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(Headline USA) Consumer spending was flat in May with incomes dropping for a second month as the impact of the government's pandemic stimulus payments waned. Inflation, however, posted a sizable gain with prices excluding food and energy jumping by the largest amount in nearly three decades. The flat reading for consumer spending...

(Headline USA) Former Vice President Mike Pence has defended his role in certifying the results of the 2020 election, saying he's “proud” of what he did on Jan. 6 and declaring there's “almost no idea more un-American than the notion that any one person could choose the American president.” Pence, a...

(Associated Press) San Francisco city workers will be required to be vaccinated against the coronavirus when a vaccine receives full federal approval. The policy covering 35,000 municipal workers may be the first by any city or county in the U.S. Employees who refuse to get vaccinated and don’t get an exemption could...

(Headline USA) A judge on Thursday allowed a lawsuit alleging fraud in Georgia's most populous county during the November election and seeking a review of absentee ballots to move forward for now. Originally filed in December, the lawsuit says there is evidence of fraudulent ballots and improper ballot counting in Fulton...

(Headline USA) Officials in Kenosha, Wisconsin, have denied a claim for damages from Jacob Blake Jr., the black man who was paralyzed when he was shot by a white police officer last summer after resisting arrest and endangering his children in his vehicle while doing so. Blake sought damages for medical...

(Associated Press) Iowa’s most liberal county is no longer named for a slave-owning U.S. vice president and instead will honor a trailblazing local black academic. The Johnson County Board of Supervisors voted Thursday to cut ties with its two-century namesake, former Vice President Richard Mentor Johnson, a lifelong slave owner from...

(Headline USA) President Joe Biden declared on Thursday that “we have a deal,” announcing a bipartisan agreement on a $953 billion infrastructure plan that would achieve his top legislative priority and validate his efforts to reach across the political aisle. Details of the deal were scarce, but the plan --- with...

(Headline USA) An appeals court suspended Rudy Giuliani from practicing law in New York because he "made false statements" while trying to get courts to overturn Donald Trump’s loss in the presidential race. An attorney disciplinary committee said in its motion to suspend Giuliani’s license that there was “uncontroverted evidence” that...

(Headline USA) The chief of the U.S. Border Patrol was forced out of his job Wednesday, after less than two years in a position that lies in the crosshairs of polarizing political debate. Rodney Scott wrote to agents that he will be reassigned, saying he “will continue working hard to support...

(Headline USA) President Joe Biden is nominating Cindy McCain to be the U.S. representative to the United Nations Agencies for Food and Agriculture, one of 17 nominations announced Wednesday that included major diplomatic and arts assignments. McCain, the widow of Arizona Sen. John McCain, broke with Republicans and endorsed Biden for...

(Headline USA) An exclusive Rhode Island beach club tied to Democrat U.S. Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse has broken its silence to defend itself from claims that it’s for white people only after the controversy garnered national attention. Bailey’s Beach Club in Newport said in a statement Wednesday that the recent characterizations are...

(Headline USA) Vice President Kamala Harris on Friday will make her first visit to the U.S.-Mexico border, her office announced, after she has faced criticism from members of both parties for failing to go there despite her alleged role leading the Biden administration’s response to a steep increase in migration. Harris...