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President Joe Biden is making a big bet on the US economy powering him to re-election next year with the unveiling of a "Bidenomics" pitch to voters this week.

New home sales in the United States surged unexpectedly in May, the Commerce Department said Tuesday, reaching the highest rate in over a year despite efforts to cool the economy.

Many of the rescued chimpanzees were previously in solitary confinement and had never interacted with others of their kind before.

A total of 1,000 respondents participated in the NBC News poll, conducted from June 16 to June 20, and the overall margin of error was plus or minus 3.1 percentage points.

The experimental drug has been tested in a phase II clinical trial by pharmaceutical company Eli Lilly.

Ivanka Trump said last year that she and her husband Jared Kushner would not be joining her father's reelection campaign.

MrBeast, a YouTuber who is known for attempting various scary activities such as getting buried alive and staying in Antarctica for 50 hours – someone supposedly known to defy fear for entertainment – expressed fear over the thought that he could've been on the imploded Titan submersible.

Fellow Republican presidential candidate and former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie called his speech "absurd."

A 23-year-old who shot five people dead at an LGBTQ club in the US state of Colorado last year pleaded guilty on Monday and will face life in prison.

"They also want no voter ID because they want to cheat on elections," Trump said, adding, "They don't want same-day voting. They don't want paper ballots. They never want any of this stuff because they want to cheat on elections ... "

The U.S. Department of Justice hoped the latest verdict would serve as a warning to malicious actors and the broader cybercrime community.

The remains were found by hikers from California, nearly 40 miles northeast of Los Angeles.

Southern United States is experiencing extreme weather conditions, with more than 500,000 customers across five states plunged in the dark and millions under heat advisories in Texas.

Some of the country's biggest retailers have been the target of ransom bomb threats in recent weeks, WSJ reported. Some callers demand money, others want thousands worth of gift cards, while one caller reportedly asked for Bitcoin. Walmart, Target, Meijer, Kroger, Whole Foods and Kohl's have been targeted.

The 65-year-old woman was convicted last year of being an accessory after the fact to the murder, obstruction of justice, and perjury before the grand jury.

The decision overturns a previous nationwide block that was imposed by a federal judge in Texas last year. The policy had been in effect for less than a year before it was halted.

A section of one of America's busiest highways, which collapsed some two weeks ago after a fire, reopened Friday, officials said.

Freeman admitted he had sex with the 80-year-old fellow resident but claimed the intercourse was consensual.

"This is not an effort to punish drivers, we are simply working to change behavior, build responsible driving, and of course public safety," Sen. Rosemary Brown, R-Pa., who pushed for tougher restrictions, previously said.

Stockton Rush was also the descendant of prolific 18th-century writer Annis Stockton.

Elon Musk issued the challenge in a tweet published Wednesday.

This week, the FDA sent the warning letters, while the CDC released important reports on e-cigarette sales and related reports to poison centers.

The unborn son was pronounced dead after delivery, while the mother died a few hours after she was shot in the back.

U.S. defense officials said the sounds were picked up by a top-secret military acoustic detection system shortly after the submersible lost communication with the surface vessel nearly two hours after starting its descent.

The Carroll County branch of the NAACP condemned the use of photos as targets.

A "debris field" has been discovered by an underwater robot searching near the wreck of the Titanic for a missing submersible with five people on board, rescuers said Thursday.

The cats will be up for adoption this week.

Like other pet-owner relationships, Colubra said one of his worst fears is Elvis dying.

Half of Americans believe U.S. President Joe Biden's son, Hunter Biden, received preferential treatment from prosecutors who reached a deal that would allow the younger Biden to plead guilty to tax charges but avoid a gun-related conviction, a Reuters/Ipsos poll found.