By Kevin Zhang Israeli police have arrested 42 people in connection with a deadly shooting in a synagogue in East Jerusalem on Friday. Seven people were killed, and at least three more injured, in the deadliest attack of its kind in years. …
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By Kevin Zhang The U.S. hit the debt ceiling of $31.4 trillion set by Congress on Thursday, forcing the Treasury Department to start taking extraordinary measures to keep the government paying its bills and escalating pressure on the Capitol to avoid a …
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By Kevin Zhang Thousands of flights across the U.S. were delayed Wednesday after a Federal Aviation Administration pilot alert system failed overnight, causing a nationwide halt on flights. The FAA lifted the ground stop on departing flights around 9 a.m. ET as …
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By Kevin Zhang U.S. President Biden and German Chancellor Olaf Scholz announced Thursday that they would be sending additional armored fighting vehicles to Ukraine, following a similar pledge on Wednesday by French President Emmanuel Macron. As the war in Ukraine continues, western …
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By Kevin Zhang Benjamin Netanyahu was sworn in on Thursday in a dramatic return to the position of Israel’s prime minister, after being sworn in as the leader of what many are predicting to be the most right-wing government in Israeli history. …
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By Kevin Zhang Three hundred days after the onset of the Russia-Ukraine war, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky landed in Washington D.C., for talks on what the next 300 days might look like for the conflict. Shrouded in secrecy until the last minute, …
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By Kevin Zhang The White House has ordered the release of thousands of documents regarding the assassination of U.S. President John F. Kennedy for the first time. Some 13,173 files were published online, with the White House saying that over 97% of …
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By Kevin Zhang Brittney Griner arrived in the U.S. early on Friday. Landing at Kelly Field in San Antonio, Texas. The WNBA star had been held for months in Russian prisons on drug charges and was released on Thursday in a one-for-one …
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By Kevin Zhang On Wednesday, November 30, former Chinese president Jiang Zemin, who led the country for a decade of rapid economic growth after the Tiananmen crackdown, died at the age of 96. A wave of nostalgia has erupted across the country …
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By Kevin Zhang Taiwanese President Tsai Ing-wen has resigned as head of the Democratic Progressive Party, the ruling party of Taiwan, after facing a multitude of local election losses on Saturday, in which voters elected officials from the opposition Nationalist Kuomintang party …
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