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WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden and other U.S. leaders mourned the death of Japan’s former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, who was assassinated Friday while delivering a campaign speech ahead of his country’s parliamentary elections.

The influential prime minister worked to revive the economy with his trademark "Abenomics" and rebuild Japan's role on the global stage. His assassination stunned a nation where gun violence is rare.

Instead of attacking the student debt crisis at its source, the Biden administration is throwing money at the problem.

It was only when I moved to the US that I understood that this issue, more than any other, encapsulates our differences, says the Guardian’s Devika Bhat

WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden awarded the Medal of Freedom to two politically active female athletes — soccer star Megan Rapinoe and gymnast Simone Biles — and to the late Apple Inc. co-founder Steve Jobs as part of his first slate of recipients of the nation’s highest civilian honor.

President Joe Biden has presented the nation's highest civilian honor to 17 people, including gymnast Simone Biles, actor Denzel Washington and the late Arizona Republican Sen. John McCain

WASHINGTON — The odds of matching six numbers in the Texas Powerball lottery are 1 in 25 million. That’s three times better than the odds that two former FBI directors deemed traitors by then-President Donald Trump, James Comey and Andrew McCabe, were picked at random for an unusually intensive IRS…

Medal of Freedom recipients include advocates for gun control and civil rights, plus former Republican senators who worked across the aisle.

The PM is no stranger to political scandals and lying to the British public

A superstar of the political world in his own right, Larry the cat is a regular sight in Downing Street, whether it's sitting on the step waiting to be allowed in or sunbathing behind Donald Trump's Cadillac. But who does the friendly feline actually belong to?

From In the Matter of Ruggiero, decided last month by the N.J. intermediate appellate court: Ruggiero was accused of workplace misconduct and the County sought to terminate her. That sanction was first rejected by a hearing officer and then an Administrative Law Judge (ALJ). The ALJ found a six-month suspension,…