Bold new anti-union law signed in Michigan
Former N.Y. Gov. George Pataki responds to criticism over move being even more extreme than Wisconsin
Former N.Y. Gov. George Pataki responds to criticism over move being even more extreme than Wisconsin
The United States is gearing up for Cinco de Mayo. Music, all-day happy hours and deals on tacos are planned at venues across the country on Sunday — May 5 — in a celebration with widely misunderstood origins that is barely recognized south of the border. In the U.S., the date is largely seen as a celebration of Mexican American culture stretching back to the 1800s in California.
A well-known British-Palestinian surgeon who volunteered in Gaza hospitals said he was denied entry to France on Saturday to speak at a French Senate meeting about the Israel-Hamas war. Dr. Ghassan Abu Sitta was placed in a holding zone in the Charles de Gaulle airport and will be expelled, according to French Sen. Raymonde Poncet Monge, who had invited him to speak at the Senate. Abu Sitta posted on social networks that he was denied entry in France because of a one-year ban by Germany on his entry to Europe.
Warren Buffett will take hours of questions from shareholders on Saturday without his right-hand man, Charlie Munger, for the first time in decades.
After the closure of the island’s only standalone birth center in December 2022, medical professionals have been sounding the alarm for what they consider a “maternal care crisis” on Guam.
When Donald Trump held a rally in Rome, Georgia, in March, his audience included a second-generation supporter and first-time rallygoer named Luke Harris. “My parents were always supporters of him — especially when he was going against Hillary,” recalled Harris, who was in sixth grade in Cartersville, Georgia, when Trump defeated Hillary Clinton in 2016 to win the presidency. Harris, now a 19-year-old student at Kennesaw State University, “just grew up looking at him, listening, watching him,” h
Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., is facing a threat a few of his Republican predecessors can relate to: members of his own party vowing to oust him from power.
Artificial intelligence marks one of the biggest advances in military aviation since the introduction of stealth in the early 1990s. "We have to have it," Secretary Frank Kendall says.
Sadiq Khan won a third term as London’s mayor on Saturday, capping a round of local elections across England that confirmed the political supremacy of the Labour party and caused misery for Rishi Sunak’s government.
The death toll from floods and mudslides triggered by torrential storms in southern Brazil has climbed to 56 people, with 74 injured and another 67 missing, the country's civil defense agency said Saturday.And heavy rains of "very high severity" are expected to continue into Sunday, Civil Defense authorities said.
BERLIN — The Russian army is gradually expanding the role of women as it seeks to balance President Vladimir Putin’s promotion of traditional family roles with the need for new recruits for the war in Ukraine. The military’s stepped-up appeal to women includes efforts to recruit female inmates in prisons, replicating on a much smaller scale a strategy that has swelled its ranks with male convicts. Recruiters in military uniforms toured Russian jails for women in the fall of 2023, offering inmate
Movement is movement, right? Not exactly. Here’s what your body is looking for in addition to your morning walk or yoga session, according to experts.
Research has been inconclusive on the degree to which drinking alcohol leads to the growth of harmful fat. But a new study suggests that beer and spirits are far bigger culprits than wine.
German Interior Minister Nancy Faeser on Saturday vowed to fight a surge in violence against politicians after a German member of the European Parliament had to be taken to hospital after being attacked while campaigning for re-election. Matthias Ecke, 41, a member of Faeser's Social Democrats (SPD), was hit and kicked by a group of four people while putting up posters in Dresden, capital of the eastern state of Saxony, police said. An SPD source said his injuries would require an operation.
TULKARM, West Bank (Reuters) -Israeli forces killed five Palestinians in an overnight raid in a village near the city of Tulkarm in the occupied West Bank, according to the official Palestinian news agency Wafa, which cited Palestinian security sources. The security sources and a Reuters reporter at the scene said that Israeli forces had taken some of the bodies following the raid in the village of Deir al-Ghusun. The Israeli military said it was conducting "counterterrorism activities in the area".
Amid bruising college protests, Biden's Israel policy isn't changing, officials say, in part because of a concern about the prospects of a wider war in the Middle East
In this era of racial reckoning, words such as ‘white privilege’ have played a significant role in defining social problems plaguing America. But those words also have a downside.
A lot can go wrong when you're building a house. Experts say it's essential to stay involved throughout the process.
Two more states with near-total abortion bans are poised to have citizen-sponsored measures on the ballot this year that would allow voters to reverse those bans by establishing a right to abortion in their state constitutions. On Friday, a coalition of abortion rights groups in Missouri turned in 380,159 signatures to put the amendment on the ballot, more than double the 172,000 signatures required by law. The Missouri organizers’ announcement followed a petition drive in South Dakota that anno
PARIS — The world is watching what is happening on U.S. campuses with shock, pride, relish and alarm. Scenes from the protests — and of the arrests of protesters — have been top news around the world, from Colombia to Germany, Iran to France. In some countries, including France, students have staged protests of their own, though not with the scale and intensity of those in the United States. Some applaud the protests. Others, particularly in countries ruled by authoritarian regimes, view the cra
Being elected president shortly after surviving the publication of the leaked “Access Hollywood” tape in 2016 is the moment in which Donald Trump defied political gravity.