Sri Lankan lawmakers voted in acting President Ranil Wickremesinghe as the new president on Wednesday, hoping his long experience in government can help pull the country out of a crippling economic and political crisis.

According to a release from the Justice Department two naturalized U.S. citizen have been charged with impeded the Federal Election Commission’s enforcement of election law by engaging in wire fraud conspiracy, money laundering conspiracy, and conspiracy to defraud the United States.

Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg dropped the murder charges against Jose Alba on Tuesday after a public outcry that the bodega employee was punished for merely defending himself.

The U.S. House of Representatives on Tuesday passed a bill protecting gay marriage rights, with 47 Republicans voting alongside all Democrats.

In the wake of the heightened tension on the abortion topic since the SCOTUS several of Roe v. Wade, Jim Harbaugh joined the discussion at a pro life event in Michigan.

The United States on Tuesday placed Russia on lists of countries engaged in a “policy or pattern” of human trafficking and forced labor or whose security forces or government-backed armed groups recruit or use child soldiers.

On Tuesday, Nassib went on ABC’s “Good Morning America” with former NFL lineman-turned-host Michael Strahan. Nassib explained his reasoning for why he chose to come out as gay, saying it was to pave the way for children to do the same.