Eight killed, including six women of Asian descent, at shootings at Atlanta day spas

Eight people, six of them women of Asian descent, were shot dead in a string of attacks at day spas in and around Atlanta, and a man suspected of carrying out the shootings was arrested in southern Georgia, police said.

Judge to query jurors in George Floyd murder trial about $27 million settlement

The judge in the murder trial of Derek Chauvin, the former Minneapolis police officer charged in last year's arrest of George Floyd, will ask jurors on Wednesday about their knowledge of the city's settlement with Floyd's family.

As Republicans attack Biden on immigration, poll shows support from their voters

Republican voters in the United States are increasingly hostile toward illegal immigrants, Reuters/Ipsos polling shows, an unease that the Republican Party is moving to capitalize on in its bid to retake Congress.

Hopes and fears raised in rural West Virginia by push for $15 minimum wage

At the Custard Stand restaurant in Webster Springs, West Virginia, Angie Cowger worries Democrats' goal of raising the hourly minimum wage to $15 would be the death knell for her business.

U.S. far-right leaflets and posters surged last year, Anti-Defamation League says

U.S. far-right and white supremacist groups sharply stepped up their distribution of racist or anti-Semitic fliers, posters banners and other forms of physical propaganda last year, according to a study released on Wednesday.

White supremacist propaganda in U.S. hit record in 2020, group says

White supremacist propaganda in the United States including racist, anti-Semitic and anti-LGBTQ messages nearly doubled last year to a record level, according to the Anti-Defamation League.

Florida teen pleads guilty to hacking Twitter accounts of Biden, celebrities

The Florida teenager accused of being behind the hack of celebrity Twitter accounts last year has pleaded guilty in the state's 13th Judicial Circuit Court in Tampa and agreed to serve three years in juvenile prison.

Third Texas utility commissioner resigns amid power outage fallout

The third and final remaining commissioner of the Texas utilities regulator resigned on Tuesday at the request of Governor Greg Abbott, in continued fallout from a weather-driven crisis in the state's power market.

Biden backs filibuster reform after top Senate Republican says Democrats would pay if it's scrapped

President Joe Biden on Tuesday backed reforming, rather than scrapping, the filibuster after Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell warned Democrats that ending the long-standing Senate procedure that can block partisan legislation would bring the Democratic president's agenda to a standstill.

U.S. facing biggest migrant surge in 20 years: Homeland Security

The United States is facing the biggest surge of migrants at its southwestern border in 20 years, the homeland security secretary said on Tuesday as the Biden administration races to handle an influx of children trying to cross the U.S.-Mexico border alone.

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