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Norway said Thursday it had summoned the US embassy's top official in Oslo to lodge an official protest following a report that Washington had spied on Norwegian and other European leaders.more

Human remains have been discovered on a road next to Prince Harry and Meghan Markle’s home in California. The bones were dug up on May 24 in a road in Montecito, LA during landscaping work, a Santa Barbara Sheriff’s office spokesperson said.more

American cities are taking up the fight against climate change. For this purpose, they employ specialists who are to help in dealing with extreme weather phenomena.more

Millions of Americans could be left without a home soon when the national eviction ban expires this June. In Florida and South Carolina, 25% of renters are behind on their housing payments, whereas in Maine and Kentucky, 6% of adult renters could be evicted this month.more

Two people were killed and over 20 injured in a mass shooting in Miami early Sunday, the Miami-Dade Police Department said in a statement.more

In 2009 in Afganistanu in the middle of Taliban ambush this brave man Sgt. Corey Speck saved life of his Polish colleague severely injured in firing. Yesterday Speck received his full membership in the Polish Army Veterans’ Association.more

Abbey Bugenske, the winner of Ohio's first vaccine lottery drawing, was on a trip to get a used car when she found out she won $1 million. She says she hopes the lottery will encourage other people to get the COVID-19 vaccine.more

U.S. airlines and agencies are preparing for increased domestic air travel this summer even as the government continues to debate whether to allow more foreign travelers to visit.more

The New York Kosciuszko Foundation yesterday accused Democratic Congressman from Tennessee Steve Cohen of lying about blaming Poland for German concentration camps and demands an apology from him.more

The leader of the Republican minority in the House of Representatives, Kevin McCarthy, was outraged yesterday at his party's deputy Marjorie Taylor Greene, who compared the requirement to wear masks during the epidemic to the Holocaust. Other members of Congress also criticized it.more

President Joe Biden and Russia’s Vladimir Putin agreed Tuesday to meet next month in Geneva, a face-to-face encounter the White House hopes will help bring some predictability to a fraught relationship that’s only worsened in the first months of the Democratic administration.more

More than 130 cases of mysterious microwave weapons being used against US federal employees have been under investigation. Congressional lawmakers urge Biden's team to take the problem seriously.more

More than half of Republican Party voters, 53 percent, said they think Donald Trump is currently the "true president" of the United States, not Joe Biden, a new poll shows.more

For more than a half century, a wooden house on quiet 43rd Avenue in Elmhurst served as a cultural hub for Polish expats, welcoming artists, scholars and leaders who lived in New York City after escaping the post-World War II Iron Curtain.more

New York State adopts federal guidelines for people fully vaccinated against Covid-19. However, City Health Commissioner Dr. David Chokshi still recommends wearing face masks indoors.more

Microsoft was investigating its co-founder Bill Gates over a 20-year-old affair shortly before he stepped down from the company's board last year.more

Henry McCollum and Leon Brown spent nearly 31 years in prison for a brutal crime they did not commit - one they were convicted of on the basis of confessions that they insisted, for decades, had been coerced.more

President Joe Biden welcomed the lifting by the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) of the requirement for fully vaccinated people to wear face masks. He called it "America's big day."more

All adults in the US state of Ohio who have received at least one dose of the Covid-19 vaccine will be able to enter the lottery, and the prize will be one million dollars. The campaign is to encourage vaccinations, with a total of five million dollar prizes.more

Coronavirus vaccines will be made available to more children in the United States as regulators on Monday expanded use of the Pfizer-BioNTech jab to those as young as 12, sparking a race to protect students before they head back to class later this year.more

White House chief medical advisor Dr. Anthony Fauci said Sunday that people may decide to wear masks during certain seasons when respiratory illnesses are more prevalent.more

The Polish-American community is shocked by yet another case of desecration of the monument to Fr. Jerzy Popiełuszko in New York's Greenpoint. Her indignation is shared by local politicians. The police have opened an investigation into the hate crime.more

Eric Nelson, a defense attorney for ex-policeman Derek Chauvin convicted by the jury of the murder of black George Floyd, has requested a new trial. He justified it with the shortcomings that were supposed to occur during the first one.more

On Wednesday, somewhere over the Pacific, a woman who didn't know she was pregnant gave birth to a baby boy. Lavinia "Lavi" Mounga was flying from Salt Lake City to Honolulu on April 28 for a vacation when she gave birth to her son, Raymond.more

Bill and Melinda Gates have announced their divorce after 27 years of marriage, saying "we no longer believe we can grow together as a couple".more