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LONDON, ENGLAND - JANUARY 12: A protester holds a sign outside the Houses of Parliament after the weekly PMQ's on January 12, 2022 in London, England. During Prime Minister's Questions today Boris Johnson told the House that he joined staff in the garden of 10 Downing Street for 25 minutes shortly after 6pm on May 20, 2020, during Coronavirus lockdown. He said that he “believed implicitly that this was a work event” and returned to work in No 10 afterwards. Leader of the Scottish Conservative Party, Douglas Ross, called for Johnson to resign. (Photo by Dan Kitwood/Getty Images)

Boris Johnson apologizes for a BYOB party held as the U.K. was in COVID lockdown

Labour Party leader Keir Starmer called Prime Minister Boris Johnson's apology worthless, adding that his defense is that "he didn't realize he was at a party."

FILE - Clyde Bellecourt, co-founder or the American Indian Movement, speaks on Jan. 26, 2018, at Minneapolis City Hall, in Minneapolis. Bellecourt, a leader in the Native American struggle for civil rights and a founder of the American Indian Movement, has died. He was 85. Bellecourt died Tuesday , Jan. 11, 2022, from cancer at his home in Minneapolis, Peggy Bellecourt, his wife, told the Star Tribune. (AP Photo/Amy Forliti File)

Clyde Bellecourt, co-founder of the American Indian Movement, dies of cancer at 85

Bellecourt died on Tuesday night in Minneapolis, where more than 50 years ago he helped launch the American Indian Movement.

This photo provided by the North Korean government shows what it says a test launch of a hypersonic missile on Jan. 11, 2022 in North Korea. Independent journalists were not given access to cover the event depicted in this image distributed by the North Korean government. The content of this image is as provided and cannot be independently verified. Korean language watermark on image as provided by source reads: "KCNA" which is the abbreviation for Korean Central News Agency. (Korean Central News Agency/Korea News Service via AP)

U.S. hits North Korean officials with sanctions after missile test

The U.S. is also proposing U.N. sanctions in response to North Korea's six ballistic missile launches since September, each of which it says "were in violation of UN Security Council resolutions."

Just 29 of the 253 full-time lawmakers in Pennsylvania post some information online about how they spend taxpayer dollars in their duties, despite many proclaiming, “It’s Your Money.” Jose F. Moreno / The Philadelphia Inquirer

Republican-flavored congressional redistricting plan passes PA House, but there’s still a long way to go

The proposed congressional redistricting map passed along party lines.

FULLERTON, CALIFORNIA - DECEMBER 09: An Amtrak worker walks next to an Amtrak train during a station stop on December 9, 2021 in Fullerton, California. Amtrak is having difficulty hiring and retaining employees as a nationwide labor shortage has left the national intercity rail carrier down 1,500 workers since the beginning of the pandemic. The railroad is set to terminate unvaccinated workers on January 4th which may force them to reduce the frequency of long-distance service. (Photo by Mario Tama/Getty Images)

Amtrak paid $2 million to travelers with disabilities in a discrimination settlement

The money is part of a settlement agreed to in 2020 after the Justice Department found that Amtrak violated the Americans with Disabilities Act by failing to meet accessibility standards.

Democratic presidential candidate former Vice President Joe Biden walks on stage to begin the first presidential debate Tuesday, Sept. 29, 2020, at Case Western University and Cleveland Clinic, in Cleveland, Ohio. (AP Photo/Julio Cortez)

Republicans threaten to skip traditional general election debates

The Republican National Committee has released a letter outlining complaints and will ask presidential nominees not to participate in debates put on by the Commission on Presidential Debates.

Prince Andrew is stripped of his royal patronages and military titles

The move comes with Queen Elizabeth II's "approval and agreement," Buckingham Palace said. The announcement comes one day after Prince Andrew lost his bid to quash a sex-abuse lawsuit.

Virginia Beach Police used forged DNA reports to get confessions, investigation finds

The state's attorney general's office said officers would present to suspects documents with forged letterhead and contact information and, in two cases, a signature from a made-up employee.

FILE - This aerial photo shows the Bonanza Creek Ranch in Santa Fe, N.M., on Saturday, Oct. 23, 2021. A judge on Friday, Dec. 10, has decided that the assistant director who handed Alec Baldwin a prop gun that killed a cinematographer on a New Mexico film set must make himself available for an interview with state workplace safety regulators. Local news outlets reported that a district judge on Friday granted the state officials' request to issue a subpoena to Dave Halls, assistant director for the movie "Rust." (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong, File)

The 'Rust' armorer is suing the film's ammo supplier over the deadly, on-set shooting

Hannah Gutierrez Reed, the armorer and key props assistant on the movie set, said in the complaint that she bought live ammunition she believed to be dummy rounds.

Firefighters work at the scene of a fatal fire at an apartment building in the Bronx on Sunday. (Yuki Iwamura/AP Photo)

With low temperatures, home heating fires become more common

Heating equipment is the second-largest cause of home fires nationally. They tend to occur in winter as people try to get the chill out of their homes.

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