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A coalition of more than 200 groups Wednesday called on President Joe Biden to use the Defense Production Act to develop alternatives to fossil fuels. The move would simultaneously combat the climate crisis and Russian President Vladimir Putin’s stranglehold on the world’s energy economy. It would also support the transition to a renewable ec...
The recent U.S. sanction of Bangladesh’s elite force has placed the South Asian country in a tough geopolitical position. The U.S. Treasury Department designated Benazir Ahmed, Bangladesh’s current police chief and former head of the RAB or Rapid Action Battalion, along with six officials, under the Global Magnitsky sanctions program. The sanc...
A grand jury has indicted a Colorado county clerk and her deputy on charges related to an election security breach last summer. Tina Peters is a Republican running for secretary of state, who has promoted false claims of fraud in the 2020 election. Charges against Peters come amid death threats against election workers in the […]
More than $1.5 billion has been spent on settling police misconduct claims in the United States between 2010 and 2020, according to a Washington Post analysis. Among major U.S. cities, Chicago had the highest rate of misconduct claims involving officers named in multiple cases. More than 70% of the city’s roughly 1,500 payments during that [&h...
ISTANBUL (AA) – China has asked Washington to release “relevant details as soon as possible” regarding alleged US biological laboratories in Ukraine. “According to the data released by the US itself, the US has 26 biological laboratories and other related facilities in Ukraine which has indeed attracted great attention,” Foreign Ministry...
WASHINGTON (AA) – The Pentagon has turned down a proposal from Poland to transfer all of its MiG-29 fighter jets to a US airbase in Germany for backing Ukraine. “The prospect of fighter jets ‘at the disposal of the Government of the United States of America’ departing from a U.S./NATO base in Germany to fly […]
HOUSTON, Texas (AA) – The first person to stand trial in the Jan. 6 Capitol riots was found guilty Tuesday on all federal charges filed against him. The jury in Washington, DC took less than four hours to find 49-year-old Guy Reffitt of Wylie, Texas – a suburb 30 miles northeast of Dallas – guilty […]
President Joe Biden announced a ban on US imports of Russian oil on Tuesday. “Today I am announcing the United State is targeting the main artery of Russia’s economy. We’re banning all imports of Russian oil and gas and energy.” US Congresswoman Ilhan Omar, a Minnesota Democrat, criticized President Joe Biden over repor...
TEHRAN, Iran – Iran has asked Moscow to clarify its demands for a “written guarantee” from the US regarding Russian cooperation with Tehran. Foreign Ministry spokesman Saeed Khatibzadeh said he has heard Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov’s comments about guarantees from Washington that Russian cooperation with Tehran will not be hin...
U.S. Sen. Lindsey Graham is facing bipartisan backlash after publicly calling for Russian President Vladimir Putin’s assassination. In a Twitter post on Thursday, Graham referred to one of Roman ruler Julius Caesar’s assassins and the German officer who tried to kill Adolf Hitler. Graham called for someone in Russia to take Putin out, adding t...
