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Visitors to Arlington National Cemetery will have the opportunity to both re-create history and make history this Veterans Day. On Nov. 11, the cemetery is holding special ceremonies to mark the 100th anniversary of the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier. The public is invited. The cemetery will host a full …

The House Select Committee investigating Jan 6 announced they have issued subpoenas to former White House Press secretary Kayleigh McEnany, Trump Senior Advisor Stephen Miller, and eight other former administration officials as part of its investigation into the attack on the U.S. Capitol and its causes. The committee is demanding …

The US government will buy another $1 billion worth of the Covid-19 pill made by Merck & Co Inc, the company said on Tuesday. The government in June agreed to buy 1.7 million courses of molnupiravir for $1.2 billion and is now exercising options to buy 1.4 million more. With …

Vice President Kamala Harris is in Paris this week on a 4-day diplomatic tour to mend strained relations with France. The Deputy Commander-in-chief of America will be on a four-day tour and will arrive late Tuesday. According to reports from NPR, Harris will be delivering an address to the Paris …

Twitter said Monday that Rep. Paul Gosar‘s (R-Ariz.) sharing of a doctored video to Twitter and Instagram showing him killing Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) and attacking President Joe Biden with two swords violates the company’s “hateful conduct” policy. The company restricted engagement with the tweet, blocking the ability to like, …

On Monday, the U.S. Department of Justice announced two foreign nationals have been charged for their involvement in deploying REvil ransomware attacks. The feds also announced they have seized $6.1 million allegedly traceable to ransom payments. The two face up to 115 and 145 years in prison, respectively. They’re charged in …

The House Select Committee investigating Jan 6 today announced they have issued additional subpoenas to six individuals involved in efforts to promote false claims of election fraud or overturn the results of the 2020 election. The committee is demanding records and testimony from witnesses, including staff members of the former …

The current COVID-19 travel ban impacting visitors to the United States is set to end. The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) announced that starting today, November 8, 2021, non-citizen travelers who are fully vaccinated for COVID-19 and have appropriate documentation will be permitted to enter the United States via land …

On Friday, Congress passed a $1.2 trillion bipartisan infrastructure bill, a signature part of President Joe Biden‘s economic agenda. The bill has $550 billion of new federal investments in everything from bridges, to roads, to broadband, to water. On Saturday, the president called it a “once-in-a-generation investment that’s gonna create …

Originally published by The 19th After their largest drop-off from work so far this year in September, women began to rejoin the workforce in October, helping drive an economic rebound, according to new data released by the Bureau of Labor Statistics on Friday. About 309,000 women left the workforce in …

On Saturday, a federal appeals court temporarily halted the Biden administration’s vaccine requirement for businesses with 100 or more workers. The Republican attorneys general of Texas, South Carolina, Louisiana, Mississippi and Utah, as well as several private companies, filed petitions on Friday challenging the mandate in the U.S. 5th Circuit …

Colin L. Powell, the nation’s first Black secretary of state, was remembered by family and friends Friday as a principled man of humility and grace whose decorated record of leadership can serve as a model for generations to come. “The example of Colin Powell does not call on us to …

The Labor Department on Friday said more than a half-million jobs were added to the U.S. economy in October — soundly beating what most analysts had predicted. The department said in its monthly report that 531,000 jobs were added last month. In the run-up to Friday’s report, most economists projected …

The House of Representatives on Friday night passed a bipartisan $1 trillion infrastructure bill after months of delay and negotiations, sending the long-waited legislation to President Joe Biden for his signature. The bill was approved by a vote of 228-206, with 13 Republicans joining Democrats in support of the legislation. …

A Texas woman who boasted about not going to jail for her role in the Capitol riot has now been sentenced to two months behind bars. Real estate agent Jenna Ryan received the sixty-day sentence on Thursday after initially pleading guilty on August 19th to one misdemeanor count of parading, …