(Headline USA) China wants 10 small Pacific nations to endorse a sweeping agreement covering everything from security to fisheries in what one leader warns is a “game-changing” bid by Beijing to wrest control of the region.
A draft of the agreement obtained by the Associated Press shows that China wants...
(Headline USA) Eight of the 10 largest cities in the U.S. lost population during the first year of the pandemic, with New York, Los Angeles and Chicago leading the way, leftist enclaves where misguided policies have led to record crime, homelessness and drug abuse.
Between July 2020 and July 2021,...
(Headline USA) Wisconsin's Republican Assembly leader, who will appoint a key member of the state's bipartisan elections commission, said Thursday he was not “ruling anybody in or out” as he looks to quickly fill a vacancy in the battleground state before the next chair of the panel is chosen.
Assembly...
(Headline USA) A jury in Portland has convicted a self-published romance novelist---who once wrote an essay titled “How to Murder Your Husband”---of fatally shooting her husband four years ago.
The jury of seven women and five men found Nancy Crampton Brophy, 71, guilty of second-degree murder Wednesday after deliberating over...
(Headline USA) Former reality TV star Josh Duggar was sentenced Wednesday to 12 years and seven months in prison after he was convicted of receiving child pornography.
Duggar was also convicted of possessing child pornography in December, but U.S. District Judge Timothy Brooks dismissed that conviction after ruling that, under...
(Headline USA) Former White House press secretary Jen Psaki has officially landed at far-left cable-news outlet MSNBC, where she is expected to make appearances on the network's cable and streaming programs as well as host a new original show.
The program, set to debut in the first quarter of 2023,...
(Headline USA) If Ukraine's supplies remain off the market, the world could face a food availability problem in the next 10 to 12 months, and “that is going to be hell on earth,” World Food Program Executive Director David Beasley told the Associated Press in Davos.
The managing director of...
(Headline USA) The World Economic Forum has unveiled an initiative to develop the metaverse, a virtual reality construct that many tech companies are betting will be the next big thing for the internet.
Humanists, conservatives and libertarians are less enthusiastic about the new Matrix-like virtual reality world, which could supplant...
(Headline USA) WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus is expected to be confirmed by the U.N. health agency’s member countries for a second five-year term on Tuesday.
No other candidate challenged Tedros for the post amid the ongoing difficulties of responding to the devastating coronavirus pandemic.
Tedros, a former government minister from...
(Headline USA) Facebook parent Meta said it will start publicly providing more details about how advertisers target people with political ads just months ahead of the U.S. midterm elections.
The announcement follows years of criticism that the social media platforms withhold too much information about how campaigns, special interest groups...
(Headline USA) An 18-year-old gunman opened fire Tuesday at a Texas elementary school, killing at least 19 children, officials said, and the gunman was dead.
The death toll also included three adults, according to state Sen. Roland Gutierrez, who said he was briefed by state police on the fatalities. But...
(Headline USA) The national and state Republican parties are taking the same side as celebrity heart surgeon Dr. Mehmet Oz in Pennsylvania's neck-and-neck GOP primary contest for U.S. Senate and opposing a lawsuit that could help former hedge fund CEO David McCormick close the gap in votes.
McCormick's lawsuit was...