Trump and May to Hold Joint News Conference, Chaos Erupts in Congress, Serena Rolls Into Wimbledon Finals, and More
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* President Trump gave a joint news conference with Theresa May on Thursday. While the duo dined last night, The Sun newspaper published a sit-down interview with the president where he criticized May’s handling of Brexit. Trump warns trade deals with England could be nixed if Brexit isn’t handled properly.
* Republicans on Wednesday grilled Peter Strzok, an FBI agent who was removed from working on the Trump-Russia investigation after his text messages critical of the president were discovered. Strzok claimed he was not, in any way, biased during the investigation.
* Stormy Daniels made an encore appearance after her charges were dropped at the same strip club where she was arrested a night prior.
* Serena Williams beat Julia Görges of Germany on Wednesday to progress to her 10th Wimbledon final on Saturday.
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Federal health advisers voted overwhelmingly against an experimental treatment for Lou Gehrig’s disease at a Wednesday meeting prompted by years of patient efforts seeking access to the unproven therapy.
Lawmakers probing the cause of last month’s deadly Maui wildfire did not get many answers during Thursday's congressional hearing on the role the electrical grid played in the disaster.
President Joe Biden announced Wednesday that federal disaster assistance is available for Louisiana, which is working to slow a mass inflow of salt water creeping up the Mississippi River and threatening drinking water supplies in the southern part of the state.
A new law in California will raise the minimum wage for fast food workers to $20 per hour next year, an acknowledgment from the state's Democratic leaders that most of the often overlooked workforce are the primary earners for their low-income households.
From Sunday, workers at the main United States base in Antarctica will no longer be able to walk into a bar and order a beer, after the U.S. federal agency that oversees the research program decided to stop serving alcohol.
House Republicans launched a formal impeachment hearing Thursday against President Joe Biden, promising to “provide accountability” as they probe the family finances and business dealings of his son Hunter and make their case to the public, colleagues and a skeptical Senate.
The FBI and other government agencies should be required to get court approval before reviewing the communications of U.S. citizens collected through a secretive foreign surveillance program, a sharply divided privacy oversight board recommended on Thursday.
The federal government is just days away from a shutdown that will disrupt many services, squeeze workers and roil politics as Republicans in the House, fueled by hard-right demands, force a confrontation over federal spending.
