Police, anti-Trump protesters face off in D.C.
Police and anti-Trump protesters have been squaring off in downtown Washington, D.C., just blocks from the White House. Rough Cut (no reporter narration).
Police and anti-Trump protesters have been squaring off in downtown Washington, D.C., just blocks from the White House. Rough Cut (no reporter narration).
The Biden administration on Thursday restored rules to protect imperiled plants and animals that had been rolled back back under former President Donald Trump. Among the changes announced, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service will reinstate a decades-old regulation that mandates blanket protections for species newly classified as threatened. The blanket protections regulation was dropped in 2019 as part of a suite of changes to the application of the species law under Trump that were encouraged by industry.
Russia's top investigative body said Thursday that another suspect has been detained as an accomplice in the attack by gunmen on a suburban Moscow concert hall that killed 143 people. A statement from the Investigative Committee said the latest person detained was involved in financing Friday's attack on the Crocus City concert hall in which gunmen shot people who were waiting for a show by a popular rock band and then set the building on fire.
The Oscar -nominated documentary “ Food, Inc ” helped change the way many consumers think about the systems behind the things we eat. The campaign, announced Thursday, is in partnership with: The Open Markets Institute, a non-profit monopoly watchdog supported by Senators Cory Booker and John Tester; The Coalition of Immokalee Workers, supporting the rights of farmworkers; And FoodFight USA, the nonpartisan movement started by entrepreneurs Todd Wagner and Lori McCreary with a goal of “cleaning up” the American food supply which they estimate is 70% ultra-processed foods. In October, California became the first state to ban four chemicals from processed food and drinks sold in California by 2027.
Latvia’s top diplomat said on Thursday he will step down in the wake of a criminal probe over the use of expensive private flights by his office when he acted as the Baltic country’s prime minister between 2019-2023. Following a meeting with Prime Minister Evika Silina, Foreign Minister Krisjanis Karins told reporters that he will leave his post on April 10, enabling lawmakers at the Saeima, or parliament, to vote on his successor the next day. Last week, the prosecutor general’s office announced it was launching criminal proceedings over the alleged waste of public money through the use of private aviation services by Karins and accompanying delegations during his time as a prime minister.
Two years of talks towards striking a landmark global agreement on pandemic prevention were headed for overtime Thursday, with a breakthrough still elusive.Countries remain sharply at odds over what they are prepared to do for each other when the next pandemic strikes.
Russia's Investigative Committee says it has evidence that the Tajik gunmen accused of killing at least 143 people at a concert hall near Moscow last week were linked to Ukrainian nationalists. Ukraine denies involvement, and the U.S. says Islamic State - which claimed the attack - bears sole responsibility. Here is what we know about the suspects held by Russia and what has happened to them since they were detained.
The sentence was handed down almost five months after a jury found Bankman-Fried guilty of orchestrating a massive fraud centered on his crypto empire.
The collapse of Baltimore's Key Bridge has highlighted what engineers say is an urgent need to better protect the piers holding up spans over shipping channels as the size of cargo ships has grown in recent decades. Federal authorities continue an investigation into why a massive cargo ship lost power and crashed into a pier of the Francis Scott Key Bridge early Tuesday, bringing down the structure and killing six workers who had been filling potholes atop it. The Maryland Transportation Authority did not respond to questions about what, if any, protections were in place for the Key Bridge's foundation piers -- which bore the weight of the structure and all the vehicles on it -- and whether updates might have been needed.
Former billionaire Sam Bankman-Fried was convicted for orchestrating a massive financial fraud that led to downfall of crypto trading platform FTX.
Two bodies were recovered Wednesday as four more are still missing and presumed dead, leaving the families of victims in the Francis Scott Key Bridge collapse in Baltimore in mourning.
Israel has agreed to reschedule talks on Rafah that it called off in protest just days ago; State Department official Annelle Sheline resigned and a new Gallup poll found that a majority of Americans now disapprove of Israel's Gaza war.
Most of the missing workers presumed dead following the Baltimore bridge collapse are originally from Honduras, Guatemala, El Salvador and Mexico — illustrating the increasing dangers Hispanic workers face as a third of the nation's construction workers.
Dumplings are so popular that most cultures have them. From xiaolongbao to dim sim, and pierogi to ravioli del plin, here are 35 of the best.
The IMF urged Switzerland on Thursday to strengthen its financial sector regulation as supervising UBS has become "more challenging" since it grew into a global banking behemoth after its takeover of Credit Suisse."Lessons from the CS (Credit Suisse) case should inform further reforms to strengthen the regulatory and supervisory framework," the IMF said in a statement concluding its annual staff mission to Switzerland.
Swedish authorities said Thursday that worker negligence at a construction site was believed to be behind a landslide that tore apart a motorway in western Sweden in September.Prosecutor Daniel Veivo Pettersson said Thursday he believed "human factors" were behind the landslide as "no natural cause" had been found during the investigation.
Warnings have been issued about fake eclipse glasses, traffic danger and possible air travel headaches. Here's what to know.
She has weighed in on in vitro fertilization many times through her nonprofit work.
Despite recent bumpy inflation readings, consumers feel price increases will continue to fall in the year ahead.
Add variety to your fitness routine with these body-weight exercises that develop core stability and cross-body coordination.
Within 24 hours of buying his red Ford Mustang Mach-E, Liam Sawyer set off on a camping trip. Sawyer, who bought the electric SUV “because I think the technology is cool and the range is just long enough,” searched ahead of time for convenient charging stations between his home in Indianapolis and Allegheny National Forest in western Pennsylvania. About 175 miles (282 kilometers) into his journey, he stopped at a new public charging station at the Pilot Travel Center along Interstate 70 outside Columbus, Ohio.