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The hazardous poison hemlock is more visible in Ohio this year than ever before, experts say. The plant can be mistaken for Queen Anne's Lace.

President Biden has been briefed on a plan which would end the expulsions of migrant families at the border by July 31, according to an Axios report published Sunday. The Biden administration has been in talks with the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU)...

The Russian Ambassador to the US, Anatoly Antonov, has returned to Washington, DC, after spending almost three months in Moscow, the Russian embassy tweeted Sunday, days after US President Joe Biden and Russian President Vladimir Putin agreed to send...

Axios reported that Trump has done at least 22 interviews for books, and his advisers see this as a strong sign of high interest in him.