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Review of domestic terror
President Joe Biden has directed law enforcement and intelligence officials in his administration to study the threat of domestic violent extremism in the...
Lockdown hits Hong Kong
Thousands of Hong Kong residents were locked down Saturday in an unprecedented move to contain a worsening outbreak in the city, authorities said. Hong Kong has...
Italy cracks down on TikTok
Italy’s data protection authority said Friday it was imposing an immediate block on TikTok’s access to data for any user whose age has not been...
Nuke treaty welcomed
The Kremlin on Friday welcomed U.S. President Joe Biden’s proposal to extend the last remaining nuclear arms control treaty between the two countries,...
Inaugural violence threat
An Illinois man was ordered held without bond Thursday for allegedly threatening the lives of President Joe Biden and other Democrats before this week's...
Dissolve the NRA?
A New York judge on Thursday denied the National Rifle Association’s bid to throw out a state lawsuit that seeks to put the powerful gun advocacy group...
Daily highs for cases
Mexico posted new one-day highs for the pandemic Thursday, with 22,339 newly confirmed coronavirus infections and 1,803 deaths from COVID-19 recorded for the...
Fauci unleashed
Dr. Anthony Fauci is back. In truth, the nation’s leading infectious-diseases expert never really went away. But after enduring nearly a year of darts and...
Biden stops border wall
In the days before Joe Biden became president, construction crews worked quickly to finish Donald Trump’s wall at an iconic cross-border park overlooking...
Cruz, Hawley investigation
Seven Democratic senators on Thursday asked the Senate Ethics Committee to investigate the actions of Republican Sens. Ted Cruz and Josh Hawley “to fully...
Inaugural song questioned
On the first day of Joe Biden's presidency, Native Americans had reason to celebrate. Biden halted construction of the border wall that threatened to...
Giuliani under fire
A lawyers' group filed an ethics complaint against Rudy Giuliani with New York's courts, calling for him to be investigated and his law license...
5 killed at vaccine plant
At least five people were killed in a fire that broke out Thursday at a building under construction at Serum Institute of India, the world’s largest...
Shanghai outbreak
Shanghai has imposed lockdowns on two of China's best-known hospitals after they were linked to new coronavirus cases. Outpatient services have been...
Biden returns U.S. to WHO
The United States will resume funding for the World Health Organization and join its consortium aimed at sharing coronavirus vaccines fairly around the globe,...
Rollout moved too fast
Public health experts Thursday blamed COVID-19 vaccine shortages around the U.S. in part on the Trump administration’s push to get states to vastly expand...
Extension of nuke treaty?
President Joe Biden has proposed to Russia a five-year extension of a nuclear arms treaty that is otherwise set to expire in February, the White House said...
Impeachment trial pushed?
Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell is proposing to push back the start of Donald Trump's impeachment trial to February to give the former president...
EU leaders call on Russia
The European Union used a video summit of its 27 leaders Thursday to call on Russia to immediately release opposition leader Alexei Navalny and make sure that...
Bombings rock Baghdad
Twin suicide bombings ripped through a busy market in the Iraqi capital Thursday, killing at least 32 people and wounding dozens, officials said. The rare...