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The U.S. is extending the coronavirus pandemic public health emergency through April, President Joe Biden’s administration confirmed.

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Republicans are nearing a crucial victory in the House of Representatives as they need just seven seats of the more than 20 remaining congressional races to retake a majority.

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Rep. Eric Swalwell, D-Calif., was harshly mocked on Twitter after criticizing the view that parents should be in charge of their own kids' educations.

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If they want to win majorities, Republicans should emphasize issues on which the public supports their positions.

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Construction of the Obama Presidential Center has been suspended after builders found a noose at the project site.

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Get busy trying or get busy dying.

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Earlier this week, President Joe Biden was asked if the U.S. government should investigate Elon Musk’s acquisition of Twitter on national security grounds. The President responded that it was “worthy of being looked at”. Yet, strangely, there was no mention of TikTok, which poses a far greater threat to American national security. For months now [...]Read More...

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PITTSBURGH — The first thing Allegheny County Republican Chairman Sam DeMarco saw on election night after the polls closed was the more than 100,000 votes from his home county that dropped for Democrat John Fetterman through mail-in ballots. Although he wasn’t sure just yet that that meant the race…

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Today's Republican Party demonstrates the problem of putting new wine into old bottles.

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In a race that's not getting much airtime on cable news, U.S. Rep. Lauren Boebert and a former Aspen city councilman Democrat Adam Frisch are neck and

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SHARM EL-SHEIKH, Egypt (AP) — When it comes to helping poor nations cope with climate change, the United States government left its wallet at home. So it hopes its friend, big business, can help pi…

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More trouble for Baldwin may loom on the horizon...

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Republican candidates who were closely aligned with former President Donald Trump turned off some centrists and in-play Republicans.

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Meanwhile, the former president spends very little from his bulging war chest.

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The blame game for Republicans' tepid showing in the midterm elections is in full swing, and many lawmakers are landing on former President Donald Trump as the prime target.

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For many governors on the ballot this week, the pandemic was the defining issue of their term — and those who pushed for the fastest reopening after the initial wave of lockdowns were among the biggest winners.

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‘What he did in the super red, deep red parts of Pennsylvania…it just makes, makes you wonder about his future.’

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Laxalt is ahead of incumbent Democratic Nevada Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto by just 800 votes after 23,000 mail-in ballots were tabulated in Clark County on Friday.

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Saskatchewan Justice Minister Bronwyn Eyre said her province is concerned about the prospect of the Liberal government’s fertilizer emissions reduction scheme.

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By David Lawder NEW DELHI (Reuters) - The United States is happy for India to continue buying as much Russian oil as it wants, including at prices above a G7-imposed price cap mechanism, if it steers clear of Western insurance, finance and maritime services bound by the cap, U.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen said on Friday. The cap would still drive global oil prices lower while curbing Russia's revenues, Yellen said in an interview with Reuters on the sidelines of a conference on deepening U.S.-Indian economic ties. Russia will not be able to sell as much oil as it does now once the European Union halts imports without resorting to the capped price or significant discounts from current prices, Yellen added. "Russia is going to find it very difficult to continue shipping as much oil as they have done when the EU stops buying Russian oil," Yellen said. "They're going to be heavily in search of buyers. And many buyers are reliant on Western services." India is now Russia's largest oil customer other than China. Final details of the price cap to be imposed by wealthy G7 democracies and Australia are still coming together ahead of a Dec. 5 deadline. The existence of the cap would give India, China and other major buyers of Russian crude leverage to push down the price they pay to Moscow, Yellen said. Russian oil "is going to be selling at bargain prices and we're happy to have India get that bargain or Africa or China. It's fine," Yellen added. Yellen told Reuters that India and private Indian oil companies "can also purchase oil at any price they want as long as they don't use these Western services and they find other services. And either way is fine." The cap is intended to cut Russia's oil revenues while keeping Russian crude on the market by denying insurance, maritime services and finance provided by the Western allies for tanker cargoes priced above a fixed dollar-per barrel cap. A historical Russian Urals crude average of $63-64 a barrel could form an upper limit. The cap is a concept promoted by the United States since the EU first laid out plans in May for an embargo on Russian oil to punish Moscow for its invasion of Ukraine. INDIA WARY Yellen's remarks were made after India's foreign minister said last week that his country would continue to buy Russian crude because it benefits India. India's finance and energy ministries were not available for comment on Yellen's remarks, but other officials have said they were wary of the untested price cap mechanism. "I do not think we will follow the price cap mechanism, and we have communicated that to the countries. We believe most countries are comfortable with it and it is in no one's case that Russian oil should go offline," one Indian government official told Reuters, speaking on condition of anonymity. The official added that stable supplies and prices are most important. Rosneft, Russia's largest oil exporter, is expanding its tanker charter business to avoid its buyers having to find tankers, insurance or other services as the price cap. Yellen said that even with Russian tankers, Chinese tankers and a "shadow" fleet of older, decommissioned tankers and re-flagged vessels, "I just think they will find it very difficult to sell all the oil that they have been selling without a reasonable price." (Reporting by David Lawder; additional reporting by Aftab Ahmed in New Delhi; Editing by Will Dunham and Heather Timmons)

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President Joe Biden's administration has stopped accepting applications for the student loan relief program. "Courts have issued orders ...

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A Barron’s investigation found pricey cars, registration delays, and other complaints.

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The series finale of Paramount+ “The Good Fight” left social media users stunned on Thursday for featuring a plot in which a character claimed to be sexually assaulted by Florida Republ…

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Rep. Tony Jurgens publicly endorsed a Democrat in a crucial race that helped the Minnesota DFL reclaim the majority in the Senate.

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The application portal is closed—at least for now—after a Texas judge struck down the student loan forgiveness program on Thursday.
