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Two Americas: Chasm Grows Between Red And Blue States On Hot-Button Social Issues Laurel Duggan on April 23, 2022 Polarization on social issues is creating dramatically different legal landscapes between …

By Will Dunham WASHINGTON -Orrin Hatch, the gentlemanly long-serving Republican U.S. senator from Utah who championed deep tax cuts, an anti-terrorism law and a children’s health program while fighting for …

By Pavel Polityuk and Natalia Zinets KYIV -Russia resumed its assault on the last Ukrainian defenders holed up in a giant steel works in Mariupol on Saturday, days after Moscow …

(Reuters) – Ukraine has asked the International Atomic Energy Agency for “a comprehensive list of equipment” it needs to operate nuclear power plants during the war with Russia, IAEA Director …

By Josh Smith SEOUL – North Korean state media on Sunday trumpeted how the country has gained an “invincible power that the world cannot ignore and no one can touch” …

(Reuters) – The World Health Organization said on Saturday that at least one child death had been reported following an increase of acute hepatitis of unknown origin in children, and …

By Natalia Zinets KYIV – President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said Ukraine hoped to secure heavy weapons at talks with the U.S. secretaries of state and defence in Kyiv on Sunday, supplies …

(Fixes spelling in first paragraph) By Henriette Chacar JERUSALEM – With processions, chants and ululations, thousands of Christian Palestinians and pilgrims celebrated the Holy Fire ceremony at Jerusalem’s Church of …

ZURICH – The Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe said on Saturday it was trying to secure the release of a number of Special Monitoring Mission (SMM) staff members …

By Michel Rose PARIS – President Emmanuel Macron, a former investment banker who was elected in 2017 on a promise to be neither of the left nor the right, is …

By David Dolan TOKYO -Japan’s coast guard used aircraft and patrol boats on Saturday to search for a tour boat with 26 people on board after it sent word it …

By Anthony Deutsch AMSTERDAM -Amsterdam’s Schiphol airport urged travellers to stay away for several hours on Saturday as a strike by ground personnel at the start of a school holiday …

KYIV – Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said on Saturday that Kyiv would quit talks with Moscow if Russia destroys Ukraine’s people in the city of Mariupol and holds “pseudo-referendums” to …

By Riham Alkousaa and Fanny Brodersen BERLIN – Berlin’s Pilecki Institute, which is dedicated to researching 20th century history including Nazi crimes in World War Two, is tapping that experience …

(Reuters) – Women and children sheltering in a giant steel works in Mariupol that is the last holdout of Ukrainian defenders of the southern port city, said in a video …

By Nathan Layne (Reuters) – A local Republican Party leader in North Carolina threatened to get a county elections director fired or have her pay cut unless she helped him …

KINSHASA -A new case of Ebola has been confirmed in northwestern Democratic Republic of Congo, prompting health authorities to enforce urgent containment measures just four months after the previous outbreak …

By Silke Koltrowitz and Arnd Wiegmann ZURICH – Hundreds of Ukrainians lined up for food handouts in central Zurich on Saturday as wealthy Switzerland struggles to cope with the arrival …

By Chris Gallagher and Steve Gorman WASHINGTON -A gunman opened fire on random victims from a sniper’s nest in an apartment building near an elite prep school in the nation’s …

MOGADISHU -Six people were killed on Friday by a blast at a seaside restaurant in Somalia’s capital Mogadishu, an ambulance service official told Reuters. “So far we have carried six …

ABOARD USS LINCOLN – Japan’s foreign minister promised his country would bolster its military to help the United States maintain regional security during a visit on Saturday to a U.S. …

(Reuters) – Russia resumed its assault on the last Ukrainian defenders holed up in a giant steel works in Mariupol, a Ukrainian official said, days after Moscow declared victory in …