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Lawyers for Ghislaine Maxwell have pointed to revelations of a juror who convicted her of crimes related to sex abuser Jeffrey Epstein in a bid for a new trial.

Facing high daily Covid cases and major legislative defeats in Washington, President Joe Biden defended his course of action in his first year in office.

Senate Republicans blocked two voting rights bills, while Democrats Sinema and Manchin joined the GOP in opposing filibuster rule changes.

President Joe Biden had refused to invoke executive privilege, as Donald Trump wanted to prevent White House records from going to the January 6 riot panel.

The January 6 Capitol riot is being probed by a House select committee that is seeking hundreds of pages of Trump White House records.

Biden said he believes Congress will support climate and early childhood education policies contained in his Build Back Better plan.

President Joe Biden on Wednesday said he supports Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell's expected move to begin tightening monetary policy.

"My guess is [Putin] will move in, he has to do something," Biden said when asked about the more than 100,000 Russian troops positioned along Ukraine's border.

Statements from the court came after a report said Justice Gorsuch refused to wear a mask, despite a request from Chief Justice Roberts to do so.

Gorsuch's refusal to wear a mask has led Sotomayor, who has diabetes and is at a higher risk from Covid, to attend proceedings remotely, the report said.

Nearly 4 million children could fall into poverty this month following the end of monthly child tax credit payments in December, according to a new study. 

Cruz, a Texas Republican, has argued that the regulation violates the First Amendment's free speech protection.

As support grows for a ban on stock trades by members, the White House says Biden's position is that the question should be left to Congress to decide.

The Chinese government has previously denied any wrongdoing or human rights abuses in Xinjiang.

Former New York mayor Rudy Giuliani Giuliani led efforts for Trump after the 2020 election to challenge results that showed President Joe Biden had won.

Experts noted that while former President Donald Trump tried to gut Obamacare, President Joe Biden has been a cheerleader for the health insurance law.

The Kremlin has previously denied that it was preparing for an invasion of Ukraine.

Congress often talks tough about reining in Wall Street. But now there's growing pressure on Capitol Hill to curb lawmakers' own trading. 

The new time frame signals how imminent the White House believes a Russian attack could be, and how urgent it is to negotiate a peaceful solution.

Populist parties and politicians lost support all over the world during the pandemic, a survey of more than half a million people has found.