Mexico's federal Attorney General's Office on Tuesday asked Congress to remove legal immunity from the governor of the border state of Tamaulipas so he could face potential charges of organized...
Posted by | February 24, 2021 | Foreign Affairs
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Top board leaders of Texas' embattled power grid operator said Tuesday they will resign following outrage over more than 4 million customers losing electricity last week during a deadly winter...
Posted by | February 24, 2021 | Politics
Shares fell Wednesday in Asia as investors weighed the possibility that inflation might prompt central banks to adjust their ultra-low interest rate policies. Hong Kong led the decline, losing 2%...
Posted by | February 24, 2021 | Foreign Affairs
Sixty-two inmates have died in riots at prisons in three cities in Ecuador as a result of fights between rival gangs and an escape attempt, authorities said Tuesday. Prisons Director...
Posted by | February 24, 2021 | Politics
She's guided the Senate through two impeachment trials, vexed Democrats and Republicans alike with parliamentary opinions and helped rescue Electoral College certificates from a pro-Trump mob ransacking the Capitol. She...
Posted by | February 24, 2021 | Politics
Alaska Airlines was ordered this week to pay $3.2 million to the family of a 75-year-old woman who died after falling down an escalator in an electric wheelchair at Portland...
Posted by | February 24, 2021 | Politics
Just weeks after Amazon founder Jeff Bezos announced that he will step down as CEO by autumn, another top Amazon executive has bowed out of the company. Jeff Blackburn, former...
Posted by | February 24, 2021 | Politics
A deaf former employee of Costco in Pompano Beach, Fla., won't get the $775,000 she won from a federal court jury in her suit alleging discrimination and wrongful termination. Christine...
Posted by | February 24, 2021 | Politics
U.S. aviation regulators on Tuesday issued stringent new inspection requirements to ensure Pratt & Whitney engines like the one that broke apart over a Denver suburb on Saturday are safe....
Posted by | February 24, 2021 | Politics
Roadblocks are continuing to pop up in the Boy Scouts of America bankruptcy case as the organization tries to finalize a reorganization plan built around a global resolution of thousands...
Posted by | February 24, 2021 | Breaking News
Testifying for the first time about the insurrection at the US Capitol, former security officials blamed faulty intelligence for the disastrous failure to anticipate the violent intentions of the mob...
Posted by | February 24, 2021 | Breaking News
During a December visit to New York City, writer E Jean Carroll says she went shopping with a fashion consultant to find the “best outfit” for one of the most...
Posted by | February 24, 2021 | Breaking News
Three years before Saturday's harrowing engine failure and aborted flight to Hawaii, another Boeing 777 headed for Honolulu faced a similar emergency with the same model engine. Both had fractured...
Posted by | February 24, 2021 | Breaking News
Protestors against the military's seizure of power in Myanmar were back on the streets of cities and towns yesterday, a day after a general strike shuttered shops and brought huge...
Posted by | February 24, 2021 | Breaking News
People whose medical conditions put them at very high Covid risk will now get the vaccine sooner – but some healthcare workers and healthier 65- to 69-year-olds will wait longer.
Posted by | February 24, 2021 | Breaking News
Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus R Vance Jr fought for a year-and-a-half to get access to former president Donald Trump's tax records.
Posted by | February 24, 2021 | Breaking News
Last year, just a month after the Covid-19 pandemic ground life to a halt across the world, former Soviet president Mikhail Gorbachev wrote: “What we urgently need now is a...
Posted by | February 24, 2021 | Breaking News
French actor Gerard Depardieu has been charged for the alleged rape and sexual assault of a 22-year-old actress at his Paris mansion in 2018, it was reported last night.
Posted by | February 24, 2021 | Foreign Affairs
LAGOS, Nigeria — Multiple explosions occurred in Maiduguri in north-eastern Nigeria in an attack by suspected Islamist terrorists, a witness and local media said. A large explosion occurred in the...
Posted by | February 24, 2021 | Politics
The foundation widely seen as a steward of the Black Lives Matter movement says it took in just over $90 million last year, according to a financial snapshot shared exclusively...
Posted by | February 24, 2021 | Politics
The Belvidere (Ill.) Assembly Plant, where the Jeep Cherokee SUV is made, is laying off 150 workers. Stellantis, the parent company of Jeep since the merger of Fiat Chrysler Automobiles...
Posted by | February 24, 2021 | Politics
As the vast majority of California students approach one year of distance learning, Gov. Gavin Newsom vowed Tuesday that classrooms will reopen “very, very shortly.” But his forecast was called...
Posted by | February 24, 2021 | Politics
A federal judge on Tuesday ruled that California can for the first time enforce its tough net neutrality law, clearing the way for the state to ban internet providers from...
Posted by | February 24, 2021 | Politics
Class action lawsuits were filed in Nevada against 10 major auto insurance companies on Tuesday, contending that the companies charged excessive insurance premiums during the pandemic by failing to account...
Posted by | February 24, 2021 | Foreign Affairs
BUENOS AIRES, Argentina — Sixty-seven people were killed in three prison mutinies carried out by criminal organizations in Ecuador, the head of the National Service of Attention to People Deprived...
Posted by | February 24, 2021 | Foreign Affairs
Hong Kong Chief Executive Carrie Lam gave her clear support Tuesday to electoral reforms that would likely further exclude opposition voices and cement Beijing's control over the semi-autonomous Chinese city's...
Posted by | February 24, 2021 | Science & Tech
The USPS awarded a 10-year multi-billion dollar contract to Wisconsin-based Oshkosh Defense to replace it's aging fleet of vehicles.
Posted by | February 24, 2021 | Foreign Affairs
The shooter shouted “Victory to Lord Ram,” the Hindu god, before pulling the trigger that sent a bullet into Muhammad Nasir Khan's left eye. Khan placed his trembling hand on...
Posted by | February 24, 2021 | Foreign Affairs
For a few hours, Cuba's storied Revolutionary Square, where Fidel Castro once gave hours-long speeches to the masses, had a different name on Google Maps this week: Freedom Plaza. A...
Posted by | February 24, 2021 | Politics
ARC Document Solutions Inc. (ARC) on Tuesday reported fourth-quarter profit of $1.3 million. The San Ramon, California-based company said it had net income of 3 cents per share. Earnings, adjusted...
Posted by | February 24, 2021 | Politics
Forum Energy Technologies Inc. (FET) on Tuesday reported a loss of $32.7 million in its fourth quarter. The Houston-based company said it had a loss of $5.85 per share. Losses,...
Posted by | February 24, 2021 | Politics
Range Resources Corp. (RRC) on Tuesday reported fourth-quarter net income of $38.4 million, after reporting a loss in the same period a year earlier. On a per-share basis, the Fort...
Posted by | February 24, 2021 | Politics
Mary Irby-Jones, the top editor for the Clarion Ledger and Hattiesburg American in Mississippi, has been named executive editor at the Courier Journal in Louisville. Irby-Jones will join the Louisville...
Posted by | February 24, 2021 | Politics
ProPetro Holding Corp. (PUMP) on Tuesday reported a fourth-quarter loss of $44.1 million, after reporting a profit in the same period a year earlier. The Midland, Texas-based company said it...
Posted by | February 24, 2021 | Politics
Pioneer Natural Resources Co. (PXD) on Tuesday reported fourth-quarter earnings of $43 million. On a per-share basis, the Irving, Texas-based company said it had net income of 26 cents. Earnings,...
Posted by | February 23, 2021 | Foreign Affairs
During Cuba's so-called Special Period, the terrible economic crisis that followed the collapse of the Soviet Union, Willy Chirino's song “Ya viene llegando” became a hymn of hope for many...
Posted by | February 23, 2021 | Foreign Affairs
One of Kentucky's top GOP lawmakers has filed legislation to ban some no-knock warrants nearly a year after the death of Breonna Taylor, a Black woman who was shot in...
Posted by | February 23, 2021 | Science & Tech
The U.S. Postal Service has new Next Generation Delivery Vehicles in the works. The high-tech vehicles are due to begin appearing on routes in 2023.
Posted by | February 23, 2021 | Science & Tech
The Facebook Oversight Board, which will decide whether Donald Trump's suspension should be lifted, received an appeal on behalf of the former president.
Posted by | February 23, 2021 | Science & Tech
"Fortnite" publisher Epic Games asked a UK court to reinstate its game in Apple's App Store. But the court says the U.S. is where the case belongs.
