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President Joe Biden is celebrating his party’s election wins this week and claiming credit for some of the victories, including the Kentucky governor’s re-election. In his first public remarks about Tuesday’s elections, Biden said at a campaign event Thursday night that his administration’s policies were resonating with voters. “The Biden-Harris …

An aircraft bound for the United States took flight with missing and damaged window panes and had to abruptly return to its London origin out of safety concerns, the UK’s Air Accidents Investigation Branch said in a special bulletin published on Nov. 3. According to the bulletin, “several cabin windows” …

The unions representing hospitality workers in Las Vegas on Thursday reached a tentative deal with MGM Resorts International for a new contract covering nearly 25,400 employees, less than 24 hours before a strike threatened to shut down the Strip. The Culinary Workers and Bartenders Unions said they have a five-year tentative agreement with …

An industrial robot crushed a worker to death at a vegetable packaging plant in South Korea, police said Thursday, as they investigated whether the machine was unsafe or had potential defects. Police officials in the southern county of Goseong said the man died of head and chest injuries Tuesday after …

The Republican presidential candidates on Wednesday were sharply divided on whether to raise the retirement age for Social Security recipients. Former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie and former United Nations Ambassador Nikki Haley said they back raising the retirement age for younger workers, while Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis and South …

After suffering stinging losses in the 2022 midterms, Republicans said they needed to refine their message on abortion or risk continuing to lose at the ballot box in a post-Roe v. Wade world. One year later, the GOP finds itself in an eerily similar situation after major losses in off-year …

Virginia Del. Danica Roem has made political history once again after winning a seat in the state Senate on Tuesday. She is the first out transgender person elected to Virginia’s upper chamber and only the second trans person elected to any state Senate in the United States, following Delaware’s Sarah …

G-7 calls for ‘humanitarian pauses’ to allow aid into Gaza Arata Yamamoto and Abigail Williams TOKYO — Foreign ministers from the Group of 7 developed economies called for “humanitarian pauses” to allow aid into the Gaza Strip but not a full -cease-fire, in a joint statement at a meeting in …

WASHINGTON — House lawmakers on Tuesday censured Rep. Rashida Tlaib, the sole Palestinian American in Congress, over her remarks and actions in response to the Israel-Hamas war. The censure resolution, authored by Rep. Rich McCormick, R-Ga., passed 234 to 188, with 22 Democrats voting for it and four Republicans opposing the …

WASHINGTON — A man with a rifle was arrested in a park near Senate office buildings across from Union Station in Washington, D.C., on Tuesday, according to the U.S. Capitol Police, which said there is no reason to believe there is an ongoing threat. The suspect was arrested after Capitol …