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Minnesota gubernatorial candidate Jeff Johnson announced Monday that he is suspending his campaign after his daughter was found fatally stabbed

Phone records of sitting members of Congress were secretly obtained in a way that blocked lawmakers from invoking constitutional protections, Sen. Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, alleged Tuesday during a hearing. Grassley, chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, and Sen. Marsha Blackburn, R-Tenn., who is leading the hearing, signaled that their panel planned to grill hearing witnesses, … Read more

Maryland’s Democratic Gov. Wes Moore, widely believed to have White House ambitions, is facing questions over the accuracy of a story about his family’s background involving being forced to flee the state of South Carolina due to threats from the Ku Klux Klan.  “I am literally the grandson of someone who was run out of … Read more

US captain reflects on her playing career in France and the need for greater competition as she prepares for a summer move to Denver Lindsey Heaps is sitting in the heart of Lyon, a city that has witnessed her transformation from a self-described “baby” into the authoritative captain of the US women’s national team. Now … Read more

Seamus Culleton describes conditions as ‘torture’ as he pleads with taoiseach to raise his case with Donald Trump An Irish man who has been held by US Immigration and Customs Enforcement for five months despite having a valid work permit and no criminal record says he fears for his life and has appealed for help … Read more

President Donald Trump‘s administration is poised to walk back an Obama-era greenhouse gas finding that serves as a lynchpin for justifying climate regulations across the country on Wednesday. The 2009 “endangerment finding” identifies six greenhouse gases that the Obama administration said pose “a threat to public health and welfare.” That harm finding was then used … Read more

Bill limits type of science used to determine health risks and gives industry major role in chemical review process A new Republican House bill proposes sweeping changes to US toxic chemical laws that would gut protections for consumers, workers and the environment, public health advocates mobilising against the legislation warn. Among other changes to the … Read more

Downhill champion Breezy Johnson among the affected ‘A solution has been identified, and a fix put in place’ After days of embarrassing stories about Winter Olympic medals cracking, snapping, and even breaking in two after falling in the snow, organisers say they have finally fixed the problem. Officials have also promised to repair any of … Read more

Jamie Raskin, a top House Democrat, accused the justice department of making ‘puzzling, inexplicable redactions’ to documents related to Jeffrey Epstein that obscured the names of abusers, while allowing the identities of the disgraced financier’s victims to become public. Raskin told reporters that he wanted to view the complete files to better understand how the … Read more

I glimpsed the monks on their 2,300-mile pilgrimage across America – their message of loving-kindness had me in tears “I’m obsessed with the monks,” my friend Sam told me. “It’s the only thing getting me through the violence of this second Trump administration. The monks, and my meds.” I nodded. I’d first heard about the … Read more