Politics
Biden, South Korea’s Yoon vow to deter North Korea but offer Covid aid
South Korean President Yoon Suk-yeol looks on as U.S. President Joe Biden delivers remarks during a visit to a semiconductor factory at the Samsung Electronics Pyeongtaek Campus in Pyeongtaek, South Korea, May 20, 2022. Jonathan Ernst | Reuters President Joe Biden and his new South Korean counterpart agreed on Saturday to hold bigger military drills […]
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Australian election heads for tight finish as major parties struggle
Prime Minister Scott Morrison greets local community members during afternoon tea at Railway Halls on May 16, 2022 in Cairns, Australia. The Australian federal election was held on Saturday 21 May. Asanka Ratnayake | Getty Images News | Getty Images Voting in Australia’s general election ended on Saturday with early returns showing both Prime Minister […]
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Russia may be running out of crucial targeting drones; brutal siege of Mariupol steel plant ends. Follow our live updates
Boris Johnson spoke with Turkey’s Erdogan about NATO concerns U.K. Boris Johnson spoke with his Turkish counterpart Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Friday, focusing on their two countries’ cooperation and the war in Ukraine. Johnson raised the issue of Turkey’s opposition to Sweden and Finland’s NATO membership applications, and “encouraged” Erdogan to work with both countries […]
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Judge rules Covid asylum restrictions must continue on border
Migrants queue outside the office of the National Migration Institute (INM) as they wait for a QR code to register their migratory situation and travel throughout the country, in Tapachula, Mexico, February 2, 2022. Jose Torres | Reuters Pandemic-related restrictions on migrants seeking asylum on the southern border must continue, a judge ruled Friday in […]
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World Health Organization confirms 80 cases of monkeypox with outbreaks in 11 countries
This 2003 electron microscope image made available by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention shows mature, oval-shaped monkeypox virions, left, and spherical immature virions, right, obtained from a sample of human skin associated with the 2003 prairie dog outbreak. Cynthia S. Goldsmith, Russell Regner | CDC via AP The World Health Organization has confirmed […]
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Catholic bishop bars communion to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi over abortion rights support
U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi speaks at the start of a discussion with historians on how to “establish and preserve the narrative of January 6th” on the one-year anniversary of the attack on the Capitol in Washington, January 6, 2022. Al Drago | Pool | Reuters The Roman Catholic archbishop of San Francisco has ordered […]
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Trump pays $110,000 fine but must do more to lift contempt order, New York AG’s office says
Former U.S. President Donald Trump attends a rally in Perry, Georgia, U.S. September 25, 2021. Dustin Chambers | Reuters Former President Donald Trump paid a $110,000 fine imposed as part of a contempt-of-court order against him, but has failed so far to take all the steps required to lift the order, the New York attorney […]
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Democratic senators concerned about phone location data being used to track people seeking abortions
U.S. Senator Amy Klobuchar speaks during a protest outside the U.S. Supreme Court after the leak of a draft majority opinion written by Justice Samuel Alito preparing for a majority of the court to overturn the landmark Roe v. Wade abortion rights decision later this year, in Washington, D.C., May 3, 2022. Elizabeth Frantz | […]
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Goodbye, American soft power: McDonald’s exiting Russia after 32 years is the end of an era
Soviet customers stand in line outside the just opened first McDonald’s in the Soviet Union on January 31, 1990 at Moscow’s Pushkin Square. Vitaly Armand | Afp | Getty Images It was 4 a.m. and a trickle of Russians had already begun lining up outside the building in the freezing winter cold, hours before opening […]
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CDC urges older Americans to get Covid booster shots as hospitalizations soar again
Shana Alesi administers a second COVID-19 booster shot to Army veteran Robert Hall at Edward Hines Jr. VA Hospital on April 01, 2022 in Hines, Illinois. Scott Olson | Getty Images The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention this week urged older Americans to get a Covid booster shot to increase their protection against the […]
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