Saving the farm: Heartland clergy train to prevent agriculture workers’ suicides
Factors largely outside of farmers’ control – from the increasingly unpredictable weather to growing costs of everything from fuel to loans – make the threat of losing the beloved family farm a constant worry
2023-05-18 20:24
Stock market today: Global stocks and Wall Street futures rise in anticipation of US debt deal
Wall Street pointed modestly higher before the opening bell on hopes U.S. political leaders can reach an agreement to avoid a potentially disastrous default on government debt
2023-05-18 20:21
Turkish candidate Kilicdaroglu hardens stance before runoff against Erdogan
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s main challenger has adopted a more nationalist and hard-line stance before a presidential runoff
2023-05-18 19:50
Jim Jordan's FBI whistleblowers to testify publicly before Congress as questions about their legitimacy remain
Three self-described FBI whistleblowers who are key to the Republican narrative that the FBI is weaponized against conservatives will testify in a Senate hearing on Thursday, the latest escalation of House Judiciary Chairman Jim Jordan's investigation into allegations of discrimination and bias within the FBI.
2023-05-18 19:48
Here are the restrictions on transgender people that are moving forward in US statehouses
Hundreds of measures targeting transgender people have been proposed in statehouses this year, and several have moved forward this week
2023-05-18 19:47
Syrian president heads to Saudi Arabia for regional summit, sealing country's return to Arab fold
Syrian President Bashar Assad's office says he is heading to Saudi Arabia to attend an Arab League summit
2023-05-18 19:26
Iran warns Afghanistan's Taliban rulers not to violate its water rights, over Helmand River
Iran's state media say the Iranian president has warned Afghanistan’s Taliban rulers not to violate water rights of the Iranian people
2023-05-18 19:25
Do men shun household chores? Spain is launching an app to find out
Spain's equality ministry says it will launch an app designed to monitor the sharing of chores between members of a household, as part of a drive to improve gender equality.
2023-05-18 19:24
China's loans pushing world’s poorest countries to brink of collapse
A dozen poor countries are facing economic instability and even collapse under the weight of hundreds of billions of dollars in foreign loans, much of them from the world’s biggest and most unforgiving government lender, China
2023-05-18 19:16
BT to cut up to 55,000 jobs by 2030 as fibre and AI arrive
By Paul Sandle LONDON (Reuters) -BT Group, Britain's biggest broadband and mobile provider, will cut up to 55,000 jobs including
2023-05-18 18:51
Takeaways of AP's report on Chinese loans pushing poor countries to brink of collapse
A dozen poor countries are facing economic instability and even collapse because of a common, undeniable factor: their struggle to pay back hundreds of billions of dollars in foreign loans, much of them from the world’s biggest and most unforgiving government lender, China
2023-05-18 18:49
Syria's Assad boosted by return to Arab fold
BEIRUT President Bashar al-Assad has always seen time as an ally in the Syrian civil war, along with
2023-05-18 18:45