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Thursday marks the formal end of the federal government's COVID-19 public health emergency, three years after it was first declared. The novel coronavirus started a pandemic that killed 1.1 million Americans, and sickened millions more. Today, deaths and hospitalizations are at record lows, and much of the public has moved on. But the virus is...

Former President Trump has appealed the jury’s verdict that found him liable for sexually abusing and defaming E. Jean Carroll. A nine-member jury on Tuesday ordered Trump to pay Carroll $5 million in damages after siding with the writer in her lawsuit. Trump’s attorneys filed a notice of appeal with the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court...

Story at a glance Colorado, North Carolina and Georgia are the states where people need a lawyer the most, according to a new study. The study was conducted by lawyers at The Patel Firm, a Texas-based personal injury law firm, and ranks each state based on the average monthly search volume for lawyers per 100,000...

Former President Trump's town hall event with CNN was a major ratings boost for the network on Wednesday. The hourlong event, broadcast in prime time and moderated by anchor Kaitlan Collins, netted 3.1 million viewers, according to preliminary Nielsen Media Research data. That figure represents more than three times the number of viewers CNN has...

The White House has postponed a meeting on debt ceiling negotiations between President Biden and congressional leaders that was scheduled for Friday to allow staff-level talks to continue. “Staff will continue working and all the principals agreed to meet early next week,” a White House official said. A House GOP source also confirmed the postponement...

Rep. George Santos (R-N.Y.) on Thursday voted for a bill that seeks to crack down on unemployment benefit fraud — the same crime he was charged with one day earlier. The legislation — which passed in a 230-200 vote —  calls for incentivizing states to recover fraudulently paid unemployment benefits. It came to the floor the day after Santos...

Biden national security adviser Jake Sullivan met with top Chinese official Wang Yi in Vienna this week to move beyond the Chinese spy balloon incident and reestablish communication. The meetings between Sullivan and Yi, which took place Wednesday and Thursday, were the highest level of engagement with China since the surveillance balloon traversed the United...

Twitter CEO Elon Musk said he has hired a new chief executive to replace him overseeing the social media platform, months after he initially said he would step down from the role. Musk tweeted Thursday that he has hired a new CEO for Twitter who will start in about six weeks. He did not name...

Leaders from both parties for decades have kicked the can of federal deficits down the road. The Simpson-Bowles recommendations from 2010 — widely endorsed by responsible observers — were never seriously considered either by President Obama or by Republican leadership. Then huge COVID-19 subsidies came along, and the fiscal road now faces a dead end. Unless the deficits are dramatically reduced, Social Security payouts will risk cuts of around 25 percent within a decade. But, to politicians, altering... Читать дальше...

West Virginia University (WVU) announced that its men’s basketball coach, Bob Huggins, has accepted a pay cut from his annual salary among other punishments in the wake of his use of an anti-gay slur during a radio show appearance, which he later apologized for.  In a statement Wednesday, WVU President E. Gordon Gee and athletic...

Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas criticized Texas Gov. Greg Abbott's (R) migrant busing program Thursday, as a new bus arrived outside of Vice President Harris's residence ahead of Title 42's expiration. "It is a both sad and tragic day when a government official uses migrants as a pawn for political purposes,” Mayorkas said at a...

Two men who pleaded guilty to cheating in a walleye fishing tournament on Lake Erie appeared in court Thursday for sentencing.

Two cases of drug-resistant ringworm infections were reported in New York City, the first such cases in the U.S., the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) announced on Thursday. The infection, which is highly contagious, was present in two patients in the city who did not improve with typical treatments. One, a 28-year-old woman, developed a...

The Biden administration announced it is providing more than $830 million to help make low-income housing energy efficient using funds from the Inflation Reduction Act that passed last year.  The White House said in a release on Thursday that the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) is making the money available through a funding...

The Pentagon’s top two officials on Thursday warned lawmakers that a default on the nation’s debt would put troops’ pay in danger and benefit China.  Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin told the Senate Appropriations defense subcommittee that busting the debt ceiling would put U.S. reputation at “substantial risk” in the world. “There’s just a number of...

A Delaware judge on Wednesday rejected Facebook’s bid to dismiss a lawsuit brought by shareholders over the company’s alleged failures to protect the privacy of users’ data, according to The Associated Press. Vice Chancellor J. Travis Laster found that it would have been futile for the shareholders in the case to first bring the issue...

The Center for Biological Diversity filed a lawsuit Thursday accusing a California regulator of approving new oil and gas wells without conducting sufficient environmental review. The wells in question — approved by the California Geologic Energy Management Division (CalGEM) — are located in Los Angeles and San Luis Obispo counties, in close proximity to homes, beaches...

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) is pushing back on CNN CEO Chris Licht's defense of the network's handling of a town hall event with former President Trump this week. “'Making news' is not the same as covering news. When one wishes to become a participant in events (ie. “making” news), they become the story and sacrifice...

The U.S. Senate passed two Congressional Review Act (CRA) resolutions Thursday undoing Biden administration rules under the Endangered Species Act (ESA). In a 51-49 vote, the chamber passed a resolution sponsored by Sen. Cynthia Lummis (R-Wyo.), rescinding a Biden regulation expanding the ESA’s definition of a species’ critical habitat. The Trump administration had tightened the...

Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) said he plans to call FBI Director Christopher Wray on Thursday after the agency rebuffed a subpoena from the House Oversight Committee for a document that GOP lawmakers claim lays out an “alleged criminal scheme” involving President Biden and a foreign national. McCarthy’s comments came one day after Christopher Dunham, the...

The Justice Department is backing a Christian organization that feeds people who are homeless in a California city that has denied the group an occupancy certificate. The Department of Justice (DOJ) filed a statement of interest in U.S. District Court for the Central District of California, saying that the distribution of food to homeless people...

Sen. Chris Coons (D-Del.) joined a chorus of Democratic voices bashing former President Trump for his town hall on CNN on Wednesday, saying he had “a little bit of PTSD watching that last night.” “As someone who was at the Cleveland presidential debate where President Trump ran right over Chris Wallace… I had a little...

The World Health Organization (WHO) has declared that mpox is no longer a global public health emergency as cases of the disease have fallen sharply in recent months. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, the director general of WHO, said at a media briefing on Thursday that the agency's emergency committee recommended to him the day before that...

Peloton Interactive is recalling about 2.2 million of its exercise bikes because users can fall and get injured, the Consumer Product Safety Commission announced Thursday.

These convictions serve the cause of justice, but as last Saturday’s Texas shopping mall shooting suggests, the threat of domestic extremism remains.