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A woman in Florida is accused of instigating a fight between students at a school bus stop and then joining the fight when it escalated, a video shared by police shows. Two students were waiting with their peers for the bus on the morning of March 1 when they started to argue, Haines City Police […]

By Nandita Bose MINNEAPOLIS/ST PAUL (Reuters) – U.S. President Joe Biden is expected to sweep Minnesota’s Democratic primary on Tuesday, but some suburban women and Jewish activists are joining Muslim Americans in an “uncommitted” protest vote over his Israel policy, voter interviews show. Biden, 81, has been dogged by anger and a growing, organized backlash […]

DOHA, Qatar ― Samira Thari recently told her six children still in Gaza that she doesn’t want to hear from them. She thinks of them constantly, especially those most hurt by the violence there ― like her 22-year-old son, who is in a wheelchair after being hit by shrapnel, and her 14-year-old daughter, who’s been […]

Kerry – a former secretary of state, senator and Democratic presidential nominee – made his mark in recent years by engaging Beijing on climate at a time of tense relations. The bilateral climate agreement reached at Sunnylands in November before the US and Chinese leaders’ summit helped catalyse the unprecedented “Dubai consensus” between nearly 200 […]

OTTAWA – Pro-Palestinian and human rights advocates in Canada on Tuesday filed a lawsuit against the federal government to stop it from allowing companies to export military goods and technology to Israel. The lawsuit, filed in a federal court, argues that Canadian laws prevent military exports to Israel because there is “substantial risk” they could […]

Much speculation has swirled around megastar Taylor Swift’s potential power in the US presidential election, and on March 5 she toe-dipped in, urging her fans to vote. Swift, one of the world’s most famous and most-discussed artists, did not urge her loyal Swifties towards any particular political position or candidate, instead focusing on the importance […]

A majority of Latinos agree there is trouble on the U.S.-Mexico border, but Latinos overall are less likely than other Americans to see more deportations and more border wall as effective responses, a Pew Research Center survey has found. Pew’s analysis released Monday found that about three-quarters of Latinos surveyed view the increasing number of […]

NEW YORK (AP) — New obstruction of justice crimes were added Tuesday to charges against Sen. Bob Menendez and his wife that allege they accepted gold bars, cash and a luxury car in return for favors the senator carried out to assist three businessmen. The new charges were in a rewritten indictment returned against the […]

Speaking later after meeting his Czech counterpart Petr Pavel, he asked: “Is this or is it not our war? Can we look away in the belief that we can let things run their course?” 09:43 Ukraine war two years on: disease, displacement and demands for aid Ukraine war two years on: disease, displacement and demands […]

MOSCOW – French President Emmanuel Macron’s comments on possibly sending Nato soldiers to Ukraine are pushing the world to the brink of nuclear war, Russia’s Foreign Intelligence Service (SVR) chief was quoted as saying on March 5. Last week, Mr Macron opened the door to European nations sending troops to Ukraine, although he cautioned that […]

Missouri House Speaker Dean Plocher on Monday shut down a Democratic lawmaker’s speech about the weekend shooting at North Kansas City High School after the lawmaker began to talk about lax gun laws. The dust up between Plocher, a St. Louis-area Republican, and Rep. Eric Woods, a Kansas City Democrat, comes as Missouri Republicans have […]

Kyrsten Sinema, the former Democrat from Arizona who is an independent in the US Senate, said on Tuesday she would not run for re-election this year. “I love Arizona and I am so proud of what we’ve delivered,” Sinema said in a video posted to social media. “Because I choose civility, understanding, listening, working together […]