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Washington (AFP) – US President Joe Biden was out of isolation on Sunday, after testing negative for Covid for a second day in a row, the first time he was able to leave the White House since July 20.  Biden, 79, had tested positive for Covid and retur…

Washington (AFP) – US President Joe Biden on Saturday tested negative for Covid-19, days after coming down with a second bout of the illness. “The President continues to feel very well,” Biden’s physician Kevin O’Connor said in a statement. “This morni…

Miami (AFP) – Shots ring out in a Miami school classroom. Inside, a dozen students, their clothing stained with what appears to be blood, desperately scream. A security agent walks down the hall, more shots are heard — and a young man is swiftly knock…

Washington (AFP) – The White House on Saturday assailed Indiana lawmakers for passing sweeping curbs on abortion access, calling it “devastating” step for the Midwestern state. Indiana on Friday became the first state to pass such a law since the Supre…

Los Angeles (AFP) – Major flooding in California’s Death Valley on  Friday stranded approximately 1,000 people, buried cars and shut down all roads into and out of the famously parched national park. No injuries were reported, according to the National…

Hiroshima (Japan) (AFP) – “Humanity is playing with a loaded gun” as crises with the potential for nuclear disaster proliferate worldwide, UN head Antonio Guterres said in Hiroshima on Saturday, the 77th anniversary of the first atomic bomb attack. At …

Washington (AFP) – A Texas jury ordered US conspiracy theorist Alex Jones on Friday to pay $45.2 million in punitive damages for falsely claiming that the deadly 2012 Sandy Hook elementary shooting was a “hoax.” The verdict came a day after the same ju…

Washington (AFP) – The US jobs market grew much faster than expected in July, lifting employment back to pre-pandemic levels, in news welcomed by President Joe Biden as he faces tough midterm elections — but which also fuels concerns over sky-high inf…

Kyiv (Ukraine) (AFP) – Three grain ships departed Ukraine on Friday under a landmark deal to avert widespread food shortages, as Kyiv and Moscow accused each other of striking Europe’s largest nuclear site, causing a reactor stoppage. Russian troops ha…

Washington (AFP) – So what do Americans see in Joe Biden — a doddery has-been whom even his own party doesn’t want around, or an improbable superhero? After an extraordinary week in Washington politics, the answer is a bit of both. The 79-year-old’s p…