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Gun policy debate blocked by Senate Republicans

The vote failed nearly along party lines, raising fresh doubts about the possibility of robust debate, let alone eventual compromise, on gun safety measures.

 
Biden vows to complete evacuation, avenge deaths of US servicemen

President Joe Biden vowed Thursday to complete the evacuation of American citizens and others from Afghanistan despite a deadly suicide bomb attack at the Kabul airport. He also declared to the extremists responsible: “We will hunt you down and make you pay.”

 
Carriage with John Lewis’ body crosses Selma bridge

The late U.S. Rep. John Lewis crossed the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Alabama, for the final time Sunday as remembrances continue for the civil rights icon.

 
Trump: Expanded tests will assess coronavirus risks

President Donald Trump said his administration will use “expanded” testing capabilities to advise high-risk, medium-risk and low-risk communities whether to increase, maintain or relax their social distancing guidelines.

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States sue Trump administration over family separations at border

Seventeen states sued the Trump administration Tuesday to force it to reunite the thousands of immigrant children and parents it separated at the border.

 
Trump will visit Puerto Rico next week

President Donald Trump says he’ll visit hurricane-ravaged Puerto Rico next Tuesday.

 
Expert says US should send envoy to North Korea to mitigate nuclear threat

The specter of North Korea armed with nuclear-bomb-tipped missiles is such “a serious threat for the world” that a top U.S. scientist says President Donald Trump should send an envoy to Pyongyang to persuade Kim Jong Un’s regime to end its doomsday posturing.

 
Zbigniew Brzezinski, Carter’s national security adviser, dies

Zbigniew Brzezinski, who helped topple economic barriers between the Soviet Union, China and the West as President Jimmy Carter’s national security adviser, died Friday. He was 89.

 
Trump son-in-law Kushner pursued Russia secret channel, says diplomat

Jared Kushner and Russia’s ambassador to Washington discussed the possibility of setting up a secret and secure communications channel between Donald Trump’s transition team and the Kremlin, according to U.S. officials briefed on intelligence reports.