Sen. Bernie Sanders announced Friday a Senate hearing next week focused on expanding Social Security as he and other defenders countered false and repeated Republican claims that popular program is headed toward insolvency. While a report released Thursday by the Board of Trustees of the Federal Old-Age and Survivors Insurance and Federal Dis...
Two and a half years removed from his campaign trail vow to make Saudi Arabia’s leaders “pay the price” for their role in the murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi, U.S. President Joe Biden is reportedly planning to visit Riyadh in the coming days as part of the White House’s effort to shore up ties with the […]
President Joe Biden on Friday signaled little patience with the world’s richest man’s hand-wringing over the U.S. economy, dismissing Tesla CEO Elon Musk’s comments about job cuts at his electric car manufacturing company. According to Friday reporting by Reuters, Musk said in an email to Tesla executives that he has a “...
ISTANBUL (AA) – The Taliban-led interim government called its meeting with Indian officials in the capital Kabul on Thursday a “good beginning,” urging New Delhi to resume diplomatic operations in Afghanistan. Early on Thursday, a team of Indian diplomats landed in the Afghan capital for the first time since they rushed out when the US [&helli...
WASHINGTON (AA) – The first suspected cases of monkeypox have been detected in the US cities of Los Angeles, Chicago and Philadelphia, local health agencies announced Thursday. All of the cases have been sent to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) for verification. The case in Los Angeles stems from a resident who [&hell...
WASHINGTON (AA) – The US took aim at several countries, including China, Russia, Myanmar and India in its annual religious freedom report Thursday, which reviews the state of religious freedom in nearly 200 nations and territories. Speaking at a press conference with Rashad Hussain, US ambassador-at-large for international religious free...
WASHINGTON (AA) – NATO will address Türkiye’s concerns about Sweden and Finland’s membership bids, the alliance’s chief said Thursday. “When an ally, Turkey, rises concerns, then we have to do what we always do in NATO and that is to sit down, address those concerns and then find a united way forward,” Jens ...
Tunis, Tunisia – AFP Tunisian President Kais Saied on Thursday sacked 57 judges accused of corruption and other crimes, after passing a new law strengthening his grip on the judiciary. Saied, who has steadily extended his powers since he sacked the government and suspended parliament last July, issued a decree late on Wednesday allowing...
In fewer than 30 days, a slew of federal waivers that have enabled schools across the United States to provide free breakfast and lunch to students during the coronavirus pandemic are set to expire, potentially leaving millions of children without easy access to critical meals. And to the dismay of advocates, Congress—which is currently on rec...
President Joe Biden on Thursday delivered an urgent appeal for what advocates say are common-sense firearm control measures in the wake of recent massacres and a national culture of violence in which guns have claimed more lives over the past half-century than all the wars in U.S. history combined. “My fellow Americans, enough,” Bi...
