The Associated Press
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The Justice Department is suing longtime Las Vegas casino mogul Steve Wynn to compel him to register as a foreign agent because of lobbying work he performed at the behest of the Chinese government during the Trump administration.
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Rep. Bennie Thompson, D-Miss., the committee’s chairman, said Tuesday that the Justice Department had made the request as part of its ongoing criminal investigation into the attack. But he said it was “premature” for the committee to share its work at this point because the panel’s probe is ongoing.
Updated: 53 minutes ago
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Musk earlier tweeted that his plan to buy Twitter was on hold as he tried to pinpoint the number of fake accounts on the social media platform.
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A judge has suspended Michigan’s dormant ban on abortion, saying it likely violates the state constitution.
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The funding would increase FDA staffing focused on the formula shortage to boost inspections, prevent fraudulent products from getting onto store shelves and acquire better data on the marketplace, lawmakers said.
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House investigators are unlikely to call former President Donald Trump to testify about his role in the Jan. 6, 2021 insurrection.
Updated: 3 hours ago
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The Fed’s increases in its benchmark short-term rate typically lead, in turn, to higher borrowing costs for consumers and businesses, including for mortgages, auto loans and credit cards.
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A federal judge on Tuesday struck down Tennessee’s first-of-its-kind law requiring businesses to post special signs if they allow transgender people to use the bathroom of their choice.
Updated: 4 hours ago
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Far fewer Americans said “I do” during the first year of the pandemic when wedding plans were upended, a new report finds.
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The three known living survivors of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre are receiving a $1 million donation from a New York philanthropic organization.
Updated: 5 hours ago
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Rock and Roll Hall of Famer Jerry Lee Lewis, the late country singer Keith Whitley and music executive Joe Galante will join the Country Music Hall of Fame.
Updated: 8 hours ago
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Ronald Moultrie, the undersecretary of defense for intelligence, said the Pentagon was also trying to destigmatize the issue and encourage pilots and other military personnel to report anything unusual they see.
Updated: 12 hours ago
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The White House announced Tuesday that U.S. households can request an additional eight free at-home tests to be shipped by the U.S. Postal Service.
Updated: 12 hours ago
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The referral of Sen. Wendy Rogers of Flagstaff to the Ethics Committee was in lieu of the immediate expulsion that Democratic lawmakers were planning, GOP Majority Leader Rick Gray said. Due process considerations require no less than an ethics investigation, he said.
Updated: 12 hours ago
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Two of four Indiana teenagers pulled from the waters off a Lake Michigan beach in southwestern Michigan have died
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The Biden administration announced Monday that it will expand flights to Cuba, take steps to loosen restrictions on U.S. travelers to the island, and lift Trump-era restrictions on remittances that immigrants can send to people on the island.
Updated: May. 16, 2022 at 7:43 PM EDT
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Signs of Republican resistance are mounting over a $40 billion aid package to Ukraine.
Updated: May. 16, 2022 at 7:13 PM EDT
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A clampdown on Chicago teens’ access to a popular downtown park and an earlier weekend curfew following the fatal shooting of a teenager has revived longstanding accusations that City Hall cares more about the city’s sparkling lakefront and downtown over neighborhoods where hundreds have been killed or hurt by gun violence.
Updated: May. 16, 2022 at 6:53 PM EDT
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Karine Jean-Pierre is crediting “barrier-breaking people” who came before her for making it possible for a Black, gay, immigrant woman like herself to hold one of the most high-profile jobs in American government.
Updated: May. 16, 2022 at 6:44 PM EDT
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Tesla CEO Elon Musk has given the strongest hint yet that he would like to pay less for Twitter than his $44 billion offer made last month.
Updated: May. 16, 2022 at 6:14 PM EDT
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President Joe Biden is thanking Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis for his country’s “moral leadership” in the aftermath of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
Updated: May. 16, 2022 at 5:23 PM EDT
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Starbucks said Monday it will pay the travel expenses for U.S. employees to access abortion and gender-confirmation procedures if those services aren’t available within 100 miles of a worker’s home.
Updated: May. 16, 2022 at 2:47 PM EDT
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A group of voters who challenged U.S. Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene’s eligibility to run for reelection said Monday they have filed an appeal of the Georgia secretary of state’s decision that she can appear on the ballot.
Updated: May. 16, 2022 at 1:49 PM EDT
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The Columbian newspaper reports police in Vancouver uncovered footage of the 29-year-old man peeing into a bag of milkshake mix as they were executing a search warrant on his phone as part of a child pornography investigation.
Updated: May. 16, 2022 at 1:41 PM EDT
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Ely Hydes said the incident occurred May 9, but the bridge still was open until The Detroit News reached out to the state Transportation Department on Sunday.
Updated: May. 16, 2022 at 1:36 PM EDT
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The Voyager Scholarship will grant $50,000 to rising juniors to cover tuition costs over two years as well as a $10,000 grant and Airbnb credit to fund a summer experience designed by the student.
Updated: May. 16, 2022 at 11:16 AM EDT
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The U.S. death toll from COVID-19 has hit 1 million, less than 2 1/2 years into the outbreak.
Updated: May. 16, 2022 at 8:26 AM EDT
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The Biden administration is publicly heralding that achievement as this year’s midterm politics intensify.
Updated: May. 16, 2022 at 7:59 AM EDT
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Crews continue fighting a wildfire in a heavily forested area of northern Michigan that prompted the evacuation of 13 people from a hunting and fishing camp
Updated: May. 16, 2022 at 7:55 AM EDT
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The Detroit Lions signed defensive end Aidan Hutchinson to a $35.7 million, four-year contract with a team option for a fifth season on Friday
Updated: May. 16, 2022 at 1:03 AM EDT
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Olivia Rodrigo and Kanye West, known as Ye, took home the most awards with six during an earlier non-televised ceremony.
Updated: May. 15, 2022 at 11:42 PM EDT
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Police say by the time they arrived on the scene the parishioners had the suspect hog-tied and in custody.
Updated: May. 15, 2022 at 11:07 PM EDT
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Police said that a 17-year-old was taken into custody after the shooting and a weapon was found on the teen. Charges are pending.
Updated: May. 15, 2022 at 9:20 PM EDT
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The victims of Saturday's grocery store shooting in Buffalo, New York, include a retired police officer and a church deacon.
Updated: May. 15, 2022 at 7:35 PM EDT
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President Joe Biden is citing the Buffalo shootings in calling for national unity as a remedy for “the hate that remains a stain on the soul of America."
Updated: May. 15, 2022 at 6:28 PM EDT
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The shootings late Saturday and early Sunday followed a night of violence in which 21 people were shot.
Updated: May. 15, 2022 at 5:45 PM EDT
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Police in Texas said two are dead and three are injured after a shooting at a Houston flea market.
Updated: May. 15, 2022 at 1:07 AM EDT
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Police reported the alleged shooter is in custody.
Updated: May. 14, 2022 at 11:56 PM EDT
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Police say the driver struck a woman walking her dog and kept going, dragging her more than 8 miles to the parking lot of a hotel.
Updated: May. 14, 2022 at 10:46 PM EDT
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The trial of 21-year-old Russian Sgt. Vadim Shyshimarin is the first of dozens of war crimes cases that Ukraine’s top prosecutor says her office is pursuing.
Updated: May. 14, 2022 at 10:28 PM EDT
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Ukrainian band Kalush Orchestra won the Eurovision Song Contest in the early hours of Sunday in a clear show of popular support for the war-ravaged nation that went beyond music.
Updated: May. 14, 2022 at 8:56 PM EDT
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More than 380 events were set from Maine to Hawaii, with the largest gatherings expected in Los Angeles, Chicago, New York and other big cities, organizers said.
Updated: May. 14, 2022 at 8:06 PM EDT
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A video posted on Zelenskyy’s Telegram account showed McConnell, R-Ky., and Sens. Susan Collins of Maine, John Barrasso of Wyoming and John Cornyn of Texas greeting him in the capital.
Updated: May. 14, 2022 at 5:03 PM EDT
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A small plane has crashed on a bridge near Miami, striking an SUV and bursting into flames.
Updated: May. 14, 2022 at 2:26 PM EDT
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None of the injuries from either shooting Friday night were believed to be life-threatening.
Updated: May. 14, 2022 at 1:15 PM EDT
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The conservative Thomas described the leak as an unthinkable breach of trust.
Updated: May. 14, 2022 at 12:00 PM EDT
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A federal judge has blocked part of an Alabama law that makes it a felony to give gender-affirming puberty blockers and hormones to transgender minors.
Updated: May. 14, 2022 at 12:44 AM EDT
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Four cadets at the Air Force Academy may not graduate or be commissioned as military officers later this month because they have refused the COVID-19 vaccine, and they may be required to pay back thousands of dollars in tuition costs, according to Air Force officials.
Updated: May. 14, 2022 at 12:17 AM EDT
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The Jan. 6 committee’s remarkable decision to subpoena GOP Leader Kevin McCarthy and four other sitting members of Congress over the insurrection at the Capitol is as unprecedented as the deadly riot itself.
Updated: May. 14, 2022 at 12:01 AM EDT
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Attorneys for Young Thug, the Atlanta rapper arrested under an indictment accusing him of co-founding a violent street gang, have filed an emergency motion seeking to have him granted bond.