Pope denounces "intolerable brutality" in Iraq and Syria
Pope Francis denounces violence, kidnapping and harassment against Christians and other religious groups in Iraq and Syria and prays for all victims. Vanessa Johnston reports.
Pope Francis denounces violence, kidnapping and harassment against Christians and other religious groups in Iraq and Syria and prays for all victims. Vanessa Johnston reports.
The United States and Japan are sponsoring a U.N. Security Council resolution calling on all nations not to deploy or develop nuclear weapons in space, the U.S. ambassador announced Monday. Linda Thomas-Greenfield told a U.N. Security Council meeting that “any placement of nuclear weapons into orbit around the Earth would be unprecedented, dangerous, and unacceptable.” The announcement that the U.S. and Japan had circulated a resolution follows White House confirmation last month that Russia has obtained a “troubling” anti-satellite weapon capability, although such a weapon is not operational yet.
The Biden campaign and allied Democratic groups denounced Trump’s comments.
The uber-confident 81-year-old billionaire is in the hot seat after an investor exodus and employee tensions rattled his hedge fund, Trian Partners.
President Joe Biden will host Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida and Philippines President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. for a White House summit next month amid growing concerns about North Korea's nuclear program, provocative Chinese action in the South China Sea and differences over a Japanese company's plan to buy an iconic American steel company. White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre in a statement on Monday said the first-ever U.S.-Japan-Philippines leaders’ summit is an opportunity to highlight the countries’ “growing economic relations, a proud and resolute commitment to shared democratic values and a shared vision for a free and open Indo-Pacific."
Donald Trump faced having assets seized in a humiliating blow to his carefully cultivated image as a self-made tycoon as his lawyers acknowledged Monday he doesn't have the cash to appeal a $464 million fine for fraudulently inflating his wealth."Defendants have faced what have proven to be insurmountable difficulties in obtaining an appeal bond for the full $464 million," Trump Organization general counsel Alan Garten said in a filing to the court.
Asparagus has a unique taste and a ton of nutritional benefits, including fiber, antioxidants, vitamins and minerals that can aid in digestive and heart health.
Dr. Dre is opening up about the time he was hospitalized for a brain aneurysm three years ago. While on James Corden's podcast last week, "This Life of Mine," the record producer and rapper shared that while he was hospitalized for a brain aneurysm, doctors told him that he also suffered three strokes. Dre said he had no warning signs or symptoms before the day he ended up in the hospital.
Internal Revenue Service Commissioner Danny Werfel said on Monday that the tax agency will need to boost its workforce to over 100,000 people over the next three years to achieve its modernization, service and enforcement goals and additional funding will be needed to maintain that extra capacity. Werfel told reporters on his first anniversary in the IRS' top job that near-term hiring will focus on improving taxpayer services and on handling complex audits. He added that the IRS will detail its hiring plans next month in an update to its strategic operating plan for deploying some $60 billion in supplemental funding over a decade from the 2022 Inflation Reduction Act.
Latino organizations and civil rights groups filed a friend of the court brief against a lawsuit filed by conservative legal activist Edward Blum to stop a Smithsonian internship designed to draw more Latinos into museum studies and jobs.
Cuba’s Foreign Ministry delivered a note expressing the complaint to the chargé d’affaires at the U.S. diplomatic mission in Havana, Benjamin Ziff. On Sunday, protesters took to the streets in the eastern city of Santiago decrying power outages lasting up to eight hours and shortages of food. State media confirmed the protests in Santiago, while the U.S. Embassy in Havana said there were also reports of protests in a number of other provinces across the island.
Author Mitch Albom was among those rescued by helicopter in an escape plan coordinated by Rep. Cory Mills.
Former President Donald Trump can’t find an insurance company to underwrite his bond to cover the massive judgment against him in the New York attorney general’s civil fraud case, his lawyers told a New York appeals court.
Eddie Parker and Michael Jenkins said they were often not believed when they tried, for months, to tell people about the grueling violence and torture they endured at the hands of six White law enforcement officers one night last year, culminating in Jenkins being shot in the mouth.
Ten days since University of Missouri student Riley Strain vanished, more details have emerged about his movements before he disappeared in Nashville, Tennessee.
Regina King talks about grappling with grief after the death of her only son, Ian Alexander, Jr. Please note this story discusses suicide.
The Picasso Museum in Malaga, the southern Spanish city where the artist was born, will open a new exhibition on Tuesday which groups his works according to theme instead of by period.Opened in 2003 in a 16th century mansion, Malaga's Picasso Museum is located just a couple of hundred metres (yards) from the house where the artist was born in 1881.
Former Trump White House adviser Peter Navarro hopes to spend his next few months working in air conditioning and sleeping in a dormitory for “elderly” male inmates at a prison next to a zoo.
The Michelin Guide unveiled its annual list of the best French restaurants Monday, praising the "cultural dynamism" of a new generation of chefs, though again honouring only a handful of women.Among top chefs, the Michelin Guide is as feared and criticised as it is respected.
What to expect from Aries season 2024: How will your zodiac sign be affected? Here are horoscopes for the season with dates spanning March 19 to April 19.
New Jersey's one-of-a-kind method of drawing primary ballots prompted some apparent skepticism from a federal judge Monday as he considered a legal challenge claiming the system favors preferred candidates of establishment party leaders. The hearing Monday in federal court in Trenton unfolded a day after the state attorney general said he considered the longstanding system unconstitutional. The lawsuit was filed by Democratic Rep. Andy Kim and others seeking to stop the state's so-called county line system of primary ballot design.