Lampedusa: Ursula von der Leyen and Giorgia Meloni visit island after migrant boat fears
More than 8,000 migrants have arrived on the Italian island over the past three days.
2023-09-17 18:29
Sadiq Khan flies to New York for global climate summit
The Mayor of London is expected to speak at the United Nations climate ambition summit on Wednesday.
2023-09-17 16:27
Zimbabwe's reelected president says there's democracy. But beating and torture allegations emerge
Lawyers for an opposition party councilor in Zimbabwe say he and a relative were abducted, beaten and whipped by unknown men amid a post-election crackdown on criticism of recently reelected President Emmerson Mnangagwa and his ruling ZANU-PF party
2023-09-17 15:28
Brazil: 14 killed after plane crashes in Amazon
Officials say it appears the aircraft tried to land in bad weather but ran out of runway.
2023-09-17 10:59
Trump says he supports mental competency tests for presidency amid concerns over age
Former President Donald Trump, the oldest candidate in the 2024 GOP presidential field, said there should not be an age limit for the presidency but expressed support for requiring mental competency tests for candidates.
2023-09-17 10:29
How the fentanyl crisis' fourth wave has hit every corner of the US
The epidemic's staggering scale and its infiltration of communities across the nation is laid bare in a new study.
2023-09-17 07:20
GOP presidential hopefuls flock to Iowa to court Christian conservative voters
With roughly four months until the Iowa caucuses, Republican presidential hopefuls have flocked to the Hawkeye State this weekend for Saturday's Iowa Faith and Freedom Coalition's fall banquet, with hopes of impressing the state's conservative evangelical activists.
2023-09-17 07:17
California sues oil giants for downplaying risks posed by fossil fuels
(Reuters) -The state of California has sued major oil companies including Exxon Mobil Corp, Shell PLC, and Chevron Corp, accusing
2023-09-17 06:49
Ken Paxton: Texas Attorney General acquitted of corruption charges
Ken Paxton has always denied wrongdoing and called the impeachment a 'politically motivated sham'.
2023-09-17 06:17
Colorado officer who placed handcuffed suspect into police vehicle that was hit by a train sentenced to 30 months probation, 100 hours community service
Jordan Steinke, a Fort Lupton, Colorado, police officer who placed a handcuffed suspect into a police SUV that was then hit by a train, was sentenced to 30 months of supervised probation and 100 hours of public service, according to her attorney.
2023-09-17 06:16
Biden seeks to preempt GOP attempts to slash federal workforce with new proposal
The Biden administration is seeking to strengthen protections for federal workers as a host of Republican candidates, including frontrunner Donald Trump, make reducing and altering the federal workforce a key component of their campaigns.
2023-09-16 23:23
Remains of two adults found so far in third excavation of Tulsa Race Massacre burial site
The remains of two adults have been found in an archaeological dig at Oak Lawn Cemetery in Tulsa, Oklahoma, amid efforts to find unidentified victims of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre.
2023-09-16 23:00