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President Joe Biden and top officials in his administration are going to work convincing doubters of his $1.9 trillion COVID-19 relief package. Biden is scheduled to undertake a “Help is Here” tour to multiple locations to speak to Americans directly to tout what they see as a crucial bill in the fight against COVID-19. Biden is […]

As other provinces and territories get ready to roll their clocks forward on Sunday, the government official behind Yukon’s move away from the time shift says the territory’s work will make it easier for others to end the practice. When Yukon stopped changing its clocks in November, the territory rearranged flight schedules and worked with

The White House is holding onto some doses of AstraZeneca Plc’s CCP virus vaccine so they can be given to Americans quickly if authorized by the U.S. health regulator, a top administration official announced. AstraZeneca has produced doses of the vaccine in the United States, where it has yet to be approved. In Europe, 10 countries

Commentary One day, my 17-year-old daughter showed me a Facebook post that said 74.5% of hate crimes between 1992 and 2014 against Asian Americans were from white offenders. The purpose of the post was to ask Asians to fight alongside the Black Lives Matter movement to “improve minority communities.” I reminded her to check online

MOSCOW—Russian police detained around 200 people, including several prominent opposition figures, at a meeting of independent and opposition politicians in Moscow on Saturday, the interior ministry said. The detentions come amid a crackdown on anti-Kremlin sentiment, following the arrest and imprisonment of opposition politician Alexei Navalny who returned to Russia in January after recovering from

Law enforcement officers inside the U.S. Capitol had no reason to believe Ashli Babbitt, the woman one of them shot dead, was armed, according to her family’s lawyer. Babbitt was fatally shot inside the Capitol on Jan. 6 after breaching the building with hundreds of others, interrupting a joint session of Congress. She was struck

One of the most enduring of sounds, synonymous with the Emerald Isle, is that of the dulcet Irish harp. But the Irish harp that many of us are familiar with is a relatively modern instrument. Prior to the late 19th century, Ireland had a rich tradition of making and playing a different kind of harp,

Pfizer’s vaccine is 94 percent effective in preventing asymptomatic transmission of the virus that causes COVID-19, according to data from Israel. The COVID-19 vaccine, co-produced with BioNTech, was also at least 97 percent effective in preventing symptomatic disease, severe-critical disease, and death, the companies and the Israel Ministry of Health said. The figures stem from

Police officers late Friday surrounded a group of about 100 and charged 13 with crimes after a protest devolved into a riot. Members of the crowd, wearing all black and chanting far-left slogans, broke windows at an apartment building and several other structures in the Pearl District neighborhood around 9 p.m. before they were surrounded.

Sen. Cory Booker (D-N.J.) said he is engaged in high-level discussions about making permanent the temporary expansion to the Child Tax Credit brought about by the American Rescue Plan that President Joe Biden has signed into law. Speaking at a press conference Friday, Booker hailed the $1.9 trillion relief bill—which Republicans panned as wasteful and