The Justice Department on Tuesday said it fired Desiree Leigh Grace as the newly appointed U.S. Attorney for the District of New Jersey, hours after federal judges in the state chose her over President Donald Trump's pick, Alina Habba.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Hundreds of thousands of doses of mpox vaccine that the United States had promised to send to African nations are in danger of going to waste, dozens of congressional Democrats said in a letter to the U.

The US State Department confirmed that a US Patent and Trademark Office employee has been barred from leaving China, and said officials were working to resolve the situation.

The State Department did not say how he came to be released alongside a group of “wrongfully detained” prisoners.

Among the scores of offices the U.S. State Department eliminated last week in its dramatic revamp, the shuttering of one little-known office has raised particular alarm among U.S. diplomats.

Iran's state television says an Iranian navy helicopter has confronted a U.S. warship attempting to approach Iranian territorial waters in the Gulf of Oman

Federal officials are seeking Wisconsin voter registration data as part of a broader effort to gather information about elections in states.

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