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Debt ceiling breach could wipe out 8 million jobs, White House warns  The Washington Post Scrambling to Avoid Default, White House Weighs Debt-Limit Fallback Options  The Wall Street Journal Debt ceiling: GOP lawmakers reject short-term debt limit increase  USA TODAY How a US

Homeless subway chokehold victim Jordan Neely became ‘complete mess’ after mom was brutally murdered by stepfather: aunt  New York Post Man dies after being put in a chokehold on NYC subway  NBC News Death on the F: Homicide of Jordan Neely on

White House details ‘severe damage’ in debt ceiling crisis  NBC News White House warns of recession as debt limit fight drags on  The Associated Press White House warns debt default could wipe out 8 million jobs, plunge stock market  CNN

A prominent young critic of the Laotian government who reportedly died after being shot by an unidentified gunman last weekend was revealed to have survived—though as of Thursday he remains hospitalized, and his attacker remains at large. Anousa “Jack” Luangsuphom,

Clarence Thomas Raised Him. Harlan Crow Paid His Tuition.  ProPublica Billionaire Harlan Crow paid for Justice Thomas’ child to attend private school: report  MSNBC Analysis | Billionaire paid tuition for Justice Clarence Thomas’s grandnephew, report says  The Washington Post The potential gift tax

Ukraine war live updates: Russia says it will respond to Kremlin drone ‘attack’; Ukraine says drone incident was staged  CNBC Retired colonel analyzes video of alleged drone attack on Kremlin  CNN Russia reviles ‘ISIS-like’ Zelensky regime; ‘Use any weapon capable of destroying

Outrage builds as death of homeless New York subway rider placed in chokehold ruled a homicide  Axios Man dies after being put in a chokehold on NYC subway  NBC News Death on the F: Homicide of Jordan Neely on the subway demands

The police operation, coordinated by European Union judicial cooperation agency Eurojust, aimed to dismantle a network that includes the ‘ndrangheta, Colombian drug producers and paramilitary groups. (Image credit: Sebastian Gollnow/AP)

Learning American pop culture while attending college during a war: Students in Dnipro, Ukraine, and Golden, Colo., form an unlikely connection. (Image credit: Kenneth Osgood)

Revolutions do not happen only in the streets. Yet the outside world knows the uprising in Iran almost entirely through footage uploaded from camera phones—the thousands upon thousands chanting for the fall of the regime in cities and towns across