Politics

Brazil pushes illegal miners out of Indigenous territory

By Edmar Barros, Fabiano Maisonnave, Associated Press

Brazilian authorities have launched an operation to reclaim Yanomami Indigenous territory from thousands of illegal gold miners who have contaminated rivers and brought famine and disease to one of the most isolated populations of the world.

In new role as labor committee chair, Bernie Sanders says corporations ‘should be nervous’

By Mary Clare Jalonick, Associated Press

As the new chairman of the Senate committee that oversees health and labor issues, Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders says some corporations "should be nervous."…

Former Twitter executives deny being pressured by Democrats to block Hunter Biden story

By Farnoush Amiri, Barbara Ortutay, Associated Press

Former Twitter executives conceded to Congress that they made a mistake by blocking a story about Hunter Biden, the president's son, from the social media platform in the run-up to the 2020 election.

Analysis: How a Supreme Court ruling led to the overturning of a guns and domestic violence law

By Marcia Coyle

All U.S. Supreme Court decisions have consequences but only a few jolt the legal system and the nation with immediate and long-term consequences.

Microsoft’s Activision Blizzard deal will hurt gamers, UK antitrust watchdog says

By Kelvin Chan, Associated Press

Microsoft's stalled $68.7 billion deal to buy video game company Activision Blizzard has hit a fresh hurdle in the United Kingdom.

China says it was smeared in President Biden’s State of the Union speech

By Associated Press

A Foreign Ministry spokesperson says China does not fear competing with the U.S. but is "opposed to defining the entire China-U.S. relationship in terms of competition."…

U.S. armed forces returning to Philippines to counter China threats

By Jim Gomez, Associated Press

Washington has been reinforcing an arc of military alliances in Asia in a starkly different post-Cold War era in which the perceived new regional threat is an increasingly belligerent China.

WATCH: Pentagon says China has conducted a spy balloon program for years

By Associated Press

The Chinese balloon shot down off the South Carolina coast was part of a large surveillance program that China has been conducting for “several years,” the Pentagon said Wednesday.

WATCH: Biden promotes economic agenda in Wisconsin, 1st event after State of the Union speech

By Darlene Superville, Chris Megerian, Associated Press

Workers lined up in orange shirts and hard hats behind the president as he spoke. A banner that said “union strong” hung to the side.

Read Biden’s full 2023 State of the Union remarks

By News Desk

"As we gather here tonight, we are writing the next chapter in the great American story," President Joe Biden told a joint session of Congress on Tuesday.