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BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (AP) - Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau need only look to the United States for lessons on how to survive the furor over a photo of him in brownface at a costume party nearly two decades ago.
A few Southern politicians respond...
Updated: Sep 19, 2019 at 03:40 PM
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Regina Smyth, Indiana University
(THE CONVERSATION) Russian President Vladimir Putin’s ruling party, United Russia, e...
Updated: Sep 19, 2019 at 09:05 AM
From weakening vehicle emissions to blocking warnings about how coastal parks could flood or the impact on the Arctic, the Trump administration is accused of muzzling climate science.
Here, six whistleblowers and former government scientists describ...
Updated: Sep 20, 2019 at 12:20 AM
Danielle Rizzo's son is screaming. He is planted in the middle of the lobby of his elementary school in Bartlett, clinging to rainbow-colored blocks as she gently explains that she is here — off schedule, in the middle of the day — to take him to a ...
Updated: Sep 20, 2019 at 07:18 AM
MOSCOW (AP) - Residents of Russia's capital voted Sunday in a city council election shadowed by a wave of protests that saw the biggest demonstrator turnout in seven years and a notably violent police response.
City council elections are normally lo...
Updated: Sep 08, 2019 at 01:31 PM
MANHATTAN, Kan. (AP) - Many attending U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo's college lecture Friday in his home state of Kansas will be listening for clues about whether he might run for the Senate next year, though it could be many months before any...
Updated: Sep 06, 2019 at 10:30 AM
GUATEMALA CITY (AP) - Former Guatemalan first lady and presidential runner-up Sandra Torres was arrested Monday on charges of campaign finance violations, the latest high-profile political figure to face allegations of malfeasance even as a U.N. ant...
Updated: Sep 02, 2019 at 06:40 PM
ROME (AP) - Ex-Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte accepted the role of premier-designate on Thursday in a bid to cobble together a new government of long-time political foes with the common aim of blocking a power grab by Matteo Salvini, the right-wing l...
Updated: Aug 29, 2019 at 02:00 PM
PHOENIX (AP) - A Phoenix-area businessman said Wednesday he'll challenge U.S. Sen. Martha McSally in the Republican primary, setting up a potential threat to GOP efforts to hold onto John McCain's former Senate seat.
Daniel McCarthy, who founded a c...
Updated: Aug 28, 2019 at 10:40 PM
CHICAGO (AP) - As a young scholar, Elizabeth Warren traveled to federal courthouses, studying families overwhelmed by debt. She brought along a photocopier, gathering reams of statistics as she tried to answer one question: Why were these folks goin...
Updated: Aug 26, 2019 at 07:17 AM