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The Hill
A federal ban on most hemp-derived THC products is set to be delayed for a month after a last-minute effort to keep the original timeline failed. The Senate voted 61-32 to table a bipartisan amendment from Sen. Ted Budd (R-N.C.) and about a dozen other senator
NY Times
The inhabitants of the Chagos Islands were expelled by the British 60 years ago. Refugees were anxious to return this year, but their hopes have been caught in a morass of geopolitics.
Washington Examiner
U.S. intelligence believes an explosive-laden drone found near Germany‘s Leipzig/Halle Airport was owned by the Russian government, according to a Wall Street Journal report citing unnamed officials. The United States had hinted at a hostile foreign actor bein
Washington Examiner
The Senate scrapped plans to vote on a party-line spending blueprint that funds the war in Iran and includes President Donald Trump‘s election integrity priorities on Friday, avoiding a doomed effort that would have delivered Republicans a setback just as the
Washington Examiner
The Department of War revoked former Air Force Secretary Frank Kendall’s access to classified information over his comments about the security capabilities of Air Force One. “Effective immediately, the Department of War has REVOKED former Secretary of the Air
Rolling Out
The cast of Insecure is hitting the road for a 10th anniversary tour, and one name from the original run is missing. Amanda Seales, who played the sharp-tongued Tiffany across the show’s five seasons, is not part of the reunion. Her absence has reopened a ques
Washington Post
The alleged threats were made in the case of a Black teen who was found dead off the Mississippi coast after celebrating the Fourth of July with friends.
Capital Press
The Senate Agriculture Committee has added mandatory country-of-origin labels on beef packages to the Farm Bill, resurrecting a policy a World Trade Organization panel once ruled discriminated against foreign beef. […]