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A suspect believed connected to the mass shooting in Sacramento was arrested, but the multiple shooters police believe fatally shot six people and wounded 12 on a crowded street in California’s capital are still on the loose.More than 100 shots were fired early Sunday in downtown Sacramento, c...
Senate bargainers have reached agreement on a slimmed-down $10 billion package for countering Covid-19 with treatments, vaccines and other steps, the top Democratic and Republican negotiators said, but ended up dropping all funding to help nations abroad combat the pandemic.The compromise drew quick...
As Benito Luna-Herrera teaches his 7th grade social studies classes, he is on alert for signs of inner turmoil. And there is so much of it these days.One of his 12-year-old students felt her world was falling apart. Distance learning had upended her friendships. Things with her boyfriend were vergin...
Democrats are launching a whirlwind of votes and Senate floor action Monday with the goal of confirming Ketanji Brown Jackson as the first Black woman on the Supreme Court by the end of the week.The Senate Judiciary Committee kicks off Monday morning with a vote on whether to move Jackson’s no...
The usual crowds filled the streets as bars and nightclubs were closing in California’s capital city of Sacramento when the sound of rapid-fire gunshots sent people running in terror. In a matter of seconds, the latest US mass shooting had left six people dead and 12 wounded.Sacramento p...
Opposition lawmakers in Sri Lanka on Sunday marched in the capital, Colombo, protesting against the president’s move to impose a nationwide curfew and state of emergency following demonstrations blaming the government for an economic crisis.Internet users in Sri Lanka were also unable to acces...
Trains operated by the national rail network were halted across the Netherlands Sunday by what the operator called a technical problem.Erik Kroeze, a spokesman for railway operator NS, said the problem was in a planning software system. He said there were no indications it was caused by a cyber...
French nationalist leader Marine Le Pen has softened her rhetoric and her image to broaden her appeal in next week’s presidential election — but is under threat from a provocative rival who has broken her monopoly as the watchdog of the country’s identity that they claim is under t...
Covid-19 cases in China’s largest city of Shanghai are still rising as millions remain isolated at home under a sweeping lockdown.Health officials on Sunday reported 438 confirmed cases detected over the previous 24 hours, along with 7,788 asymptomatic cases. Both figures were up slightly from...
World,Front Page
Sri Lanka’s president declared a state of emergency in the island nation Friday, a day after angry protesters demonstrated near his home demanding he resign and as plans were made for a nationwide protest over the country’s worst economic crisis in memory.President Gotabaya Rajapaksa inv...
The prevalence of COVID-19 in the U.K. has reached record levels, with about 1 in 13 people estimated to be infected with the virus in the past week, latest figures from Britain's official statistics agency showed.Some 4.9 million people were estimated to have the coronavirus in the week ending ...
A flurry of summits this week across Dubai addressed the threat of climate change, or at least acknowledged that a pivot away from fossil fuels toward cleaner sources of power is needed to keep temperatures from rising.The glaring fault lines, however, lie on when and how to achieve this. For fossil...
A recent court ruling upholding a ban on Muslim students wearing head coverings in schools has sparked criticism from constitutional scholars and rights activists amid concerns of judicial overreach regarding religious freedoms in officially secular India.Even though the ban is only imposed in the s...
Hong Kong authorities on Saturday asked the entire population of more than 7.4 million people to voluntarily test themselves for Covid-19 at home for three days in a row starting next week.The announcement by Chief Executive Carrie Lam came as the southern Chinese city is struggling to contain its w...
The Muslim holy month of Ramadan — when the faithful fast from dawn to dusk — began at sunrise Saturday in much of the Middle East, where Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has sent energy and food prices soaring.The conflict cast a pall over Ramadan, when large gatherings over meals and...
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Will Smith resigned from the body that awards the Oscars on Friday, five days after he assaulted comedian Chris Rock during a live global broadcast.The actor said his actions, which overshadowed Hollywood's glitziest night of the year, were "shocking, painful and inexcusable.""The...
Tia Rutherford is worried about her 3-year-old son.As energy prices soared last fall, she tacked fleece blankets over her doors and windows to keep the cold out and started serving Jacob breakfast in his room so she didn’t have to heat the living room. But she’s consumed by worry that sh...
Pope Francis apologized and begged forgiveness Friday for the “deplorable” abuses suffered by Indigenous Peoples in Canada’s church-run residential schools and said he hoped to visit Canada in late July to deliver the apology in person to all those who suffered from the Catholic Ch...
About 16 million residents in Shanghai are being tested for the coronavirus during the second stage of the lockdown that shifted Friday to the western half of China’s biggest city and financial capital.Meanwhile, residents of Shanghai’s eastern districts who were supposed to be released ...
Sports,Football,Front Page
Coaches and soccer officials are gathering in Qatar for Friday’s draw for the Middle East’s first World Cup.There will be 37 nations involved in the draw ceremony but five teams will ultimately not reach the tournament, which begins on Nov. 21.The full lineup will not be known until at l...
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