Politics

RIYADH – Political reform, racism, transgender rights – the audio app Clubhouse has unleashed unbridled debates about topics deemed dangerously sensitive in Saudi Arabia, but surveillance fears have spooked users in the authoritarian…
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WASHINGTON – President Joe Biden will sign an executive order on Sunday (March 7) mandating federal departments and agencies increase efforts to help Americans register to vote, as the White House looks for ways to offset Republican…
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WASHINGTON — President Biden’s goal of increasing the federal minimum wage to $15 an hour was dealt a likely fatal blow Thursday when a Senate official ruled the policy cannot be contained in the upcoming COVID-19 aid bill. It is Biden’s…
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WASHINGTON — The US Supreme Court on Monday cleared the way for New York prosecutors to get eight years of former president Donald Trump’s tax returns, dealing Trump a major blow in his yearslong quest to block a grand jury investigation…
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The foreign ministers of Singapore and Indonesia expressed “grave concern” over the situation in Myanmar and support a proposal to hold an informal Asean ministerial meeting on Myanmar, Singapore’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) said…
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WASHINGTON – US President Joe Biden on Sunday (Feb 14) called on Congress to enact “common-sense” gun law reforms, three years after the school shooting in Parkland, Florida. “This administration will not wait for the next mass shooting…
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Department of Homeland Security officials are planning to scrap a Trump-era version of the civics test administered to would-be US citizens that was criticized as being harder and more complex than its predecessor, according to officials…
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JERUSALEM – Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu returns to court on Monday (Feb 8) to formally respond to the corruption charges against him, as his trial enters an intensified phase six weeks before he faces re-election.…
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JERUSALEM – Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Saturday angrily rejected an International Criminal Court’s (ICC’s) ruling that paves the way for a war crimes probe into the Israeli-occupied Palestinian territories, condemning…
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President Joe Biden is planning to increase the maximum number of refugees allowed into the United States next fiscal year to 125,000 beginning in October after years of cuts by the previous administration. “It’s going to take time to…
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