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First White House budget proposal to preview Biden's goals, Britain's Prince Philip dies aged 99 and medical experts challenge 'drug overdose' defense in Chauvin's trial

President Biden will release his first budget proposal to Congress, offering a long-awaited glimpse into a policy agenda that will mark a sharp departure from his predecessor, Donald Trump.

Joe Biden and his Attorney General Merrick Garland announced limited measures to tackle gun violence in the United States in what the White House described as a first step to curb mass shootings.

A gunman opened fire at a cabinet-making plant in Texas where he worked, killing one person and wounding six others before he was taken into custody.

Leaders of the U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee introduced legislation to boost the country’s ability to push back against China’s expanding global influence.

Medical experts used anatomical diagrams and charts to testify that George Floyd was killed by police pinning him to the ground, not a drug overdose, challenging a key assertion by Derek Chauvin in his murder trial.

↑ The motorcade of U.S. first lady Jill Biden passes along Pennsylvania Avenue outside the White House in Washington, U.S., April 7, 2021. REUTERS/Tom Brenner

World

↑ Britain's Prince Philip tours the Brompton bicycle factory in London, Britain November 28, 2016. REUTERS/Toby Melville

Prince Philip, husband of Queen Elizabeth and a leading figure in the British royal family for almost seven decades, has died aged 99, Buckingham Palace said.

Myanmar’s military junta said that a protest campaign against its rule was dwindling since people wanted peace while 18 ambassadors to the country called in a joint statement for the restoration of democracy.

Under pressure over Xinjiang, Beijing is widening its campaign to defend its policies amid mounting Western criticism, including U.S. sanctions and accusations of genocide.

Northern Ireland’s power-sharing government joined the White House, the British and Irish governments in urging calm after frustration among pro-British unionists over post-Brexit trade barriers helped trigger some of the worst violence in the region in years.

'This is war': Some Polish doctors and nurses are just taking naps between shifts as they fight a third wave of the coronavirus, the health minister said.

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Business

Roughly 500 ballots submitted in Amazon’s landmark union election have been challenged in a contest that will determine whether an Alabama warehouse becomes the online retailer’s first organized workplace in the United States, sources familiar with the matter said.

Impossible Foods is preparing for a public listing which could value the U.S. plant-based burger maker at around $10 billion or more, sources said.

The U.S. Commerce Department said it was adding seven Chinese supercomputing entities to a U.S. economic blacklist for assisting Chinese military efforts.

A massive trade in the U.S. options market appears to be betting that the calm enveloping U.S. stocks in recent weeks will give way to a big rise in volatility over the next three months.