants To Hit Consumers With A Massive Energy Tax Thomas Catenacci on April 22, 2022 Two major Washington, D.C. business groups representing corporations across sectors including the fossil …

By Andrew Hay (Reuters) -Howling winds pushed wildfires towards villages in northern New Mexico on Friday, forcing thousands to flee homes as blazes burned across the parched U.S. Southwest. Over …

By Jan Wolfe (Reuters) -Republican U.S. Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene on Friday told a lawyer for voters seeking to disqualify her from running for re-election that she did not know …

By Pavel Polityuk KYIV/MARIUPOL, Ukraine -Moscow wants to take full control over southern Ukraine, a Russian general said on Friday, a statement Ukraine said gave the lie to Russia’s previous …

By David Shepardson WASHINGTON -The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) apologized late Friday for failing to provide advance notification to the U.S. Capitol Police of a small airplane flight that prompted …

WASHINGTON -President Joe Biden intends to nominate career diplomat Michael Ratney to be U.S. ambassador to Saudi Arabia, the White House said on Friday, amid strained relations between Washington and …

By David Morgan WASHINGTON -Congressman Kevin McCarthy, the top Republican in the U.S. House of Representatives, came under fire from some of his fellow party members, after an audio recording …

By Jenna Zucker TORONTO – Canada attracted more than one million travelers in a week for the first time since the pandemic, government data showed on Friday, as easing of …

By Christine Kiernan and Aleksandra Michalska NEW YORK – Central Park, New York City’s 843-acre green lung created in 1858, is now a climate change laboratory that researchers hope will …

WASHINGTON – U.S. President Joe Biden took an unusually harsh swipe at his Republican opponents during Earth Day remarks on Friday, calling their party the “MAGA party,” a reference to …

By Jonathan Allen (Reuters) – Several voting rights groups filed a lawsuit on Friday challenging Florida’s new congressional map, saying it unfairly diluted the voting power of Black residents to …

By Layli Foroudi and Elizabeth Pineau AUXERRE, France -French President Emmanuel Macron and far-right challenger Marine Le Pen made final appeals on Friday to undecided voters weighing fears of what …

By Dave Graham MEXICO CITY -Mexican officials are concerned the repeal of a measure adopted under the Trump administration to tighten the U.S. border will encourage a spike in migration …

By Jason Lange WASHINGTON – Most Americans support a flexible approach to the lingering COVID-19 pandemic, with cities reimposing mask mandates when cases surge, even as a growing number are …

(Reuters) – COVID-19 was the third leading cause of death in the United States for the second year in a row in 2021, with death rates rising for most age …

By Jeff Mason and Trevor Hunnicutt SEATTLE -U.S. President Joe Biden marked Earth Day on Friday with a speech promoting a new effort to protect old-growth forests as he visits …

By Brenda Goh and Martin Quin Pollard SHANGHAI -Stiffening resolve after three weeks of strict lockdown, authorities warned Shanghai’s 25 million frazzled residents on Friday that their purgatory would go …

By Kirsty Needham, David Brunnstrom and Michael Martina SYDNEY/WASHINGTON -A senior-level U.S. delegation met the Solomon Islands’ leader on Friday and warned that Washington would have “significant concerns and respond …

WASHINGTON – Donald Trump’s former chief of staff Mark Meadows, who echoed the Republican former president’s false claims of widespread fraud in the 2020 election, was registered to vote in …

By James Oliphant CORTLAND, Ohio – Josh Mandel, a leading contender to win the nomination in the U.S. Senate Republican primary battle in Ohio, expressed confidence this week that victory …

By Roselle Chen NEW YORK – The famous “Washington Crossing the Delaware” painting, which hung in the White House from the 1970s to 2014, is coming up for auction next …

By Asif Shahzad ISLAMABAD – Pakistan’s National Security Council, a body of top civil and military leaders, on Friday rejected ousted Prime Minister Imran Khan’s accusations that United States had …

WASHINGTON – President Donald Trump acknowledged “some responsibility” for what happened the day of the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol, House Republican Leader Kevin McCarthy told Republican …