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Major aid groups say the Biden administration’s special envoy for humanitarian issues has not responded to requests for meetings, as experts warn desperation in Gaza will reach unimaginable levels.
Americans have long had an intense conversation about what race and ethnicity says about who they are.
“Across the globe, there are many balloons in the sky from different countries,” said Wang Yi. “Do you want to down each and every one of them?”
The Treasury Department says it has started taking “extraordinary measures” as the government has brushed up against its legal borrowing capacity of $38.381 trillion.
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Employees accused of misconduct at the Department of Homeland Security could face more stringent penalties under an overhaul that follows complaints about the handling of internal discipline in the third largest U.S. government agency.
A U.S. House committee has passed a bill outlawing the distribution of fake or misleading materials that resemble census forms or prevent people from participating in the nation's head count.
Goodyear has agreed to recall more than 173,000 recreational vehicle tires that the U.S. government says can fail and have killed or injured 95 people since 1998.
A small number of COVID-19 patients are relapsing after taking Pfizer's antiviral pill, raising questions about the drug at the center of the U.S. response effort.
In total, 1,350,000 Americans were collecting jobless aid the week that ended March 12, another five-decade low.
The U.S. will likely see an uptick in cases caused by the omicron descendant BA.2 starting in the next few weeks.