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BRUCE: As The US Rests On The Brink Of Lawlessness, Woke Corporate America And BLM Leaders Remain Silent DaQuawn Bruce on June 12, 2022 Being “woke” once symbolized awareness of …

America Has More Transgender Youth Than Ever, Study Says Laurel Duggan on June 12, 2022 Nearly half of the 1.6 million Americans who identify as transgender are teenagers or young …

VALDES: When Seconds Count, Cops Are Minutes To An Hour Away Luis Valdes on June 12, 2022 We are all saddened by the tragic loss of innocent life in Uvalde, …

By Allison Lampert and Anna Mehler Paperny MONTREAL -Quebec’s plans to attract more French-speaking newcomers are unnerving some business owners who say they need immigrants from varied backgrounds to address …

By Luc Cohen NEW YORK – New York City plans next month to auction a midtown Manhattan apartment owned by a Venezuelan media mogul with ties to socialist President Nicolas …

By Gabriella Borter (Reuters) – Planned Parenthood and other abortion rights groups are expanding a network of staff to guide patients through what is expected to become an increasingly complex …

By Rupam Jain MUMBAI – Leaders of prominent Islamic groups and mosques in India appealed to fellow Muslims on Monday to suspend plans for protests against derogatory remarks about the …

By Ludwig Burger and Tassilo Hummel PARIS -French drugmaker Sanofi said on Monday an upgraded version of the COVID-19 vaccine candidate it is developing with GSK showed potential in two …

By Fayaz Bukhari and Subrata Nag Choudhury SRINAGAR/KOLKATA, India -Authorities in India’s Uttar Pradesh state have demolished the homes of several people accused of involvement in riots last week triggered …

By John Irish, Andreas Rinke and Humeyra Pamuk PARIS/BERLIN/WASHINGTON – Is it better to engage with Russian President Vladimir Putin over his invasion of Ukraine or to isolate him? Should …

By Richard Cowan WASHINGTON -In a potential breakthrough toward the first significant new U.S. gun law in decades, a bipartisan group of senators on Sunday announced an agreement on a …

By Michel Rose and Tassilo Hummel PARIS -President Emmanuel Macron faces a tough fight to win an absolute majority in parliament that would allow him to govern with a free …

WASHINGTON -U.S. President Joe Biden will travel to Saudi Arabia and Israel next month and the White House is planning to announce the trip this week, a source familiar with …

By Patricia Zengerle WASHINGTON – Former President Donald Trump’s campaign manager and former officials from Atlanta and Philadelphia will testify on Monday to the U.S. congressional committee investigating the Jan. …

(Reuters) – U.S. Food and Drug Administration staff reviewers on Sunday said Pfizer-BioNTech’s COVID-19 vaccines were effective and safe for use in children aged 6 months to 4 years. The …

By Jake Spring ATALAIA DO NORTE, Brazil -Brazilian police said on Sunday search teams have discovered belongings of missing British journalist Dom Phillips and indigenous expert Bruno Pereira who went …

By Steve Keating TORONTO – PGA Tour commissioner Jay Monahan visited the players on the front line of golf’s feud with the LIV Golf Invitational Series at the Canadian Open …

By Natalia Zinets and Maria Starkova KYIV/LVIV -Russian forces have blown up a bridge linking the embattled Ukrainian city of Sievierodonetsk to another city across the river, cutting off a …

By Jonathan Stempel (Reuters) – Michael Avenatti, the twice-convicted lawyer who represented [censored] actress Stormy Daniels in her legal battles against former U.S. President Donald Trump, on Sunday offered to …

(Reuters) – Country music singer Toby Keith on Sunday said he has been battling stomach cancer for the past six months and needs time to “breathe, recover and relax.” Keith, …

STOCKHOLM – The global nuclear arsenal is expected to grow in the coming years for the first time since the Cold War while the risk of such weapons being used …

(Reuters) – A bipartisan group of U.S. senators said on Sunday they had reached an agreement on a framework for gun safety legislation, potentially the first significant new U.S. gun …

By Steve Scherer OTTAWA – Canadian police are investigating a possible risk to national security that forced parliament to lock down for several hours on Saturday after border agents warned …

By Joey Roulette WASHINGTON -Rocket firm Astra Space’s mission to send tiny storm-monitoring NASA satellites to orbit on Sunday failed after a second-stage booster engine shut down early in space. …