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New York (AP) — Surgeons transplanted a pig’s kidney into a brain-dead man and for over a month it’s worked normally — a critical step toward an operation the New York team hopes to eventually try in living patients. Scientists around the country are racing to learn how to use animal organs to save human lives, and bodies donated for …

An Atlanta-based grand jury has indicted Donald Trump and 18 others on state charges stemming from their efforts to overturn the former president’s 2020 electoral defeat, the CNN reports. The historic 41-count indictment unsealed Monday is the fourth criminal case that Trump is facing. Trump and others “joined a conspiracy to unlawfully change the outcome” of the election, according to …

United Sates Departments of State, Labor, and Commerce today issued a Business Advisory on South Sudan, as contained in a statement released by State Department Spokesperson, Matthew Miller.  The Advisory highlights the growing reputational, financial, and legal risks to U.S. businesses and Americans conducting business or transactions with companies that have significant ties to South Sudan’s extended transitional government or …

United States Secretary of State, Antony J. Blinken called and spoke today with Nigerian President, Bola Ahmed Tinubu, according to a statement released by the Department’s Spokesperson, Matthew Miller. During the call, Blinken commended President Tinubu’s leadership of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) Second Extraordinary Summit on the situation in the Republic of Niger. He noted the …

United States Special Envoy for Yemen Tim Lenderking is traveling today Monday August 14, 2023, to the Gulf to advance ongoing UN-led efforts to expand the truce and launch a comprehensive peace process, according to the State Department’s office of the Spokesperson. “The United States is committed to supporting a resolution to the Yemen conflict as soon as possible. We …

WASHINGTON — When the Justice Department was announcing the highest-profile prosecution in its history in Washington, Attorney General Merrick Garland was 100 miles away, meeting with local police in Philadelphia. He stepped outside briefly to speak about how the decision to indict Donald Trump for conspiracy to overturn the 2020 election came from career prosecutors and was led by a special counsel …

Former President Donald Trump has pleaded not guilty to four criminal charges related to his efforts to overturn the 2020 presidential election, the CNN reports. His arrest and arraignment came in the same Washington, DC, courthouse that had a direct view of the violence that unfurled at the US Capitol on January 6, 2021, and where over 1,000 Trump supporters …

WASHINGTON — Congress responded to the fiery train derailment in eastern Ohio earlier this year with bipartisan alarm, holding a flurry of hearings about the potential for railroad crashes to trigger even larger disasters. Both parties agreed that a legislative response was needed. Yet six months after life was upended in East Palestine, little has changed. While President Joe Biden and former President Donald …

NEW YORK — The 2024 election will determine whether Donald Trump returns to the White House. It could also decide if he’ll face time behind bars. For Trump, who’s now facing his third criminal indictment — this time for his efforts to overturn the 2020 election and block the transfer of presidential power — winning is about more than ego, redemption, score-settling or the …

Donald Trump has been indicted on criminal charges by a federal grand jury in a case that strikes at the former president’s efforts to remain in the White House after losing the 2020 election and undermine the long-held American tradition of a peaceful transfer of presidential power. Trump is scheduled to appear at the Washington, DC, federal courthouse at 4 …