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New York becomes first U.S. city with congestion pricing

New York City's congestion pricing went into effect in the center of Manhattan on Sunday, one day after a federal judge rejected a request from New Jersey officials...

Congress is ready to certify Trump’s election win, but his Jan. 6 legacy hangs over the day

As Congress convenes amid a winter storm to certify President-elect Donald Trump â€˜s election, the legacy of Jan. 6 hangs over the proceedings with an extraordinary fact: The candidate who...

Washington Post cartoonist resigns over paper’s refusal to publish satirical cartoon of Bezos and Trump

Pulitzer Prize-winning cartoonist Ann Telnaes announced Friday she had resigned from The Washington Post after the newspaper refused to publish a satirical cartoon depicting...

Biden notifies US Congress of planned $8bn arms sales to Israel: Reports

Package to include precision-guided munitions, artillery shells and air-to-air missiles, according to US media reports. The administration of outgoing United States President Joe Biden has...

Mexico opens possibility of receiving non-Mexican deportees from Trump

Mexico opened the possibility Friday of receiving non-Mexican migrants deported by the United States after initially saying they would push President-elect Donald Trump to return other...

Exclusive: New Orleans’ planned new Bourbon Street barriers only crash-rated to 10 mph

Months before the deadly New Orleans vehicle attack on New Year’s Day, the city modeled scenarios for how an attacker could enter Bourbon Street...

Drivers skid and crash as wintry mix grips central US before moving east

Road conditions were deteriorating Saturday in the central U.S. as a winter storm brought a mix of snow, ice and plunging temperatures, with forecasts calling...

Elon Musk demands UK act on grooming gang scandal amid growing calls for probe: ‘National inquiry now!’

UK opposition leader calls for investigation into 'rape gangs scandal' SpaceX CEO Elon Musk is throwing his weight behind growing calls in the United Kingdom for...

Why are US flags being flown at half-staff on Inauguration Day?

President-elect Donald Trump has expressed frustration that flags will be flying at half-staff when he takes office later this month. It’s an action put in place by...

Biden plans to ban some offshore drilling in a way Trump would struggle to undo

President Joe Biden is expected to permanently ban future offshore oil and gas development in parts of the Atlantic and Pacific oceans in a...

Trump gets Johnson across the finish line but dramatic speaker vote signals challenges ahead

With two Republican lawmakers standing between Mike Johnson and the speaker’s gavel, President-elect Donald Trump picked up the phone. From the golf course Friday afternoon,...

Federal courts won’t refer Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas to attorney general over ethics

The federal courts will not refer allegations that Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas may have violated ethics laws to the Justice Department, the judiciary’s policymaking body...

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