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Cricket fever descends on the US: Will Americans catch it?

LONG ISLAND, N.Y. -- A smattering of Hindi and Urdu mixed with American-accented English could be heard over the blasts of Bollywood music this past Sunday at a stadium on Long Island, N.Y., offering a signal that cricket had arrived in the United States. Fans were packed in like sardines at Eisenhower Park in East...

McConnell, Trump bury hatchet with eye on GOP takeover

Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell (Ky.) and former President Trump made efforts on Thursday to bury the hatchet and end their long-running feud as GOP confidence grows that the party could win both chambers of Congress and the White House this fall. It was uncertain initially whether McConnell would even attend the lunch meeting hosted...

He wiped out $10B in medical debt. Now he’s battling veteran debt

After launching a nonprofit that’s eliminated more than $10 billion of medical debt in the U.S., a Navy veteran is seeking to relieve the burden of debt for his fellow former service members.  Jerry Ashton leveraged his experience in the debt collection industry to launch Undue Medical Debt, formerly known as RIP Medical Debt, in...

Global rush for farmland could trigger world war, documentary argues

A global network of powerful entities, fueled in part by Wall Street, is buying up land and water around the world. This global land rush has led to wrecked wells and lost farms from Arizona to Zambia — and it risks sowing the seeds for future global conflict, according to "The Grab," a new documentary out today from...

Signs point to mild gas prices in preelection summer

U.S. gas prices started the summer driving season lower than usual, with experts pointing to mild demand and cheaper oil as factors contributing to the moderate costs. Though confounding variables, such as the hurricane season and downstream effects of extreme heat, could still shake things up, prices are expected to continue declining in the coming...

Kamala Harris is Biden’s secret weapon in North Carolina

Vice President Harris has become the Biden campaign’s secret weapon in North Carolina, a battleground state they say they can win in November.  Harris this week made her fifth trip this year to the state, where she has spent much of her time speaking directly to Black communities — particularly Black men, a demographic Biden...

The nation’s cartoonists on the week in politics

Every week political cartoonists throughout the country and across the political spectrum apply their ink-stained skills to capture the foibles, memes, hypocrisies and other...

Gun rights groups call law used to convict Hunter Biden unconstitutional

Second Amendment groups say the law used to convict Hunter Biden on federal gun charges is unconstitutionally broad, and one has offered to assist with a challenge.

Secret Service to brief Congress on clash between agents protecting VP Harris

Secret Service officials will brief Congress on training and recruiting issues after an agent on Vice President Kamala Harris’s protective detail attacked her supervisor.

House to vote on defense bill authorizing military pay raises, DEI crackdown

The House is ready to vote on this year's annual defense policy bill that includes a massive overhaul for the quality of life for U.S. troops.

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