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Bout is a Russian who was the world’s most notorious arms dealer in the 1990s and early 2000s. He’s serving a 25-year prison sentence in Illinois, but could be freed as part of a U.S.-Russia swap. (Image credit: Chumsak Kanoknan/Getty

Following the Supreme Court’s decision to overturn Roe v. Wade, the George Washington University law school received calls to drop Thomas and cancel the seminar he taught. (Image credit: Erin Schaff, The New York Times /AP)

A package of tax increases, lower drug prices and other provisions aimed at reducing the federal budget deficit could alleviate rapid price gains.

A visit by the House speaker to the self-ruled island would likely sink a tentative rapprochement between the U.S. and China.

The U.S. is trying to win the release of two Americans held in Russia. It appears it would involve a trade for a Russian imprisoned in the U.S., Viktor Bout, the world’s most notorious arms smuggler.

What it would actually take to send out Ukrainian grain. They need to bring in minesweepers, figure out shipping companies to use, assure no more missile attacks, sort out danger pay, and lots more.

The number of people fleeing Haiti on boats for the dangerous journey to the U.S. is spiking and has led to tragedies, including 17 deaths when an overloaded boat capsized in the Bahamas.

Concerns that the U.S. economy could be heading into a recession intensified after official figures released July 28 showed that the U.S. economy shrank for the second straight quarter, just days after the International Monetary Fund (IMF) forecast a global

Homicides and some other violent crimes dropped slightly in the first half of this year compared—but violence in major American cities still remains dramatically higher than it was before the pandemic. The new statistics come from the Council on Criminal

Twitter is warning that governments around the globe are making more requests of the company to remove posts or snoop on accounts.