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As crime rates rise across America, President Biden released plans today for five new strike forces to deal with firearms trafficking. Included in his plan: hiring more police officers and bringing violence intervention programs to 15 cities.

MINOT, N.D. – At least 65% of adults in the U.S. have received at least one dose of the COVID-19 vaccine, according to the CDC. But now, a new variant of the virus is starting to make its way across the country. The CDC estimates that roughly 10% of U.S....

An Indiana woman on Wednesday became the first defendant to be sentenced in the Jan. 6 insurrection at the U.S. Capitol and avoided time behind bars, while a member of the Oath Keepers extremist group pleaded guilty in a conspiracy case and agreed to cooperate with prosecutors in a major step forward for the massive investigation.

WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court on Wednesday sided with California agriculture businesses that objected to a state regulation giving unions access to farm property in order to organize workers. As a result of the ruling, the businesses' attorney said, California will have to modify or abandon the regulation put in...

The US Food and Drug Administration will add a warning to the Covid vaccines produced by Pfizer/BioNTech and Moderna about rare cases of heart inflammation in adolescents and young adults, the agency announced on Wednesday. US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention advisory groups, meeting to discuss reported cases of...

Joe Biden has announced Claire Cronin as his nominee for the position of US ambassador to Ireland. Ms Cronin is a representative and majority leader in the state legislature of Massachusetts. She is also a lawyer, and campaigned for President Biden in the 2020 presidential election. Irish broadcaster RTÉ reported...

Republican lawmakers are moving forward with Plegislation that would require voters to show identification every time they go the polls. The state Senate on Wednesday voted 30-20 to approve a GOP-proposed amendment that seeks to enshrine that requirement in the state constitution. All 28 Republican senators supported the measure, as did Democratic Sen. Lisa Boscola of Lehigh County and independent Sen. John Yudichak of Luzerne County.

Moon Jae-in can still hear the roar today. South Korea’s President had been seated next to Kim Jong Un in Pyongyang’s May Day Stadium on Sept. 19, 2018, for the close of the Mass Games when North Korea’s leader beckoned him up to the dais. Beneath a vast collage calling for Korea to “unite the strength of the entire people,” Moon urged the 150,000-strong crowd to “hasten a future of common prosperity and reunification,” while revelers brandished white flags with powder blue outlines of a unified Korean Peninsula. For Moon, it was a transformative experience. The North Koreans’ “eyes and attitudes” showed that they “strongly aspire for peace,” he tells TIME. “I could see for myself that North Korea has completely changed … and is doing everything possible to develop.”