Nation and World
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Facebook's parent company Meta and moderators suing it for $1.6 billion in Kenya agree to mediation
Aug 23, 2023 1:00 am - NAIROBI, Kenya - Meta, Facebook's parent company, and 184 of its content moderators who were based in Kenya agreed Wednesday on a mediation attempt to settle out of cour...
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Dollar Tree and Family Dollar agree to take steps to improve worker safety at the bargain stores
Aug 23, 2023 1:00 am - NEW YORK - U.S. regulators on Wednesday announced a settlement with the company that runs Dollar Tree and Family Dollar aimed at improving worker safety at thousands of ...
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Who's in, who's out, who's boycotting: The 8 candidates expected on-stage for the first GOP debate
Aug 23, 2023 1:00 am - COLUMBIA, S.C. - Donald Trump won't be on the Republican debate stage Wednesday. But the former president is driving the conversation on and off the debate stage anyway....
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Commandos pluck 5 children from dangling cable car in Pakistan; 3 more people wait for rescue
Aug 22, 2023 1:00 am - PESHAWAR, Pakistan - Army commandos using helicopters and a makeshift chairlift rescued five children from a broken cable car suspended hundreds of meters (feet) above a...
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The African Union suspends Niger until 'the effective restoration of constitutional order'
Aug 22, 2023 1:00 am - NIAMEY, Niger - The African Union on Tuesday suspended Niger from all of its institutions and activities "until the effective restoration of constitutional order" follow...
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Former Thai leader Thaksin goes to jail as political party linked to him wins vote to take power
Aug 22, 2023 1:00 am - BANGKOK - Thailand's divisive former prime minister made a dramatic return home Tuesday to face an eight-year prison term, just as a party linked to him won a vote in Pa...
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Ukraine media say Kyiv saboteurs were behind drone attacks on air bases deep inside Russia
Aug 22, 2023 1:00 am - KYIV, Ukraine - Ukrainian saboteurs coordinated by Kyiv's military intelligence services carried out a pair of recent drone attacks that hit parked bomber aircraft at ai...
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How Trump's attacks on prosecutors build on history of using racist language and stereotypes
Aug 22, 2023 1:00 am - NEW YORK - Donald Trump's aggressive response to his fourth criminal indictment in five months follows a strategy he has long used against legal and political opponents:...
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Zelenskyy thanks Danes in person for F-16s, though the planes won't have an immediate war impact
Aug 21, 2023 1:00 am - COPENHAGEN, Denmark - Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy thanked Danish lawmakers Monday for helping his country resist Russia's invasion, a day after Denmark and t...
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Immigrant workers' lives, livelihoods and documents in limbo after the Hawaii fire
Aug 21, 2023 1:00 am - LAHAINA, Hawaii - Freddy Tomas was working in his yard in Lahaina when the fire advanced with stunning speed right up to his fence. He rushed to save valuables from a sa...