(Headline USA) European Union interior ministers on Thursday were debating ways to beef up the 27-nation bloc’s borders, including by erecting walls or fences, and examine yet again how to kick-start desperately needed reforms to the EU’s malfunctioning asylum system.
The EU has been mired in a deep political crisis...
(Headline USA) When helicopters carrying some 50 U.S. commandos thumped onto the ground in Syria an hour after midnight, the raiders confronted a houseful of innocent civilians---including women and children---alongside a smattering of ISIS extremists.
The attack Wednesday on reported ISIS leader Abu Ibrahim al-Hashimi al-Qurayshi was an audacious raid...
(Headline USA) A maverick judge in Michigan known for ripping into criminal defendants is catching criticism again from a higher court.
The Michigan Court of Appeals suggested Jackson County Judge John McBain is ripe for a misconduct investigation for how he handled the sentencing of a woman convicted of killing...
(Headline USA) The leader of the violent Islamic State group was killed Thursday, blowing himself up along with members of his family during an overnight raid carried out by U.S. special operations forces in northwestern Syria, President Joe Biden said.
The raid targeted Abu Ibrahim al-Hashimi al-Qurayshi, who took over as...
(Headline USA) The Democrats’ fragile hold on the Senate majority became vividly apparent Wednesday with the sudden illness of New Mexico Sen. Ben Ray Luján, who won't be back to work for at least four weeks, throwing President Joe Biden’s Supreme Court pick and lagging legislative agenda in doubt.
The...
(Headline USA) Newly renamed Meta is investing heavily in its futuristic “metaverse” project, but for now, relies on advertising revenue for nearly all its income. So when it posted sharply higher costs but gave a weak revenue forecast late Wednesday, investors got spooked — and knocked almost $200 billion...
(Headline USA) Spike Lee, the activist--auteur whose films were at the cutting edge of racial dialogue in the 1990s---is like the subject of his next 'joint' in that neither will make a graceful exit after outstaying their welcome in the public sphere.
That subject---fallen ex-49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick---continues to complain...
(Headline USA) A deep-red state that’s home to some of Donald Trump’s most vocal conservative critics will welcome members of the Republican National Committee this week for a meeting in which party officials are expected to solidify the former president's status as the GOP standard-bearer ahead of the midterm...
(Headline USA) Late-night disco partying. Elbow-to-elbow seating in movie theaters. Mask-free baring of faces in public.
Bit by bit, many countries that have been hard-hit by the coronavirus are opening up and easing their tough, and often unpopular, restrictive measures aimed to fight COVID-19 even as the omicron variant---deemed less...
(Headline USA) After failing in their attempted HR1 power-grab, Democrat lawmakers are working furiously to update the 135-year-old Electoral Count Act, with help this time from some aisle-crossing Republicans.
The effort follows former President Donald Trump's effort to challenge the disputed certification of the Electoral College's selection of Joe Biden...
(Headline USA) Classes were scheduled to resume Wednesday at the University of California, Los Angeles after a former philsophy lecturer was arrested on suspicion of threatening violence against the school in online videos and an 800-page document sent via email.
Matthew Harris, 31, was taken into custody Tuesday in Colorado...
(Headline USA) Boston would form a new commission to weigh how it can provide reparations and other forms of atonement for its role in slavery and its legacy of inequality, under a proposal being presented to the City Council this week.
The ordinance being introduced Wednesday by City Councilor Julia...