DIPLOMATIC FAIL: OPEC Once Again Rebuffs Biden’s Pleas For More Oil Thomas Catenacci on May 4, 2022 The Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC), the powerful Middle Eastern oil…
22-Year-Old ‘Pro-Life Spiderman’ Scales 61-Story Skyscraper With No Equipment Kendall Tietz on May 4, 2022 A man who calls himself the “Pro-Life Spiderman” was arrested climbing to the top of…
By Jeff Mason and Jarrett Renshaw WASHINGTON -President Joe Biden sharply criticized former President Donald Trump’s “MAGA” movement as extreme on Wednesday while touting his Democratic administration’s efforts to reduce…
(Reuters) – Levi Strauss & Co said on Wednesday it will reimburse travel expenses for its full- and part-time employees who need to travel to another state for health care…
By Brendan Pierson and Nate Raymond (Reuters) – If the U.S. Supreme Court reverses its landmark 1973 Roe v. Wade decision guaranteeing abortion rights nationwide, demand for abortion pills, which…
(Reuters) – Here’s what getting an abortion in America could look like if the U.S. Supreme Court overturns the 1973 Roe v. Wade decision that legalized abortion nationwide. The first…
By Kanishka Singh (Reuters) – Stanford University received $1.1 billion, its largest ever gift, from venture capitalist John Doerr to fund a new school focused on climate change, fueling a…
By Elizabeth Pineau, Michel Rose and Ingrid Melander PARIS – France’s Socialist Party and the hard-left La France Insoumise (LFI) agreed in principle on Wednesday to run together in June…
By Gabriel Araujo and Steven Grattan SAO PAULO -COVID-19 cases in the Americas increased by 12.7% last week from the prior week, the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) said on…
By Kanishka Singh (Reuters) – Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau vowed to defend abortion rights as the decades-old battle over the issue exploded anew this week in Canada’s southern neighbor,…
BEIJING/SHANGHAI – Beijing shut scores of metro stations and bus routes and extended COVID-19 curbs on many public venues on Wednesday, focusing efforts to avoid the fate of Shanghai, where…
(Reuters) – An Ohio man who was restrained in his seat with tape after groping and assaulting flight attendants during a Frontier Airlines flight from Philadelphia to Miami last year…
By Francesco Guarascio and John Chalmers STRASBOURG -The European Union’s executive on Wednesday proposed the toughest package of sanctions yet against Moscow for its war in Ukraine, but several countries…
By Soo-hyang Choi and Hyonhee Shin SEOUL -North Korea fired a ballistic missile toward the sea off its east coast on Wednesday, South Korea and Japan said, about a week…
By Andrew Chung (Reuters) – The leak of a U.S. Supreme Court draft opinion that would overturn the constitutional right to abortion is a major breach of confidentiality that has…
KYIV – Ukraine’s defence ministry said on Wednesday that Russia was attempting to increase the tempo of its offensive in the east of the country. Defence Ministry spokesman Oleksandr Motuzyanyk…
By Brad Brooks (Reuters) – The three known living survivors of the 1921 Tulsa massacre that saw a white mob murder scores of Blacks and raze much of their neighborhood…
By Richard Cowan WASHINGTON – A draft opinion suggesting the U.S. Supreme Court was ready to overturn the 1973 Roe v. Wade decision establishing the right to abortion sparked a…
KYIV – Kyiv will be ready if Belarus’s armed forces join Russia’s war effort in Ukraine, a spokesperson for the Ukrainian State Border Service said on Wednesday. Belarus, a close…
By Daniel Trotta SANTEE, Calif. – The view from atop Fanita Ranch is nearly 360 degrees of rolling hills and chaparral-covered canyons, with only a few homes visible in the…
By Mark Trevelyan LONDON – Former Belarus leader Stanislav Shushkevich, the man who broke the news to Mikhail Gorbachev that the Soviet Union was being consigned to history, has died…
WASHINGTON – J.D. Vance, the candidate backed by former President Donald Trump, won the Republican nomination to run for the U.S. Senate in Ohio on Tuesday, beating out former state…
By Philip Pullella and Francesca Piscioneri VATICAN CITY -Pope Francis said in an interview published on Tuesday that he asked for a meeting in Moscow with Russian President Vladimir Putin…
(Reuters) – The Electric Reliability Council of Texas (ERCOT) on Tuesday warned of larger-than-normal demand for power due to extreme hot weather expected in the region over May 6-9. “ERCOT has…
By Eric Cox and Nathan Layne CINCINNATI, Ohio -J.D. Vance, a candidate for the U.S. Senate who is backed by Donald Trump, won the Republican primary vote in Ohio on…