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When similar devices passed over US territory during the Trump and Biden administrations, they were not immediately identified as Chinese surveillance balloons

Patrick Crusius still faces a potential death sentence if he’s convicted on a state capital murder charge in the 2019 shooting that killed 23 people

Biden made calls for unity and tried to emphasize conciliation over conflict, seemingly impossible to sustain in such divided times

Even Democrats question whether he should run for reelection amid concerns about his age

Currently Maine and Vermont, as well as the District of Columbia, are the only states where felons never lose their right to vote

The proposed legislation would prohibit anyone from importing, exporting or removing the desert plant without a permit from the state

The Memphis Police Department blasted Demetrius Haley and four other officers as “blatantly unprofessional”

The officer, Demetrius Haley, stood over the victim as he lay propped against a police car and took photographs

His remarks followed the government’s blockbuster report last week that employers added 517,000 jobs in January, nearly double December’s gain

The streaming giant introduced paid sharing in Canada, New Zealand, Portugal and Spain on Wednesday

Harm reduction advocates call for increasing availability of medication-assisted treatment and measures to prevent fatal overdoses – not ‘strong penalties’ to crack down on traffickers

Lawmakers have raised a number of questions about whether the device was able to collect intelligence and transmit it back to China

Flight 2664 was heading to Newark Liberty International Airport in New Jersey when a passenger’s external battery pack set alight shortly after takeoff

‘It isn’t obvious what the right response is to a suspected, but not confirmed, cyberattack by another government on a presidential election,’ said Yoel Roth, the platform’s former head of trust and safety

The parents of a first-grader said their daughter was in the classroom when the shooting occurred and ‘suffered emotional harm as a result’

In Congress and statehouses, the balloon’s journey added traction to decades-old concerns about foreign land ownership

The 2019 massacre happened on a busy weekend at a supermarket that is typically popular with shoppers from Mexico and the US

The figure has grown 70% from 2019 and is close to 20,000 people despite warnings by the US State Department about high rates of violent crime and kidnappings

The US president addressed Congress in an event marked by China, the Ukraine war, gun and police reform and calls for unity in defense of democracy

A growing desperation to fill hundreds of slots in recent years drove the department to increase incentives and lower its standards

His speech before a politically divided Congress comes as the nation struggles to make sense of confounding cross-currents at home and abroad

The crisis sparked by the incursion of a Chinese spy balloon in US airspace is set to weigh heavily on the president’s most important speech of the year

The White House said the guests were invited ‘because they personify issues or themes to be addressed by the president’ or they embody the administration’s policies

On Tuesday night, the president of the US will stand before a joint session of Congress for the first time since the midterm elections. Look for new faces and fresh political dynamics, coupled with attention to some old problems brought back into painful focus by recent events

There was no evidence the attack was carried out or any record of damage to local substations

Republican leaders of the statehouse, in coordination with Governor DeSantis, ordered the legislature to convene in a special session to restructure the Reedy Creek Improvement District

The judges ruled in early January that the boundaries passed last year by the Republican-dominated state legislature marked an intentional splitting of Black voters