“We’re trying to combat this idea that Florida is a lost cause,” said Fenning. “It’s the third most populous state in the country. There are so many queer people here. We can’t afford to divest from the state in a way that would harm millions of people.”
Twelve years since the Syrian uprising, rap has become an essential tool to unite, resist and heal among citizens of the region.
How a flourishing underground subculture is providing a welcome escape from the realities of war.
The acronym began as a somewhat optimistic term to describe what were the world's fastest-growing economies at the time. But now the BRICS nations — Brazil, Russia, India, China, South Africa — are setting themselves up as an alternative to existing international financial and political forums.
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Twenty years ago, President George W. Bush stood before the American people and proposed a radical intervention to head off a growing menace in one of the world’s most troubled regions.
Across the U.S., people protested outside major banks on Tuesday, calling on financial institutions to shift investments away from fossil fuel companies. In Boston, more than 200 people marched from a Chase Bank to a Bank of America branch.
Remembered as a triumph in Britain and with resentment in Argentina, the Falklands War is all but forgotten in the United States. Yet 41 years later, the last major interstate conflict in the Western Hemisphere continues to matter not just to London and Buenos Aires but to Washington as well.
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The former president went to Waco and played the hits. WACO, Texas — It was Donald Trump’s first formal rally of the 2024 campaign. But the former president spent the evening sticking with the usual hits, emphasizing personal grievances and going after his nearest targets: Florida Gov.
JERUSALEM — Tens of thousands of Israelis poured into the streets of cities across the country Sunday night in a spontaneous outburst of anger after Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu abruptly fired his defense minister for challenging the Israeli leader's judicial overhaul plan.
WASHINGTON — Ron DeSantis may be missing his moment. A number of the Florida governor’s donors and allies are worried his recent stumbles suggest he may not be ready for a brutal fight against Donald Trump.
Former President Donald Trump says his indictment by the Manhattan District Attorney for alleged hush money payments is imminent, claiming on Saturday that it could come as early as Tuesday.
Twenty years after the invasion, mercenarism continues to have unpredictable consequences. In February of 2020, automobile executive Erik Charles Maund received a series of text messages from his lover’s boyfriend, threatening to expose Maund’s extramarital affair if he didn’t pay up.
In the coming weeks, both chambers of Congress are expected to debate and vote on a bill repealing the authority that Congress gave President George W. Bush to use force against Iraq. It has been more than half a century since Congress repealed a similar resolution.
As the U.S. Republican presidential primary heats up, so too will the debate about the future of conservative American foreign policy.
For many years, the Black Sea was largely ignored by geostrategists. But with Russia's invasion of Ukraine and its aggressive posturing elsewhere in the region, countries along its shores find themselves on a dangerous fault line.
By now you’ve likely heard the news that there’s a good chance Donald Trump will be indicted, possibly as early as this week, by the Manhattan district attorney’s office, for paying porn star Stormy Daniels six figures’ worth of hush money in 2016 to keep quiet about their alleged affair.
A lieutenant in the Memphis Police Department who was on the scene when officers beat Tyre Nichols to death was able to retire with full benefits, less than a day before he was expected to be fired, according to police documents. Former Lt.
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China and the United States are lurching from one crisis to the next. It's not just deep economic interdependence that is at stake, but also global peace.
He has turned a chronic political headache into a winning issue. House Republicans can’t do much with their tenuous grip on Congress’s lower chamber.
In the face of his mounting legal troubles, former President Donald Trump has promised to stay the course on his 2024 run for the White House even if he's charged with a crime.
A great deal has been written about Vladimir Putin’s relationship with history: the way it fascinates him, the way it inspires him, and the way it distorts his thinking.
JERUSALEM (AP) — Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announced a delay in his judicial overhaul plan Monday, saying he wanted “to avoid civil war” by making time to seek a compromise over the contentious package with political opponents.