President Biden joined the American Civil Liberties Union’s (ACLU) pledge to release half of the U.S. prison population while he was on the campaign trail in 2019, saying he would go further and release ‘more than’ what the organization called ...
A 13-year-old Florida girl threatened to blow up a middle school in a message written on a restroom wall because she was ‘bored,’ police said. The girl was arrested and charged with second-degree written threats to kill, injured or conduct ...
The Biden administration says it will not ‘waste time’ on trying to revive talks with Iran regarding its dormant nuclear deal in light of Tehran’s brutal crackdown on antigovernment protesters and its support of Russia in its war against Ukraine. ...
Opening arguments in the criminal tax fraud trial of the Trump Organization began Monday in New York City. The Trump Organization is facing allegations of tax fraud following a three-year investigation. The business is accused of paying senior executives millions ...
BEIJING – China’s COVID-19 curbs forced the temporary closure of Disney’s Shanghai resort on Monday, while production of Apple Inc iPhones at a major contract manufacturing facility could drop by 30% in November due to coronavirus restrictions, a source told Reuters. ...
VATICAN CITY – Families of death row inmates in Bahrain appealed to Pope Francis on Monday to speak out against capital punishment and defend political prisoners during his trip to the Gulf state this week. The families made their appeal in an open letter released by the London-based Bahrain Institute for Rights and ...
KYIV – President Vladimir Putin said Russian strikes on Ukrainian infrastructure and a decision to freeze participation in a Black Sea grain export program were responses to a drone attack on Moscow’s fleet in Crimea that he blamed on Ukraine. Putin told a news conference on Monday that Ukrainian drones had used the same marine ...
MODHERA, India – Kesa Bhai Prajapati beams with a smile as he molds blocks of clay into jugs and vases on a potter’s wheel. These days, Prajapati, 68, from the village of Modhera in western India’s Gujarat state, has doubled the amount of earthenware he makes compared to ...
JAKARTA – Indonesia‘s food and drug agency said on Monday it had revoked licenses for syrup-type drug production by two local firms for violating manufacturing rules, as it investigates the deaths of more than 150 children due to acute kidney injury (AKI). The decision by the BPOM agency came after Indonesia temporarily banned sales of some syrup-based ...