Mark Meadows wrote in an email a day before the January 6 attack on the Capitol that the National Guard would be standing by to protect pro-Trump protesters. A parliamentary committee writes that in a report on the former chief of staff to former President Donald Trump. The US […]
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Trump Loses Appeal Over Capitol Storming Documents
A US court on appeal has rejected ex-President Donald Trump’s demand not to release presidential documents about the January 6 storming of the Capitol. He challenged a decision by his successor Joe Biden in the District of Columbia Court. “Based on the data that former President Trump has made […]
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US: House Approves $768 Billion Defense Budget
A large majority of the United States House of Representatives passed a final version of the defence budget for 2022 late Tuesday evening (local time). The budget law authorizes defence spending worth USD 768 billion. That amount is $25 billion more than President Joe Biden had asked for and […]
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CNN: US to Diplomatically Boycott Beijing Games
The US government will soon officially announce that it will not send government officials to the 2022 Winter Olympics in Beijing. President Joe Biden will make the diplomatic boycott official this week, and several sources told the news channel. However, according to CNN, the United States National Security Council, […]
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First Omicron Case Discovered in United States
The Omicron variant of the coronavirus has also reached the United States. The CDC health agency has identified the potentially more contagious variant in California in a traveller who returned from South Africa on Nov. 22. The variant had already surfaced in Canada. The mutant has also been found […]
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US Health Service Wants Booster for All Adults for Omicron
With the emergence of the corona variant Omicron, advisers to the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) have once again urged that all adults in the United States receive a booster shot. Earlier in November, they already recommended the third injection for all adults after first advocating […]
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Washington and Taliban to Resume Talks in Doha Next Week
The United States will resume talks with the Taliban in Qatar next week. The US State Department announced this on Tuesday. “I can confirm that the Special Representative for Afghanistan, Tom West, will return to Doha next week for two weeks of meetings with the Taliban,” said Ned Price, […]
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Lawyer: $130 Million for Parkland’s Relatives
The U.S. government is expected to pay damages totalling about $130 million to the families of victims of the fatal shooting at a Florida high school in 2018. According to Kristina Infante, a lawyer for the next of kin, the government has reached a provisional settlement with the parents […]
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Biden Considers Diplomatic Boycott of Beijing Winter Olympics
US President Joe Biden is considering a diplomatic boycott of the Winter Olympics, which will take place in the Chinese capital Beijing in February. He announced that on Thursday. Biden told reporters on Thursday that a diplomatic boycott is indeed a possibility. “It’s something we’re considering,” he said. In […]
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Warmest October Since the Beginning of Measurements in the Northern Hemisphere
According to the American meteorological institute, NOAA last October was the warmest October on land in the Northern Hemisphere since the beginning of measurements in 1880. It was the fourth warmest October globally, after 2015, 2018 and 2019. There is already more than a 99 percent chance that the […]