GOVERNMENT

Sen. Kyrsten Sinema received a $1 million surge of campaign cash over the past year from private equity professionals, hedge fund managers and venture capitalists whose interests she has staunchly defended in Congress.

The flagship climate change and health care bill passed by Democrats and soon to be signed by President Joe Biden will bring U.S. taxpayers one step closer to a government-operated electronic free-file tax return system.

The Chinese air force is sending fighter jets and bombers to Thailand for a joint exercise with the Thai military on Sunday.

Kansas’ elections director says the state will go along with a request for a hand recount of votes from every county after last week’s decisive statewide vote affirming abortion rights, even though there was a 165,000-vote difference and a recount won’t change the result.

Republican Roy Moore of Alabama has won a defamation lawsuit against a Democratic-aligned super PAC over campaign ads dating to his failed 2017 Senate bid.

Republicans in Congress are not only defending Donald Trump against the FBI search of his Mar-a-Lago home.

Arizona officials say they will use shipping containers to close a 1,000-foot gap in the border wall near the southern Arizona farming community of Yuma.

Arizona began moving in shipping containers to close a 1,000-foot gap in the border wall near the southern Arizona farming community of Yuma on Friday, with officials saying they were acting to stop migrants after repeated, unfulfilled promises from the Biden administration to block off the area. The move by Arizona comes without explicit permission on federal land, with state contractors starting to move in 60-foot-long (18.3-meter-long) shipping containers and stacking two of the 9-foot-tall (2.7-meter-tall) containers on top of each other early Friday.

With inflation raging near its highest level in four decades, Congress is poised to approve President Joe Biden’s signature Inflation Reduction Act.

The FBI search of former President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate sent reverberations across the country, even before court papers were unsealed Friday.

Wisconsin’s Republican Assembly leader on Friday ended a 14-month, taxpayer-funded inquiry into the 2020 election by firing his hand-picked investigator.

A federal judge has reinstated a moratorium on coal leasing from federal lands that was imposed under former President Barack Obama and then scuttled under former President Donald Trump.

Minnesota Republican Brad Finstad has been sworn as the newest member of the U.S. House.

An FBI agent who works undercover has told jurors about a ride to see Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer's vacation home in 2020.

Capping an extraordinary week in Donald Trump’s post-presidency, a New York judge ordered Friday that his company and its longtime finance chief stand trial in the fall on tax fraud charges stemming from a long-running criminal investigation into Trump’s business practices.

A judge has ordered a gunman who took up to 10 hostages at a Beirut bank to force the release of his trapped savings to stay behind bars.

Court papers show that the FBI recovered documents labeled “top secret” from former President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate in Florida.

Portugal’s prime minister says European authorities are considering a liquefied natural gas pipeline from Spain to Italy.

Greece’s coast guard says a search and rescue operation is continuing for a third day for migrants reported missing after their boat capsized south of the Greek island of Rhodes.

The sprawling economic package passed by the U.S. Senate this week has a certain West Virginia flavor.

Germany’s health minister says European Union drug regulators may authorize the use of vaccines that are effective against two variants of the coronavirus.

A ship has docked in a Ukrainian Black Sea port to begin loading wheat for hungry people in Ethiopia.

Former German leader Gerhard Schroeder is suing to restore the perks he enjoyed as ex-chancellor after he was stripped of them by parliament following criticism over his ties with Russia.

The head of Kenya's electoral commission says vote-tallying in the country's close presidential election isn’t moving fast enough.

One of the last working dairy farms on Ukrainian-controlled territory in the eastern Donbas region is doing everything it can to stay afloat in a place where neither workers nor animals are safe from war.

An unprecedented drought is afflicting nearly half of Europe.

Latvia and Estonia say they have left a Chinese-backed forum aimed at boosting relations with Eastern European countries.

The biggest investment ever in the U.S. to fight climate change.

Democrats have pushed their landmark climate and health care bill through Congress, handing an election-year victory to President Joe Biden.

Pennsylvania Senate candidate John Fetterman is acknowledging he is lucky to be alive as he officially returns to the campaign trail.

Since its independence in 1947, India has transformed from a poverty-stricken nation into one of the world's fastest-growing economies.

Last week, Kansas voters overwhelmingly rejected a ballot measure that would have allowed state lawmakers to tighten restrictions on abortion.

California Gov. Gavin Newsom is proposing to extend the life of the state’s last operating nuclear power plant by at least five to 10 years to maintain reliable power supplies in the climate change era.

Officials in some parts of rural Nevada are vowing to bypass voting machines in favor of hand counting ballots this November and the Nevada secretary of state’s office is proposing statewide guidelines on how to do it.

Samsung’s de-facto leader has secured a pardon of his conviction for bribing a former president in a corruption scandal that toppled a previous South Korean government.

World Central Kitchen founder Jose Andres, Jordan’s Queen Rania, BlackRock CEO Larry Fink and “Hamilton” creator Lin-Manuel Miranda will help relaunch the Clinton Global Initiative in September.

Numerous transportation projects across the U.S. will be getting a slice of $2.2 billion of new federal funding.

Whether it's the fitness tracker on your wrist, the “smart” home appliances in your house or the latest kids’ fad going viral in online videos, they all produce a trove of personal data for big tech companies.

Democrat Beto O’Rourke responded to a heckler at a campaign stop with an expletive after the Texas gubernatorial candidate heard a cackled laugh while criticizing the ease in which the Uvalde elementary school gunman obtained an AR-15-style rifle.

An off-duty Virginia police officer who stormed the U.S. Capitol with a fellow officer has been sentenced to more than seven years in prison, matching the longest prison sentence so far among hundreds of Capitol riot cases.

The Justice Department has asked a court to unseal the federal warrant the FBI used to search the Florida estate of former President Donald Trump.

A judge has declared a mistrial in a dispute over partial liability for Flint, Michigan's lead-contaminated water.

The charity voices concerns of delaying support for households bracing themselves for energy bill hikes.

A court in Russia has ordered a former state TV journalist placed under house arrest for nearly two months on charges of spreading false information about Russia’s armed forces.

Organizations in Alaska have gotten creative in trying to help voters understand how to cast their ballot in the state's first ranked voting election on Aug. 16.

The 4th Congressional District in Washington state is a land of snow-capped volcanic peaks and lush irrigated apple orchards.

The European Union says a new U.S. tax credit plan aimed at encouraging Americans to buy electric vehicles could discriminate against European producers and break world trade rules.

Latvia’s Parliament has declared Russia a “state sponsor of terrorism” for attacks on civilians during the war in Ukraine and has urged other countries to follow suit.

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson and senior ministers have held inconclusive talks with energy companies amid mounting pressure to help people cope with soaring gas and electricity prices.

Recently retired Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer has become the honorary co-chairman of a nonpartisan group devoted to education about the Constitution.

China has renewed its threat to attack Taiwan following almost a week of war games near the island, amid international condemnation and a stinging rebuke from the self-governing democracy's government.

The Indian capital has reintroduced public mask mandates as COVID-19 cases continue to rise across the country.

As worldwide sales of the algae soar, the European Union wants to establish giant seaweed farms.

How Russian oligarchs from Vladimir Putin’s inner circle exploited a UK secrecy loophole left open by the government.

Almost 700 migrants crossed the English Channel in 14 boats on Monday, the Ministry of Defence says.

The motoring group says the UK's fuel duty cut looks "paltry" compared to help given in other countries.

The project was first announced in 2017 by the Saudi Arabian government that is being sold as a carbon-neutral habitat.

Sam Tarry defied Sir Keir Starmer by joining striking rail workers on the picket line.

The Tory leadership candidate says the UK faces an emergency over the economy, the NHS and migration.

An unofficial advisor to Donald Trump, Mr Bannon refused to cooperate with the January 6 committee.

The focus needs to be on picking a new leader, contender Penny Mordaunt says as she hits back at "smears".

The government will provide funds so all schools can have at least one kit after parents' campaign.

Candidates vying to replace Boris Johnson have just hours to secure support from at least 20 MPs.

Russian pipeline operators say maintenance work is needed, but Germany suspects political motives.

Living in Sri Lanka is a daily battle and people are broken after months of crisis, writes Andrew Fidel Fernando.

Less than three years after a thumping election victory, Boris Johnson is resigning. How did it come to this?

As the crisis over Boris Johnson's leadership grows, the Northern Ireland secretary resigns.

Norway's government late Tuesday intervened to bring an end to an oil and gas strike that threatened to exacerbate the region's deepening energy crisis.

It is the first time they have spoken since Nicola Sturgeon outlined her route map to a referendum.

There are 50 known survivors of the banned pregnancy drug in Scotland, most now in their 60s.

Following an NPR investigation, the Department of Health and Human Services issued guidance to state and county officials that lets them stop charging parents whose children are placed in foster care.

Original Ife bronze heads, of which only some 20 survive, are thought to be about 700 years old.

With half the rail network closed, travellers from Paddington Station were pleasantly surprised.

An earthquake in Afghanistan's Paktika province has killed at least 250 people, an official tells the BBC.

The task force intends to develop steps the federal government can take to combat online hate and abuse.

The task force intends to develop steps the federal government can take to combat online hate and abuse.

The bid to change post-Brexit trade procedures is set to prompt a row, writes our political editor.

Second Amendment is no longer needed

He is expected to give a new right-to-buy pledge and suggest benefits should count towards mortgages.

The government said the bill would also allow for the removal of gun licenses from people involved in acts of domestic violence or criminal harassment, such as stalking.

Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s government has introduced legislation that would put a national freeze on importing, buying or selling handguns

Heating water contributes hugely to cost increases, says an organisation aiming to get the UK more active.

European countries have taken different approaching to higher energy bills.

Two days after his election win, Anthony Albanese will fly to meet leaders of the US, India and Japan.

Sir John Major warns about rising prices, as a minister is criticised for advocating people working more hours.

England's schools regulator says such schools are often "unsafe" and don't provide a full education.

Nowhere is the challenge of abandoning Russian oil clearer than in the refinery town, Schwedt.

Ministers had refused to make it public, arguing that it would breach legal professional privilege.

Labour wants MPs to investigate if the PM misled them - but ministers say a decision should wait.

Only £60m of £220m humanitarian aid pledged by the government was handed out by 1 April, a Labour MP says.

Hassana Adamu speaks to the BBC about feeling neglected on the eighth anniversary of the kidnappings.

French far-right presidential candidate Marine Le Pen is alarming both Muslims and Jews in France with a pledge to regulate the ritual slaughter of animals if elected. Le Pen frames her measure as an effort to end animal suffering. She wants animals to be stunned first. But Jews and Muslims who for religious reasons eat meat from animals that aren't stunned before slaughter say they feel targeted. The issue is one of the many fault lines between Le Pen and incumbent President Emmanuel Macron and the starkly different visions of France they are presenting for next Sunday's election runoff vote.

That's 4%, plus whatever the local government may tack on, which will disappear from store receipts.

That's 4%, plus whatever the local government may tack on, which would disappear from store receipts.

“No nation is doomed for failure or destined to live in captivity,” the journalist and historian Adam Michnik says.

A man whose uncle died in the Grenfell Tower fire says he was left alone to find his missing relative.

Five things you need to know about the coronavirus pandemic this Tuesday morning.

The House of Lords support plans to widen the documents people could use to get a ballot paper.

Charities react to the government's decision not to ban conversion therapy for trans people.

Dozens of Chinese medical journal articles published between 1980 and 2015, when the Chinese government said it would stop procuring organs from executed prisoners, describe doctors in China performing organ transplants without following standard procedures for establishing brain death, according to new research published in a top U.S. medical journal.Why it matters: "This shows, in the words of the physicians themselves, that they prioritized organ procurement over adhering to the most basic me