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Russia on Thursday threatened “consequences” for the United States if it delivers missile systems to Ukraine, authorities in Tehran have sentenced an Iranian soccer player to death, retail sales dropped last month at the start of the holiday shopping season, Senate lawmakers have passed a bill that would ban TikTok on all government devices, the Biden administration is suing Arizona, the death toll in the Congo continues to rise from widespread floods and landslides
The crisis on the southern border is intensifying, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy pressed Western leaders to provide more advanced weapons, top officials in Europe sounded alarms about possible energy shortages next year, the man charged with building the Pan Am bomb faced a judge in a U.S. federal court, Peru’s new president gave into protesters’ demands, Iran has executed a second prisoner
British defense officials are warning that Russia is looking to buy missiles from Iran, debate continues over the recent prisoner swap that brought WNBA basketball star Brittany Griner home from Russia, the man accused of making the bomb that brought down Pan Am Flight 103 in 1988 has been taken into U.S. custody, NASA’s Orion capsule returned from the moon Sunday, Democrats reacted Sunday to Sen. Kyrsten Sinema’s announcement that she’s leaving their party
French President Emmanuel Macron is visiting the U.S., the Senate passed a bill that binds railway workers to their jobs, the Supreme Court will hear arguments about President Joe Biden’s student loan debt cancellation program early next year, arguments in the Trump Organization’s financial fraud trial in New York concluded, lava is slowly approaching a major thoroughfare on Hawaii’s Big Island, police in Spain are responding to a series of package bombs at embassies
The House voted today to block a railway strike, a House committee can now access some of former President Donald Trump’s tax returns, Congressman Hakeem Jeffries will succeed Nancy Pelosi, former Chinese President Jiang Zemin died, stocks pushed higher yesterday on news of a looming interest rate hike, the Justice Department charged more than 700 people in its January 6th investigation
The Senate passed the so-called Respect for Marriage Act, the Biden administration defended a blocked immigration policy at the Supreme Court, a jury has convicted the leader of the Oath Keepers of seditious conspiracy, China is still isolating people in their homes because of COVID-19, the U.S. men’s national soccer team is advancing past the first round of the World Cup, a top Qatari official involved in organizing the World Cup indicated that 10 times more workers may have died during the preparations, congress is mulling legislation to block a railroad strike
People around the world are demonstrating in solidarity with Chinese protesters, soaring prices have triggered an economic crisis in Ghana, an Iranian general says possibly over 300 people have died in the country’s protests, six of Arizona’s 15 counties had to decide yesterday whether to certify the 2022 election results, the 19-year-old suspect in a racially motivated mass shooting has pleaded guilty, more than 2 million people in Houston spent the day buying or boiling water to use for cooking, drinking, and bathing, President Joe Biden is calling on Congress to intervene to stop a railroad strike
Chinese citizens are protesting ongoing COVID-19 lockdowns, Iran’s oppressive regime remains under fire from protesters, weather forecasts in the U.S. call for heavy snow in the Northwest and Upper Plains, Americans officially kicked off the holiday shopping season this weekend, a deadly landslide in Italy buried families in mud after heavy rains, eighties pop icon Irene Cara has died
Western allies are clashing with Russia after a deadly missile strike in a Polish border town, lawmakers are set to repeal the 1996 Defense of Marriage Act, a federal appeals court won’t reconsider its ruling temporarily blocking Arkansas from enforcing its ban on “gender-affirming” procedures on children, Senate GOP Leader Mitch McConnell will remain the Senate’s top Republican, Border Patrol officials say lifting Title 42 restrictions could make the border crisis worse, Texas Governor Greg Abbott sent a charter bus of migrants to Philadelphia
A jury refused to sentence Nikolas Cruz to death, Social Security benefits are going up by nearly 9 percent, families in Connecticut are mourning the loss of two police officers in a shootout, the House Select Committee on January 6th will subpoena former President Donald Trump to testify, the Labor Department’s inflation report showed overall consumer prices rose by 8.2 percent in September year over year, the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe designated Russia as a terrorist state
