Buckingham Palace has announced the death of Britain’s Queen Elizabeth II, aged 96, ending her 70-year reign.
The Queen died at Balmoral, her private Scottish home this afternoon at the age of 96. She was Britain’s longest-ever reigning Monarch, at 70 years and 214 days.
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Liz Truss became U.K. prime minister on Tuesday and immediately confronted the enormous task ahead of her amid increasing pressure to curb soaring prices, ease labor unrest and fix a health care system burdened by long waiting lists and staff shortages.
At the top of her in-box is the energy crisis triggered by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, which threatens to push energy bills to unaffordable levels, shuttering businesses and leaving the nation’s poorest people shivering in icy homes this winter.
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Russian state-controlled bank VTB announced that it has set up a system to send money transfers to China in yuan without using the SWIFT messaging system, bypassing international sanctions and sparking more fears of increased cooperation between China and Russia.
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Senior Senate Democrats are discussing the possibility of including legislation to protect gay marriage rights in a government funding bill, a Capitol Hill Democratic source told Fox News Digital.
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Officials are asking Californians to use less electricity as the state faces record demand for energy on Tuesday, creating the possibility for rolling blackouts in the midst of a heat wave.
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A new version of the Journalism Competition and Preservation Act (JCPA) is circulating that is worse than the original. It allows mainstream, legacy and left-wing media to form exclusionary media cartels and then empowers them with extraordinary collective-bargaining power to collude with Big Tech companies. The amendments serve only to spell out in greater specificity how to exclude conservative and anti-establishment media from any alleged benefits.
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Seventeen states may be required to follow California’s mandate to ban the sales of almost all gasoline-powered cars by 2035 and to require the purchase of electric vehicles — even though some states are already struggling to meet current electricity demand.
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The Russian energy giant Gazprom scrapped its Saturday deadline and indefinitely extended its gas cuts to Europe.
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As Biden’s advisor, Podesta will be in charge of allocating $370 billion in funding allocated in the so-called “Inflation Reduction Act” to green energy projects backed by some of Wall Street’s wealthiest liberal investors.
Podesta told the Times he would focus on the goal of transforming America away from oil and fossil fuels.
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The Taiwanese Defense Ministry delivered a report to the legislature on Thursday that said China’s belligerent military exercises around the island included “combat drills to carry out simulated attacks on U.S. ships that enter into the first island chain.”
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President Joe Biden condemned supporters of former President Donald Trump on Thursday night in a speech that was promoted as a mission to restore “the soul of the nation.”
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