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The White House is seeking to improve President Joe Biden's approval ratings by launching a campaign to highlight some of the recent key policy wins by the administration ahead of the November midterm elections.

More than a dozen states are expected to send relief payments to its residents as the Biden administration remains mum about plans for another round of stimulus checks.

Polio, a deadly disease that used to paralyze tens of thousands of children every year, is spreading in London, New York and Jerusalem for the first time in decades, spurring catch-up vaccination campaigns.

The 17-year-old was charged with murder nearly five months after the woman was murdered.

Deputy President William Ruto led a tight presidential race against opposition leader Raila Odinga, official results reported by media showed on Monday, with an announcement from electoral authorities due at 1200 GMT.

President Joe Biden is on vacation following another bout with COVID-19.

The sound of gunshots sent a wave of panic among visitors at the amusement park in Gurnee, Illinois, with many fearing it was another mass shooting.

University of Oklahoma medical student Ian Peake spent four years shadowing doctors at a Tulsa abortion clinic because his school didn't offer courses on abortion or provide any training.

Drugmakers are launching new medicines at record-high prices this year, a Reuters analysis has found, highlighting their pricing power even as Congress moves to cut the $500 billion-plus annual bill for prescription drugs in the United States.

Since July, Dmitry Vorobiova, 39, his partner Olena, 36, and their dog have been living with 64-year-old Michael Glover, a software engineer who had extra space in his six-bedroom house after his wife passed away.

As the jury in the Alex Jones defamation trial gathered in a conference room in a Texas courthouse on Aug.

Housed in a detention centre in southern England, Aladeen says he risked his life to travel thousands of miles from his homeland of Syria to escape being forced to fight in the military of President Bashar al-Assad.

"This was not an active shooter incident inside the park," the Gurnee police said in the statement.

Ukrainian forces reported heavy Russian shelling and attempts to advance on several towns in the eastern region of Donetsk that has become a key focus of the near six-month war, but said they had repelled many of the attacks.

Japanese fans of the sci-fi hit "Stranger Things" can chow down on demonic pasta and rock out to retro 1980s tunes at a pop-up cafe inspired by the Netflix Inc horror drama.

Six fraternities have chosen to cut ties with the University of Southern California over the strict party rules.

Authorities expect it will take about two weeks to return the pipeline to service.

A Pennsylvania man plowed a car through a fundraising event and then was arrested for killing his mother.

Malaysian former Prime Minister Najib Razak starts his final attempt on Monday to set aside his conviction in a corruption case linked to the multi-billion dollar 1MDB financial scandal.

American actor Anne Heche was taken of life support on Sunday, nine days after suffering severe injuries in a fiery car crash, and has died as a compatible person was found to receive her donated organs, a spokesperson said.

New York will no longer allow family members of inmates at state prisons to send or deliver care packages from home.

The FBI and U.S Department of Homeland Security (DHS) have warned law enforcement agencies of an increase in threats following a search of former President Donald Trump's Florida home last week.

A 29-year-old Delaware man died in an apparent suicide early on Sunday after crashing his car into a barricade near the U.S. Capitol and firing shots into the air, police said.

While carrying out a project in Missouri, cave divers rescued a dog that had been missing for nearly two months.

The Capitol Police do not the motive behind the shooting.

Republicans stepped up calls on Sunday for the release of an FBI affidavit showing the underlying justification for its seizure of documents at former President Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago home.

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Former Afghan security personnel with sensitive knowledge of U.S.

The Saturday night jackpot was worth an estimated $49.6 million.