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A Canadian military surveillance aircraft detected underwater noises as a massive search continued early Wednesday in a remote part of the North Atlantic for a submersible that vanished while taking five people down to the wreck of the Titanic.

In the year 2000, the US government debt was $3.5 trillion, equal to 35% of the country's gross domestic product (GDP). By 2022, the debt was $24 trillion, equal to 95% of GDP. The US debt is soaring, hence America's current debt crisis. Yet both Republicans and Democrats are missing the solution: stopping America's wars of choice and slashing military outlays.

Hunter Biden, son of US President Joe Biden, has agreed to plead guilty to three federal charges related to taxes and firearms, world news agencies reported.

There are five people in the submarine.
Contact with the small submarine was lost about an hour and 45 minutes after it dived on Sunday. A rescue operation has been launched, but so far there is no sign of the submarine, the BBC reported.
As of Monday afternoon, the crew were thought to have had about four days' worth of oxygen left.

President Joe Biden has appealed to blue-collar workers to support his re-election quest and help him compel the richest Americans to pay more taxes.

"It's about time the super wealthy start paying their fair share," Biden told hundreds of union workers in the industrial state of Pennsylvania on June 17.

The US Embassy in Athens and its Consular Section, the US Consulate General in Thessaloniki, and all US Government offices in Greece will be closed on Monday in observance of Juneteenth, the federal US holiday commemorating the emancipation of enslaved African Americans.

Former US President Donald Trump said on Tuesday that he pleads not guilty to charges that he smuggled classified documents out of the White House.

Trump appeared in federal court in Florida, setting off a legal battle that is likely to play out over the months as Trump campaigns for the November 2024 presidential election.

Donald Trump arrived in Florida on Monday ahead of a history-making federal court appearance on dozens of felony charges accusing him of illegally hoarding classified documents and thwarting the Justice Department's efforts to get them back.

Illinois Secretary of State Alexi Giannoulias has spearheaded a law that made his state the first in the U.S. to effectively ban book bans.

Former US vice president Mike Pence launched his presidential campaign Wednesday by framing the Republican nomination as a choice between "reckless" Donald Trump and the Constitution -- arguing that his old boss's bid to overturn the last election should bar him from returning in 2024.