There’s no country that’s more like the United States than Canada, its neighbor to the north. But as the hyper-contagious Delta variant spreads — and as COVID-19 cases and hospitalizations start to rise among unvaccinated Americans in state after state — a key difference between the two countries has emerged. With nearly 70 percent of […]
Rep. Joyce Beatty is taken into custody by U.S. Capitol Police officers in the Hart Senate Office Building after a demonstration supporting voting rights Thursday. (Jose Luis Magana/AP) Rep. Joyce Beatty, D-Ohio, was arrested Thursday afternoon at the U.S. Capitol while protesting in favor of voting rights legislation. Beatty, the chairwoman of the Congressional Black […]
More than 60 people are dead and dozens of others missing in Germany and Belgium, as heavy floods ravage Western Europe. Torrential rain has triggered flash floods in the region, turning streets into rivers that have swept away cars and caused houses to collapse. “I grieve for those who have lost their lives in this […]
When the 9/11 commission released its long-awaited report in the summer of 2004, one of its findings — while controversial — seemed definitive: There was, the panel asserted, no evidence that the Saudi government “as an institution” or its “senior officials” had “knowingly” supported al-Qaida, the terrorist group that had unleashed the deadly attacks on […]
A newly released Justice Department indictment charging four Iranian intelligence operatives with plotting to kidnap a New York-based journalist who had criticized the Iranian regime dramatically underscores how transnational abductions are becoming the new “normal” for repressive regimes around the world, two human rights activists said Wednesday. “It’s a horrific attempt to silence dissent,” Saudi […]
As the Delta variant of the coronavirus has spiked in areas of the country with low vaccination rates, the staff at Missouri’s Mercy Hospital Springfield has struggled to keep pace. “Our physicians on the floors are pretty tired. They’re working almost daily, some of them for weeks on end, same with all of our other […]
The White House defended President Biden’s position on the filibuster Wednesday even as civil rights groups and congressional Democrats pushed him to do more to get federal legislation on voting protections passed. Biden delivered a speech Tuesday in which he called Republican bills restricting voting rights and conspiracy theories about the 2020 election results “the […]
MEXICO CITY (AP) — A Mexican appeals court has overturned the acquittal of 1990s drug lord Hector “El Güero” Palma, prosecutors said Tuesday, a development that staved off an international embarrassment had he walked free. A lower court ordered Palma freed in April. But prosecutors appealed, arguing the lower court improperly applied the double jeopardy […]
A federal judge agreed on Tuesday to free an Iowa man from jail more than six months after his videotaped confrontation of a police officer inside the U.S. Capitol became one of the most menacing images of the Jan. 6 riots. Douglas Jensen, 41, was wearing a T-shirt bearing the letter “Q,” a symbol of […]
Most vice presidents disappear from sight. Kamala Harris has become an unusually high-profile Republican target. (Kent Nishimura / Los Angeles Times) In North Carolina, Senate hopeful Pat McCrory vows to take on the “Harris-Biden administration” and thwart the vice president and Democrats “who want to radically change America for years to come.” In Alabama, Jessica […]