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UNITED STATES—Attorney General William Barr released the findings of Special Counsel Robert Mueller's report on Thursday, April 18. During a press conference on Thursday, Barr spoke about the release of the confidential report completed by Robert Mueller on March 22. A public version of the reported with redacted details was made available on the Department of Justice website after it...

UNITED STATES−New York Governor Andrew Cuomo banned the Food and Drug Administration approved drug, hydroxychloroquine, as a potential cure for COVID-19. According to News Day, Cuomo placed bans on the state of New York restricting doctors from prescribing chloroquine and hydroxychloroquine for treatment of COVID-19. The drug may only be used for patients in state-approved clinical trials and FDA-approved uses...

UNITED STATES—The U.S. Capitol was on lockdown after what appeared to be, supporters of President Donald Trump breached security and entered the building on Wednesday, January 6, shortly after  1 p.m. The U.S. Senate was in session, with Vice President Mike Pence presiding to handle the voting of the electoral votes for the U.S. Presidency. Pence had just begun to...

UNITED STATES—Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg testified for two consecutive days on Capitol Hill this week. He first testified for 5 hours before a joint session of two Senate committees on Tuesday, April 10. Wednesday’s hearing was in front of the House Energy and Commerce Committee. The hearings generated questions from privacy advocates and free speech protectors. Facebook was under a...

WASHINGTON, DC—The hearing to address the most recent attacks on President Donald Trump regarding his phone call to Ukraine and the anonymous Whistle-blower complaints were held Thursday, September 26, on Capitol Hill. Transcripts of the phone call were released on Wednesday, September 25. House Intelligence Chairman Adam Schiff presented his opening statements including a conversation between President Trump and the Ukrainian...

BEIRUT—The Prime Minister of Lebanon Hassan Diab and his cabinet announced today they will step down from office. In his August 10th televised speech, Diab said he would take "a step back" in order to "fight the battle for change alongside ." Diab's cabinet declared their resignation earlier today. These resignations follow the most violent weekend in the city in nearly a...

ROME, ITALY—An envelope mailed to Pope Francis at St. Peter's Square in Vatican City containing three bullets was intercepted by Italian authorities in Milan. The manager of the post office in Peschiera Borromeo which is approximately 7 miles southeast of Milan, contacted authorities about the suspicious piece of mail on Sunday, August 8. The ammunition in the envelope was reportedly 9...

UNITED STATES—U.S. Representative, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York's 14th District and Massachusetts Senator Ed Markey released a new resolution for the New Green Deal on Thursday, February 7. Ocasio-Cortez’s first attempt of the passage of the 14-page resolution was rejected by Democrats in November 2018, deciding to utilize an older version from 2012. Bloomberg reported that Markey, who was the lead...

UNITED STATES−Pentagon officials reported that Iranian Major-General Qasem Soleimani was killed in a U.S. airstrike on Thursday, January 2 in Baghdad. The airstrike took place at Baghdad’s International Airport. The U.S. Department of Defense made the announcement in a press release on January 2. “At the direction of the President, the U.S. military has taken decisive defensive action to protect...

WASHINGTON D.C.—Representatives from Israel, the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain, signed the Abraham Accords, a diplomatic agreement that establishes peace between those countries, during a ceremony that was presided by President Donald Trump in The White House on Tuesday, September 15. The agreement, brokered by the Trump administration, normalizes relations among those countries and commits them to cooperate with each...