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Nation & World

Published
May 12, 2022

UK warns ‘no choice but to act’ to change Brexit deal

Border issues between Northern Ireland and Ireland have long posed the thorniest problems in the U.K.’s divorce from the EU.
Published
May 12, 2022

Biden co-hosts 2nd global COVID summit as U.S. nears 1 million deaths

The virus has killed more than 995,000 people in the U.S. and at least 6.2 million people globally, according to the U.S. CDC and WHO.
Published
May 12, 2022

Army poised to revamp Alaska forces to prep for Arctic fight

U.S. Army leaders say they are poised to revamp forces in Alaska to better prepare for future cold-weather conflicts.
Published
May 11, 2022

U.S. finds 500 Native American boarding school deaths so far

Tribal leaders have pressed the Interior Department to ensure that any children’s remains are properly cared for and returned to their tribes.
Published
May 11, 2022

Trump sells Washington hotel to Miami-based investor group

The new owners plan to remove the Trump name from the facade and rebrand the hotel to a Waldorf Astoria.

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Published
May 11, 2022

Mario Batali acquittal underscores perils of #MeToo cases

Legal experts and victims’ advocates say celebrity chef Mario Batali’s acquittal on sexual assault charges underscores the inherent difficulties of prosecuting such cases nearly five years into the #MeToo era.
Published
May 11, 2022

U.S. surpasses record 100,000 overdose deaths in 2021

Officials warn that they are responding to more and more overdoses as the pandemic has persisted.
Published
May 11, 2022

North Korea confirms 1st COVID outbreak, Kim orders lockdown

North Korea had been one of the last places in the world without an acknowledged COVID-19 case after the virus was first detected in the central Chinese city of Wuhan in late 2019 and spread to every continent including Antarctica.
Published
May 11, 2022

Arizona carries out its first execution since 2014

Clarence Dixon, 66, died by lethal injection at the state prison in Florence for his murder conviction in the 1978 killing of 21-year-old Arizona State University student Deana Bowdoin.
Published
May 11, 2022

Supreme Court justices to meet for 1st time since leak of draft Roe ruling

The Supreme Court’s nine justices will gather in private Thursday while the future of abortion rights is at stake and an investigation is underway to find the source of the leaked draft opinion that would overrule Roe v. Wade.