Nation and World Politics
-
Half a million immigrants could eventually get US citizenship under a sweeping new plan from Biden
Jun 20, 2024 11:39 am - WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden ordered expansive election-year action Tuesday to offer potential citizenship to hundreds of thousands of immigrants without legal s...
-
Supreme Court upholds U.S. tax on foreign business income
Jun 20, 2024 9:49 am - The U.S. Supreme Court upheld a 2017 tax on American-owned businesses’ foreign profits, rejecting an appeal that could have saved companies hundreds of billions of dollar...
-
Russia hammers Ukraine's power grid again and Kyiv's drones target more enemy oil depots
Jun 20, 2024 6:49 am - KYIV, Ukraine — Russia resumed its aerial pounding of Ukraine’s power grid and Kyiv’s forces again targeted Russian oil facilities with cross-border drone strikes, seekin...
-
The Ten Commandments must be displayed in Louisiana classrooms under requirement signed into law
Jun 20, 2024 6:47 am - BATON ROUGE, La. — Louisiana has become the first state to require that the Ten Commandments be displayed in every public school classroom under a bill signed into law by...
-
Russia obliterates Ukraine's front-line towns faster with hacked bombs and expanded air base network
Jun 20, 2024 6:44 am - KHARKIV, Ukraine — The first shock wave shattered aisles stacked almost to the ceiling with home improvement products. The next Russian bomb streaked down like a comet se...
-
South Korea blasts Russia-North Korea deal, says it will consider supplying arms to Ukraine
Jun 20, 2024 6:41 am - SEOUL, South Korea — South Korea on Thursday condemned an agreement reached by Russia and North Korea that pledged mutual defense assistance in the event of war and said ...
-
On Juneteenth, a journalist honors ancestor at ceremony for Black soldiers who served in Civil War
Jun 19, 2024 2:15 pm - WASHINGTON — It was the middle of the night in the summer of 2021 when I finally found the missing piece of my family history. My great-great-great-great grandfather Hewl...
-
Caitlin Clark and the WNBA are getting a lot of attention. It's about far more than basketball
Jun 19, 2024 10:59 am - NEW YORK — Oh, you thought going to a WNBA basketball game might be an escape from the arguments and polarization that are so common in American life these days? Ha, good...
-
Immigrant families rejoice over Biden’s expansive move toward citizenship, while some are left out
Jun 19, 2024 7:52 am - HOUSTON — Hundreds of thousands of immigrants had reason to rejoice when President Joe Biden unveiled a highly expansive plan to extend legal status to spouses of U.S. ci...
-
U.S. soldier convicted of theft in Russia and sentenced to nearly 4 years in prison
Jun 19, 2024 7:50 am - MOSCOW — A court in Russia’s far eastern city of Vladivostok on Wednesday convicted a visiting American soldier of stealing and making threats of murder, and it sentenced...