Businesses are reopening and need help, especially with the summer tourism season approaching, the state’s labor commissioner says.
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General says U.S. may train Afghan forces in other countries
Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin acknowledges that continuing without American support on the ground ‘will be a challenge’ for the Afghans as they try to hold off Taliban insurgents.
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Blinken reaffirms U.S. support for Ukraine, as Russian troops remain at border
U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken visits at a time when efforts have stalled to end the conflict in eastern Ukraine, which has killed more than 14,000 people since it broke out in 2014.
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South Carolina House adds firing squad to state’s execution methods
Corrections officials said 3 of South Carolina’s 37 death row inmates are out of appeals, however lawsuits against the new death penalty rules are also likely.
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Judge declines to release Oregon man charged in U.S. Capitol attack
Two brothers have pleaded not guilty to multiple charges, including aiding and abetting in the obstruction of an official proceeding, in connection with the Jan. 6 riot that disrupted the certification of the presidential election.
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For first time in a long time, Netanyahu’s rule threatened in Israel
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu failed to meet a deadline for forming a government so opposition leader Yair Lapid will now try.
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Massachusetts shoe company executive pleads guilty to embezzling $30 million
He embezzled the money from a nearly 140-year-old company by writing checks to himself from company bank accounts and transferring funds from company accounts to his personal accounts and to another person.
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U.S. supports waiving intellectual property rules on COVID vaccines
But opponents – especially from industry – say a waiver would be no panacea and insist that production of coronavirus vaccines is complex.
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Federal judge strikes down CDC’s eviction moratorium
The Justice Department says it will appeal, but the head of the Maine Affordable Housing Coalition calls the ruling ‘really worrisome.’
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Prosecutors seek ‘special master’ to review material seized from Giuliani
The federal probe is examining the interactions of Donald Trump’s former lawyer with Ukrainian figures and whether he violated a federal law that governs lobbying on behalf of foreign countries or entities.