Police in Sao Paulo fire tear gas on demonstrators protesting a recent hike in bus fares. Yiming Woo reports.
Thousands of Jewish immigrants and their children changed their names in America – but not at Ellis Island. The reasons are complicated and part of the Jewish struggle with their identity in America.
REM sleep behavior disorder is characterized by acting out dreams, which may include shouting, kicking and punching during sleep.
Something was very wrong with Jackie Kirks’ food stamp card. While standing at the checkout line in a cavernous Albertsons grocery store in Long Beach, California, in December, Kirks was told that she didn’t have enough money in her account to pay for food. “That’s impossible,” she told the cashier. Sign up for The Morning newsletter from the New York Times Kirks, 70, knew that she had saved up a sizable sum in monthly benefits from the federal food assistance program, also known as the Suppleme
Chinese President Xi Jinping kicked off a three-country trip to Europe on Sunday with the continent divided over how to deal with Beijing's growing power and the U.S.-China rivalry. European carmakers are losing ground to subsidized Chinese electric vehicles. Diplomats fret about alleged Chinese spies in European capitals.
Idaho, Montana and Florida had the highest population growth among US states between 2020 and 2022.
Chinese President Xi Jinping on Sunday arrived in France on a state visit hosted by Emmanuel Macron where the French leader will seek to push his counterpart on issues ranging from Ukraine to trade.The French president had gladdened Chinese state media and troubled some EU allies after his 2023 visit by declaring that Europe should not be drawn into a standoff between China and the United States, particularly over democratic, self-ruled Taiwan.
Los Angeles police in riot gear swarmed a pro-Palestinian encampment at the University of Southern California early on Sunday to clear away demonstrators, after warning everyone to leave the area or be arrested, officials and media reported. Police entered the encampment about 5 a.m. local time and began removing tents, the Los Angeles Times and other media reported. The anti-war protests have been staged at campuses across the nation in response to Israel's offensive in Gaza, which it launched after a Hamas attack on Oct. 7 that Israel says killed 1,200 people.
The Republican National Committee’s chief counsel Charlie Spies has resigned two months after accepting the position.
Talks to reach a Gaza truce resumed Sunday, a Hamas source said, but public disagreement between the Islamist movement and Israel intensified over demands to end their seven-month war.- Protests - Qatari, Egyptian and US mediators met a Hamas delegation in Cairo on Saturday before talks resumed Sunday.
Jay Powell says pending elections don't get discussed at Federal Reserve meetings. Here's what Yahoo Finance found after reviewing years of transcripts.
As rivers swell across South Texas, leaving homes and businesses flooded and thousands of people displaced, residents are looking skyward Sunday as the threat of more rain looms.
Schools in Bangladesh reopened on Sunday and classes were continuing over the weekend after a searing heatwave a week ago that suspended lessons as the country baked in temperatures that surged to well over 40 degrees Centigrade. Bangladesh has wavered over reopening schools for some 33 million students amid pressure to prepare pupils for exams, even as the worst heatwave in seven decades sent temperatures as high as 43.8 C (110.84° Fahrenheit) last week. Bangladesh, which follows the Islamic work week from Sunday to Thursday, will hold classes on Saturdays until further notice, the education ministry said.
Six months from Election Day, American voters confront a presidential race that looks stable at a glance — and is roiling with uncertainty beneath the surface.
Tensions remain high over the prospect of protests around the Democratic National Convention in Chicago this August.
Ukrainians in the embattled east flocked to church on Sunday to mark their third wartime Easter as Russian troops inched closer to threatening some of the region's key cities. Fighting on the eastern front has worsened in recent weeks, particularly around the town of Chasiv Yar, while Kyiv's troops await crucial U.S. military aid to beat back Moscow's advance. Residents in Kostiantynivka, 15 km (10 miles) southwest, said they remained determined to celebrate the holiday despite the worsening security situation from Russia's 26-month-old invasion.
Panamanians started voting Sunday in presidential elections featuring a crowded field of eight candidates led by the protege of a former head of state convicted of corruption.- 'Frontman for a confirmed crook' - Mulino replaced Martinelli as the candidate for the right-wing Realizing Goals (RM) party after Martinelli lost an appeal against a money laundering conviction.
The death toll from heavy rains that have inundated Brazil's southern state of Rio Grande do Sul has risen to at least 66, local authorities said on Sunday. The number of people still missing rose to 101 and more than 80,000 had been displaced, according to the state civil defence authority. President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva is expected to visit Rio Grande do Sul on Sunday.
The fight to allow same-sex marriage and gay clergy has defined much of the last half-century for major mainline Protestant denominations in the U.S., mirroring in many ways the broader fight for LGBTQ+ inclusion in civic life. The United Methodist Church, which stripped out its bans and related social teachings over the past two weeks, is the last of the major mainline church bodies to go through this process. April 1972 The United Methodist Church has first public debate on homosexuality at a General Conference.
It took just a few days for United Methodist delegates to remove a half-century's worth of denominational bans on gay clergy and same-sex marriages. It took decades of activism for a change that was "so very healing," said McAvoy, pastor of Shepherd of the Valley United Methodist Church in Hope, Rhode Island. A member of the Queer Delegate Caucus at last week's UMC General Conference in Charlotte, she was grateful to be part of the historic moment.
Out comes Tesla CEO Musk from the factory floor to one of more glitzy conferences of the year.
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