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While moderate Democrat Senator Joe Manchin waves the flag of bipartisanship on voting rights, Minority Leader Mitch McConnell again seems intent on acting like a blockade.

Women may hold up half the sky, but when it comes to designing the public spaces and buildings in which they live, their voices have too often been silenced. A visionary project in Vienna aims to turn that notion on its head, with a suburb in the Austrian capital designed by and for women.

A piece of art by Winston Churchill will go under the hammer at New York auction house Phillips on June 23. "The Moat, Breccles," a signed 1921 oil landscape, has a backstory filled with celebrity, whale teeth, and the world's first ever superyacht.

More than 130,000 people have become Realtors since the beginning of the pandemic. Follow one new agent as he tries to make his first sale in one of the most competitive housing markets in the country.

Anti-Olympic protesters call for the Games to be cancelled with just over a month left until the July 23 Tokyo 2020 opening ceremony. A large percentage of Japanese residents remain sceptical that the biggest international event since the pandemic began will be safe.

A court in Hong Kong has denied bail to two executives of the pro-democracy newspaper Apple Daily. Editor-in-Chief Ryan Law and parent company CEO Cheung Kim-hung were arrested two days ago under the city's national security law. They have been charged with collusion with a foreign country to endanger national security in a case widely seen as an attack on press freedom in the semi-autonomous Chinese territory.

The Palestinian Authority has cancelled a deal with Israel to receive about one million Pfizer-BioNTech vaccines, saying the doses are about to expire. When Israel first announced the agreement it said they would expire soon, but did not say when. Under the deal, Israel said that the Palestinian Authority would have reimbursed them with a similar number of vaccines once they had received them from a pharmaceutical company in September or October.

Tropical Storm Claudette has formed and made landfall early Saturday morning along the Gulf Coast.. Claudette will bring the threat for flooding and tornadoes for much of the Southeast through the weekend. CNN meteorologist Tyler Mauldin has the latest.

The international scientific community has been closely following China's successful launch of Shenzhou-12, underscoring that the mission is a huge milestone in the country's manned space expeditions. China on Thursday launched the crewed spacecraft Shenzhou-12, sending three astronauts to its space station core module Tianhe for the construction of China's space station.

Metropolitan Police have said they arrested a total of 30 people in central London as part of the policing operation for England's Euros clash with Scotland.

England and Scotland played out a Euro 2020 stalemate at Wembley as the visitors frequently got the better of their hosts and the Three Lions failed to secure early passage to the knockout stages.