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Iran says it will begin enriching uranium to a level closer to weapons grade and stop allowing inspections unless the U.S. lifts economic sanctions. The move seems designed to pressure the Biden administration to re-enter the 2015 nuclear deal that Trump abandoned.
Senator David Perdue, a Georgia Republican, has been the Senate’s most prolific stock trader during his time in office — by himself accounting for nearly one-third of all transactions by senators in the past six years.
The Trump administration is changing the U.S. citizenship test. The new version will ask 20 questions rather than 10, including some with a more conservative framing. (Test your own knowledge here.)
Barack Obama said progressives should avoid calls to “defund the police,” arguing it turns off voters and gets in the way of change. He also chided Democrats for not giving Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, a progressive star, a bigger platform at the Democratic National Convention.
Starting next month, only dogs will be allowed as service animals aboard U.S. flights. The new rules will consider other emotional support animals as pets.
A crowdfunding campaign is seeking to raise at least $5.3 million to buy the longtime home of J.R.R. Tolkien — where he wrote “The Hobbit” and much of the “Lord of the Rings” trilogy — and turn it into a museum.
The New York Times