The House Judiciary Committee will question former White House counsel Don McGahn behind closed doors on Friday.
Julia McCue
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U.S. businesses struggle to fill jobs even as hiring picks up
Employers added 559,000 jobs last month, but the gain fell well short of their need for labor.
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Rockland man pleads guilty to making hoax distress call to Coast Guard
The Coast Guard received the bogus mayday call in December, less than two weeks after the Portland-based fishing boat Emmy Rose sank off the coast of Massachusetts.
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U.S. will swiftly increase global vaccine sharing, Biden says
The initial allotment of 25 million doses announced by the president marks a substantial boost to the lagging COVAX effort, which to date has shared just 76 million doses with needy countries.
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Shrinking giants: North Atlantic right whales getting smaller
Diminishing size is a threat to the species’ overall survival because the whales aren’t having as many offspring.
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Supreme Court limits prosecutors’ use of anti-hacking law
Conservative and liberal justices joined to rule that prosecutors overreached in using the law to charge a police sergeant in Georgia.
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Cannes Film Festival to return this summer after being canceled last year
Among the films competing for the Palme d’Or are the festival opener, ‘Annette,’ by Leox Carax and Sean Penn’s ‘Flag Day,’ in which he stars alongside his daughter, Dylan Penn, as a conman.
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Maine jobless claims tick up; national numbers fall for 5th straight week
More Americans are venturing out to shop, travel, dine out and all that renewed spending has led companies to seek new workers.
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10,000 volunteers drop out; Tokyo Olympics open in 50 days
Unpaid volunteers are a key workforce in running the Olympics and save organizers millions of dollars in salaries.
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Buckingham Palace barred minorities from office jobs in ’60s
The palace replied forcefully to the historical allegations.