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Jan. 6 Committee to Issue Criminal Referrals, Chairman Says

Jan. 6 Committee to Issue Criminal Referrals, Chairman Says

The House committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol will make criminal referrals to the Justice Department as it wraps up its probe and looks to publish a final report by the end of the year, the panel’s chairman said Tuesday.Read more

Justices Spar in Latest Clash of Religion and Gay Rights

Justices Spar in Latest Clash of Religion and Gay Rights

The Supreme Court ’s conservative majority sounded sympathetic Monday to a Christian graphic artist who objects to designing wedding websites for gay couples, a dispute that’s the latest clash of religion and gay rights to land at the highest court.Read more

Thousands Protest in South Korea in Support of Truckers

Thousands Protest in South Korea in Support of Truckers

Thousands of demonstrators representing organized labor marched in South Korea’s capital on Saturday denouncing government attempts to force thousands of striking truckers back to work after they walked out in a dispute over the price of freight.Read more

What to Watch in Tuesday’s Georgia Senate Runoff Election

What to Watch in Tuesday’s Georgia Senate Runoff Election

The extended Senate campaign in Georgia gives Democratic Sen. Raphael Warnock and Republican challenger Herschel Walker a second chance to persuade voters to send them to Washington. But without party control of Congress at stake and absent other candidates on the ticket, the runoff looks different from the November general election.Read more

House Votes to Avert Rail Strike, Impose Deal on Unions

House Votes to Avert Rail Strike, Impose Deal on Unions

The U.S. House moved urgently to head off the looming nationwide rail strike on Wednesday, passing a bill that would bind companies and workers to a proposed settlement that was reached in September but rejected by some of the 12 unions involved.Read more

China Sends Students Home, Police Patrol to Curb Protests

China Sends Students Home, Police Patrol to Curb Protests

Chinese universities sent students home and police fanned out in Beijing and Shanghai to prevent more protests Tuesday after crowds angered by severe anti-virus restrictions called for leader Xi Jinping to resign in the biggest show of public dissent in decades.Read more

Gay Club Shooting Suspect Evaded Colorado’s Red Flag Gun Law

Gay Club Shooting Suspect Evaded Colorado’s Red Flag Gun Law

A year and a half before he was arrested in the Colorado Springs gay nightclub shooting that left five people dead, Anderson Lee Aldrich allegedly threatened his mother with a homemade bomb, forcing neighbors in surrounding homes to evacuate while the bomb squad and crisis negotiators talked him into surrendering.Read more

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What to Watch in Tuesday’s Georgia Senate Runoff Election

What to Watch in Tuesday’s Georgia Senate Runoff Election

The extended Senate campaign in Georgia gives Democratic Sen. Raphael Warnock and Republican challenger Herschel Walker a second chance to persuade voters to send them to Washington. But without party control of Congress at stake and absent other candidates on the ticket, the runoff looks different from the November general election.Continue Reading

Gay Club Shooting Suspect Evaded Colorado’s Red Flag Gun Law

Gay Club Shooting Suspect Evaded Colorado’s Red Flag Gun Law

A year and a half before he was arrested in the Colorado Springs gay nightclub shooting that left five people dead, Anderson Lee Aldrich allegedly threatened his mother with a homemade bomb, forcing neighbors in surrounding homes to evacuate while the bomb squad and crisis negotiators talked him into surrendering.Continue Reading

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