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The United States have lifted sanctions and a travel ban imposed by Donald Trump’s administration on the top prosecutor of the International Criminal Court, calling for a more cooperative relationship, The Guardian reports. The former […]

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President Joe Biden’s search for the Justice Department’s top trust-busting role is being bogged down by ethics concerns, both about candidates who have represented Silicon Valley’s giants and those who have represented critics of the […]

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Noah Green, the suspect who law enforcement sources say rammed his car into two US Capitol Police officers on Friday, posted on social media in the weeks before the attack that he had lost his […]

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An 8-year-old boy accidentally received a COVID-19 vaccine dose in Texas, thanks to “human error,” a report said as quoted by New York Post. The child was recently inoculated at a Dallas County drive-up vaccine […]

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Capitol Police Officer William Evans, who died Friday following a confrontation with a motorist who rammed a barricade and lunged at authorities with a knife, was an 18-year veteran of the Washington department, officials said […]

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One in five residents of the United States has already been fully vaccinated against the novel coronavirus, Director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Rochelle Walensky said during a briefing for foreign journalists, […]

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A Minneapolis homicide investigator testified on Friday that Derek Chauvin used “totally unnecessary” deadly force when kneeling on George Floyd’s neck during an arrest last May that sparked global protests against police brutality, Reuters reports. […]

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National security advisors of the United States, Japan and South Korea reaffirmed their commitment to denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula in a joint statement released by the White House on Friday, TASS reports. US National […]

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President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris both expressed their sympathy to the family and friends of the police officer killed during the attack at the U.S. Capitol on Friday, Newsweek reports. Capitol Police […]

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Police departments across the United States expressed their support for the U.S. Capitol Police after the force lost another one of its members Friday, The Hill reports. The departments shared messages of solidarity on Twitter after it […]

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The Supreme Court turned to its grammar books to deliver a victory for Facebook on Thursday in an under-the-radar case about whether the internet giant had run afoul of a three-decade-old federal law curbing abusive […]

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The White House is trying to craft a series of executive actions for President Joe Biden to sign to try to limit gun violence, hoping they cannot be quickly dismantled in court, according to aides […]

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The U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday cleared the way for the Federal Communication Commission to loosen local media ownership restrictions, handing a victory to broadcasters in a ruling that could facilitate industry consolidation as consumers […]

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President Joe Biden on Wednesday called for a sweeping use of government power to reshape the world’s largest economy and counter China’s rise in a $2 trillion-plus proposal that was met with swift Republican resistance, […]

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