The Justice Department has charged 11 defendants with seditious conspiracy related to the Capitol attack on January 6, 2021, including the leader of the Oath Keepers, Stewart Rhodes.

Rhodes' lawyer, Jonathan Moseley, confirmed the arrest.

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Britain's Prince Andrew has been stripped of his military titles and charities, Buckingham Palace announced on Thursday.

The announcement comes the day after a judge ruled a sexual abuse civil lawsuit against the Queen's son could proceed in New York.

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The House of Representatives on Thursday passed voting legislation ahead of a visit from President Joe Biden to Capitol Hill to make the case for action on voting rights, a key priority for Democrats that faces major obstacles.

The Democratic-controlled House approved a measure that combined two voting bills: the Freedom to Vote Act and the John Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act. It will next be sent to the Senate where a high-profile fight awaits amid Republican opposition and resistance among some Democrats to changing Senate rules.

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President Joe Biden on Thursday announced his administration will purchase an additional 500 million Covid-19 tests and said he will soon detail plans for his administration make high-quality masks free to Americans.

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A key inflation measure climbed to a record high in 2021, as pandemic price hikes just aren't going away.

The US producer price index, which tracks what American producers get paid for their goods and services on average over time - rose 9.7% last year.

But it was a slightly smaller advance than economists had predicted.

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The House select committee investigating the January 6 riot is asking Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy, a California Republican, to voluntarily provide information to the panel, a major development in the sweeping investigation, according to a new letter released Wednesday.

The request marks a significant development in the ongoing investigation as the committee is now seeking cooperation from the top Republican in the House.

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The US consumer price inflation index rose 7% over the past year, the steepest climb in prices since June 1982, the Bureau of Labor Statistics reported Wednesday. 

It was also a faster rate of increase than November's 6.8%, and higher than economists had predicted. 

The food price index climbed 6.3%, while the energy cost index rose 29.3% over the past year.

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Boris Johnson has apologized for attending an event in the back garden of 10 Downing Street on May 20, 2020, at which point Britons were prohibited from gathering due to strict coronavirus restrictions.

At the start of the weekly session of Prime Minister's Questions, Johnson said he did attend the gathering for 25 minutes before going inside to work. He said he believed the gathering to be a work event, but with hindsight conceded he should have sent attendees back inside.

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An unusual ground stop was issued to some pilots for a short period of time following a North American Aerospace Defense Command alert of a launch of a North Korean missile, a US official said Tuesday.

The official says it was not a national ground stop and may have been issued by a regional air traffic control facility."No warning was issued by NORAD HQ," regarding a potential threat to the US, according to Captain Pamela Kunze, the chief NORAD spokesperson.

The Federal Aviation Administration, responsible for the nation's air traffic control system, and NORAD have not responded to CNN's multiple requests for comment on why some pilots were ordered to land and prevented from taking off from multiple West Coast airports on Monday afternoon, citing a "national ground stop."

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Covid-19 hospitalizations in the US have reached a new record high.

According to data from the Department of Health and Human Services, more than145-thousand people are currently hospitalized with Covid-19 -- about twice as many as two weeks ago.

Hospitalizations previously reached a peak in January last year, with more than 142,000 people at the time.

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