Category Archives: World

Biden in Poland to see US troops, Ukraine refugees
RZESZOW, Poland (AP) - President Joe Biden visited U.S. troops stationed near Poland's border with Ukraine on Friday and was getting a first hand look at the growing humanitarian response to the milli...
Mar 25, 2022

Supreme Court Justice Thomas released from hospital
WASHINGTON (AP) - Justice Clarence Thomas was discharged from the hospital Friday after a stay of nearly a week, the Supreme Court said. Thomas, 73, had entered the hospital last Friday evening after ...
Mar 25, 2022

Minneapolis teachers reach tentative agreement to end strike
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) - Teachers in Minneapolis have reached a tentative agreement to end a more than two-week strike over pay and other issues that idled some 29,000 students and around 4,500 educators an...
Mar 25, 2022

Moscow accused of forcibly removing civilians to Russia
KYIV, Ukraine (AP) - Ukraine accused Moscow of forcibly removing hundreds of thousands of civilians from shattered Ukrainian cities to Russia to pressure Kyiv to give up, while President Volodymyr Zel...
Mar 24, 2022

Nebraska US Rep. Fortenberry found guilty in campaign probe
LOS ANGELES (AP) - U.S. Rep. Jeff Fortenberry of Nebraska was convicted Thursday of charges that he lied to federal authorities about an illegal $30,000 contribution to his campaign from a foreign bil...
Mar 24, 2022

Arizona Legislature OKs ban on gender-reassignment surgery
PHOENIX (AP) - The Arizona House voted Thursday to prohibit gender-reassignment surgery for minors and was scheduled to vote later on a bill banning transgender athletes from playing on girls sports t...
Mar 24, 2022

Arizona Legislature approves 15-week abortion ban
PHOENIX (AP) - The Arizona Legislature on Thursday joined the growing list of Republican-led states to pass aggressive anti-abortion legislation as the conservative U.S. Supreme Court is considering r...
Mar 24, 2022

Jan. 6 committee sets contempt vote for 2 former Trump aides
WASHINGTON (AP) - The House committee investigating the Capitol riot said Thursday that it had set a vote for next week to consider contempt of Congress charges for two aides of former President Donal...
Mar 24, 2022

Man touts electric unicycle as answer to high gas prices
FALL RIVER, Mass. (AP) - A Massachusetts man says he has the answer for those singing the blues about stratospheric gas prices. Rick Madeira, of Fall River, has taken to riding his electric unicycle t...
Mar 24, 2022

UN blames Russia for Ukraine humanitarian crisis, urges aid
UNITED NATIONS (AP) - The U.N. General Assembly has overwhelmingly approved a resolution blaming Russia for humanitarian crisis in Ukraine and urging an immediate cease-fire and protection for million...
Mar 24, 2022