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Nation & World

Published
July 21, 2023

Northeast floods devastate farmers as months of labor, crops swept away

Storms dumped up to 2 months’ worth of rain in a couple of days in parts of the region.
Published
July 20, 2023

New U.S. sanctions are aimed at choking off Russia’s access to battlefield supplies and revenue

The latest sanctions build on those imposed on Russia when the U.S. and other Group of Seven nations rolled out a wave of global actions during a Japan summit in May.
Published
July 20, 2023

Former Trump State Department official convicted for attacking police during Capitol riot

Federico Guillermo Klein was convicted of 12 counts, including 6 charging him with assaulting, resisting or impeding police officers.
Published
July 20, 2023

Senate committee approves legislation to impose stronger ethics standards on Supreme Court justices

Senate Judiciary Committee voted along party lines to set ethics rules for the court and a process to enforce them, including new standards for transparency around recusals, gifts and potential conflicts of interest.
Published
July 20, 2023

Protesters storm Swedish Embassy in Baghdad after man threatens to burn Quran in Stockholm

The attack came ahead of a protest by an Iraqi asylum-seeker who burned a copy of the Quran during a demonstration last month in Stockholm.

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Published
July 20, 2023

Pioneering hacker Kevin Mitnick, FBI-wanted felon turned security guru, dies at 59

Mitnick's pioneering antics in the 1980s and '90s made him the most celebrated U.S. hacker.
Published
July 20, 2023

Russia bombards Odesa and other southern Ukraine port cities for 3rd night

The strikes killed at least two people in Odesa. In Mykolaiv, a city close to the Black Sea, at least 19 people were injured, including a child, Ukrainian officials said.
Published
July 20, 2023

Home searched in Tupac Shakur’s 1996 killing is tied to uncle of long-dead suspect

Public records link the property to the wife of Duane 'Keffe D' Davis, the uncle of Orlando Anderson, one of Shakur’s known rivals who authorities have long suspected in the rapper’s death.
Published
July 20, 2023

IRS steps toward new free-file tax return system have both supporters, critics mobilizing

And advocates for a free program to help file taxes are exponentially out-monied.
Published
July 20, 2023

America is barreling toward a summer of labor strikes

Even before the 100,000-plus actors joined in last week, both the number of strikes and workers on strike were up in the first half of this year, according to Bloomberg Law labor data.