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After a seven-year wait, NASA scientists on Tuesday finally pried open a space probe carrying the largest asteroid samples ever brought back to Earth, finding black debris.Researchers "found black dust and debris on the avionics deck of the Osiris-Rex science canister when the initial lid was r...
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The United States said Tuesday it would halt assistance to Gabon after the military took charge last month."The US government is pausing certain foreign assistance programs benefiting the government of Gabon while we evaluate the unconstitutional intervention by members of the country's mil...
US Vice President Kamala Harris took on a new role Friday fighting gun violence, a job likely to give her more visibility ahead of the 2024 election.The 58-year-old Democrat will head up the new White House Office of Gun Violence Prevention, which will provide coordination on the issue but largely l...
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The US labor market is remarkably solid despite aggressive interest rate hikes to fight inflation and a recent rise in unemployment, but analysts warn that the central bank risks pushing too far.The Federal Reserve has lifted the benchmark lending rate 11 times since March last year, with consumer i...
White House National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan met with Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi over the weekend, officials said Sunday, in the latest effort to ease tensions between the superpowers.Sullivan and Wang met in the Mediterranean island nation of Malta on Saturday and Sunday, according to ...
Mexico on Friday extradited the son of Sinaloa Cartel kingpin Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman to the United States to face narcotics charges, US Attorney General Merrick Garland said.Ovidio Guzman Lopez, also known as "El Raton" or "The Mouse," was indicted earlier this year ...
A top Cuban envoy held a rare meeting in Washington with US officials, but made no apparent progress on getting the island off a terrorism blacklist, diplomats said Thursday.Cuban Deputy Foreign Minister Carlos Fernandez de Cossio met this week with the top officials for Latin America at the State D...
US President Joe Biden will address the United Nations General Assembly in New York next week and discuss international security "threats" with other world leaders, the White House said Tuesday.Russia's war in Ukraine is again expected to dominate the annual UN forum, where nations las...
Sudan’s warring parties must end their “unconscionable war” through dialogue, a senior US diplomat urged at a press briefing here on Tuesday, highlighting the acute suffering of refugees during a recent visit to camps at the border between Chad and Sudan.Linda Thomas-Greenfield, th...
The Covid-19 pandemic caused a sharp slowdown in the fight to end child poverty, with 333 million children still living in extreme poverty, according to a report published Wednesday.The report from the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) and the World Bank found that the pandemic led to the ...
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A landmark case pitting the US government against Google over the dominance of the company's world-dominating search engine began in a Washington courtroom on Tuesday."This case is about the future of the internet and whether Google will ever face meaningful competition in search," sai...
US President Joe Biden's son Hunter will be charged before the end of September with a federal firearm offense after his plea deal went sour, the prosecutor said Wednesday in a court filing.Special Counsel David Weiss, who has investigated the president's son for five years, said a grand jur...
US President Joe Biden's administration moved Thursday to close loopholes that allow people to sell guns without a dealer license, which would require them to perform background checks on purchasers.The Justice Department released detailed rules that follow the Biden-backed Safer Communities Act...
A judge on Monday set March 4, 2024 for former president Donald Trump's election subversion conspiracy trial -- placing one of the biggest criminal cases in American history at the height of the next White House race.The date -- a full two years before the defense team's proposal -- is ...
Air pollution is more dangerous to the health of the average person on planet Earth than smoking or alcohol, with the threat worsening in its global epicenter South Asia even as China fast improves, a study showed Tuesday.Yet the level of funding set aside to confront the challenge is a fr...
The Pentagon said Thursday it would begin training Ukrainian F-16 pilots in the United States starting next month so they can use the advanced aircraft against Russian forces.Ukraine has long sought these sophisticated fighter jets so as to better fight the Russian invasion, and is now engaged in a ...
Donald Trump attacked his rivals for the 2024 Republican presidential nomination and Democrat Joe Biden in an interview aired on Wednesday as counter-programming to his party's first primary debate.Trump skipped the debate in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, and opted instead to do an interview with Tucker...
US President Joe Biden on Wednesday said he was "not surprised" at news that Yevgeny Prigozhin, head of the Wagner mercenary group, may have died in a plane crash in Russia."I don't know for a fact what happened, but I'm not surprised," Biden said."There's not mu...
Mortgage rates in the United States have surged to the highest since 2002, said a home loan finance company Thursday, adding pressure to buyers who are already grappling with high costs and low inventory.The popular 30-year fixed-rate mortgage reached 7.09 percent this week, said Freddie Mac in a st...
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