
A driver pays at a fuel pump at a GetGo gas station in Columbus, Ohio, on Monday. While Ohio residents pay some of the highest gas taxes and fees in the U.S., gas prices have increased so much there since the start of the Iran war that any reduction in taxes and fees would have a minimal impact.

Violence in Guerrero state has driven as many as 1,000 households from their homes, rights group says Hundreds of Indigenous families have been forced to flee their homes in the mountains of central Mexico by intense attacks from a local criminal group, including drone bombings, an Indigenous rights organisation said on Monday . A gang known as Los Ardillos has been carrying out attacks in Guerrero state for years, but they started to intensify last week. Villages were subjected to eight hours o

US president says he is considering restarting naval escorts in strait of Hormuz in attempt to end Iranian blockade Middle East crisis – live updates Donald Trump has said the ceasefire with Iran is on “life support” and that he is considering restarting US navy military escorts of ships through the strait of Hormuz in an attempt to end the Iranian blockade of the vital waterway. The US president dismissed Iran’s peace proposals as stupid, and denied he was under any domestic pressure to reach a
Americans from the hantavirus cruise ship are being assessed and monitored at the National Quarantine Unit in Nebraska. NBC News' Camila Bernal reports on where the passengers are staying.

Restoration work continues Friday at the reflecting pool on the National Mall.

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Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella.

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Zbigniew Ziobro has been accused in Poland of leading an organised criminal enterprise and abuse of power, which he denies Poland’s former justice minister Zbigniew Ziobro, wanted on several criminal charges in his home country, has fled Hungary to the United States, he confirmed on Sunday, after being granted asylum from former Hungarian prime minister Viktor Orbán’s government last year. “I am in the United States,” Ziobro told rightwing Polish broadcaster Republika. “I arrived yesterday, and

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Stuart Prior, who was elected in Essex last week, allegedly celebrated the rape of Sikh woman and called Muslim people ‘rats’ A Reform UK councillor has resigned days after being elected, after he allegedly celebrated on social media the rape of a Sikh woman in the Midlands, declared white people the “master race” and called Muslim people “rats”. Stuart Prior was elected as a councillor for Essex county council last Thursday, winning 2,404 votes, the highest total of any candidate in the ward. C

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FCC Commissioner Anna Gomez in Washington, D.C., on Jan. 14.