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WATCH: Colonial Pipeline CEO says ransom payment was among his ‘toughest decisions’

By Eric Tucker, Ben Fox, Associated Press

The chief executive of the massive fuel pipeline hit by ransomware last month will tell senators on Tuesday that authorizing a multi-million-dollar payment to hackers was the right thing to do to bring an end to fuel shortages affecting much…

Swaths of internet go down after cloud outage

By Kelvin Chan, Associated Press

Multiple websites went offline briefly across the globe Tuesday after an apparent outage at the cloud service company Fastly, and there were reports of sporadic disruptions after the company patched the problem about an hour later.

Senate report details sweeping failures around Jan. 6 attack

By Mary Clare Jalonick, Associated Press

A Senate investigation of the Jan. 6 insurrection at the U.S. Capitol has uncovered broad government, military and law enforcement missteps surrounding the violent attack.

After 2-year battle, House panel to interview Trump counsel McGahn

By Mary Clare Jalonick, Eric Tucker, Associated Press

The House Judiciary Committee is poised to question former White House counsel Don McGahn behind closed doors on Friday, two years after House Democrats originally sought his testimony as part of investigations into former President Donald Trump.

U.S. taps groups to pick asylum-seekers to allow into country

By Elliot Spagat, Julie Watson, Associated Press

The Biden administration has quietly tasked six humanitarian groups with recommending which migrants should be allowed to stay in the U.S. instead of being rapidly expelled from the country.

U.S. adds modest 559,000 jobs, a sign of more hiring struggles

By Christopher Rugaber, Associated Press

U.S. employers added 559,000 jobs in May, an improvement from April's sluggish gain but still evidence that many companies are struggling to find enough workers as the economy rapidly recovers from the pandemic recession.

Buckingham Palace barred minorities from office jobs in 1960s

By Danica Kirka, Associated Press

Buckingham Palace barred ethnic minorities from office jobs during the 1960s, the Guardian newspaper reported Thursday, citing documents in Britain's National Archives.

Crews removing barriers, memorials at George Floyd Square

By Associated Press

Crews removed concrete barriers as well as artwork, flowers and other memorial items on Thursday from a Minneapolis intersection that has become a sprawling memorial to George Floyd, whose death last year at the hands of police galvanized the racial…

Netanyahu foes push for quick vote to end his 12-year rule

By Laurie Kellman, Associated Press

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's opponents pushed Thursday for a quick parliament vote to formally end his lengthy rule, hoping to head off any last-minute attempts to derail their newly announced coalition government.

U.S. jobless claims drop to 385,000, another pandemic low

By Paul Wiseman, Associated Press

The number of Americans seeking unemployment benefits fell last week for a fifth straight week to a new pandemic low, the latest evidence that the U.S. job market is regaining its health as the economy further reopens.