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Filipino online news site Rapper plans to fight government's shutdown order

4:22pm July 07, 2022

The Filipino government has ordered the online news site Rappler to shut down, but the publication's founder, Nobel Prize winning journalist Maria Ressa, says she plans to fight the order in court.

What Haiti looks like a year after its president was assassinated

4:22pm July 07, 2022

by Carrie Kahn

Even after a year, much is still unknown about the figures behind the assassination of Haitian President Jovenel Moise. It has created a political vacuum filled by instability and gang violence.

Biden's picks for the Presidential Medal of Freedom largely reflect his own politics

4:22pm July 07, 2022

by Scott Detrow

President Biden gives the Presidential Medal of Freedom — the nation's highest civilian honor — to a group of 17 people who in large part sum up his political brand.

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In Ohio, Biden addressed a friendly crowd of labor leaders and union workers

10:54am July 07, 2022

by Barbara Sprunt

President Biden flew to Cleveland to make the case for his economic agenda. Polls show Americans have grown pessimistic about his ability to rein in inflation amid growing fears of a recession.

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Britain Conservative Party MP, Boris Johnson, left, speaks to the media to launch his campaign as a candidate to be the Mayor of London, outside City Hall in central London, Monday, July 16, 2007.

Embattled UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson resigns

7:44am July 07, 2022

by The Associated Press

His resignation will trigger an internal election to pick a new leader of the Conservative Party, who will also be the next prime minister. He steps down after defections left him unable to govern.

Plan C shows a combination pack of mifepristone and misoprostol tablets, two medicines used together, also called the abortion pill.

Self-induced abortions can raise medical — and legal — questions for doctors

5:00am July 07, 2022

by Sarah McCammon

Doctors are thinking about how to help women who have questions or concerns after taking abortion pills at home — without putting themselves or their patients in jeopardy.

Attorneys representing Sen. Lindsey Graham said Wednesday that he intends to challenge a subpoena compelling him to testify before a special grand jury in Georgia investigating former President Donald Trump and his allies' actions after the 2020 election.

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Lindsey Graham will fight Georgia 2020 election subpoena, his lawyers say

11:01pm July 06, 2022

by The Associated Press

Graham's attorneys slammed the investigation into former President Donald Trump and his allies' actions in Georgia after the 2020 election as being coordinated with the Jan. 6 committee.

Law enforcement officials walk around the damaged Georgia Guidestones monument near Elberton, Ga., on Wednesday.

A Georgia monument, seen by some as satanic, was damaged from a predawn explosion

9:51pm July 06, 2022

by The Associated Press

The roadside attraction was built in 1980 from local granite, commissioned by an unknown person or group under the pseudonym R.C. Christian.

People visit a memorial at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas, on June 2, 2022, to pay their respects to the victims killed in a school shooting.

Uvalde shooting victims are not getting funds fast enough, local officials say

7:01pm July 06, 2022

by Jaclyn Diaz

Texas state Sen. Roland Gutierrez and Uvalde Mayor Don McLaughlin say they've received complaints about the Uvalde Together Resiliency Center.

A sign calls for Britney Griner's release at a game between Portland Thorns FC and Angel City FC in Los Angeles earlier this month.

As calls grow to free Brittney Griner, Biden says he's spoken with her wife

6:14pm July 06, 2022

by Rachel Treisman

The White House said President Biden and Vice President Harris spoke with Cherelle Griner on Wednesday, as more of the WNBA star's supporters publicly petition him to do more to secure her release.