WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden said Thursday joined scores of advocates and survivors of domestic abuse to mark the 30th anniversary of the landmark Violence Against Women Act, a law he wrote and championed as a U.S. senator because he wanted to “change the culture of America” around...
OTTAWA, Ontario (AP) — Canadian police say a renowned portrait of Winston Churchill that was reported stolen from an Ottawa hotel has been tracked down in Italy. Fairmont Chateau Laurier General Manager Genevieve Dumas listens to Ottawa Police Services Detective Akiva Gellar speak about the...
LIMA, Peru (AP) — Peru’s government on Thursday declared three days of national mourning over the death of former President Alberto Fujimori and granted him a state funeral despite his convictions for human rights abuses and corruption. Keiko Fujimori, her brother Kenji, and other relatives...
DOVER, Del. (AP) — A lawsuit pitting an electronic voting machine manufacturer that was targeted by allies of former President Donald Trump against a conservative news outlet that aired accusations of vote manipulation in the 2020 election appears headed to trial, following a Delaware judge's...
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — Two dozen soldiers and police officers from Jamaica arrived in Haiti on Thursday to join a U.N.-backed mission led by Kenya to fight powerful gangs. Kenyan members of the Multinational Security Support Mission (MSS) stand at attention as they await the arrival of U.S....
FILE - Thousands of Boeing machinists make their way to the exits to cast their vote after the "stop work meeting" and strike sanction at T-Mobile Park in Seattle, July 17, 2024. (Kevin Clark/The Seattle Times via AP, File) Boeing is preparing to learn Thursday whether 33,000 aircraft assembly...
killed recently in the occupied West Bank, Wednesday, Sept. 11, 2024, in Seattle. Eygi grew up in Seattle, attended Seattle Public Schools and graduated from the University of Washington. (AP Photo/John Froschauer) SEATTLE (AP) — For her 26th birthday in July, human rights activist Aysenur Ezgi...
A tourist views high-rise apartment buildings from a bus in Incheon, South Korea, Thursday, May 16, 2024. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong) POHANG, South Korea (AP) — There are two Koreas, North and South. But there's also more than one South Korea , with the nation split into camps with polar opposite...
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Senate has the potential for history-making this fall , with not one, but two, Black women possibly elected to the chamber, a situation never seen in America since Congress was created more than 200 years ago. Delaware’s Lisa Blunt Rochester marks the milestone by saying...
Thailand's Prime Minister Paetongtarn Shinawatra reads the policy statement at parliament in Bangkok, Thailand, Thursday, Sept. 12, 2024. Paetongtarn appeared Parliament for the first time to lay out how her government envisions to improve the country. (AP Photo/Sakchai Lalit) BANGKOK (AP)...
DENDROBIUM HIS HOLINESS POPE FRANCIS – Chief Executive Officer of the Singapore's National Parks Board Hwang Yu-Ning presents Pope Francis with a 'Dendrobium His Holiness Pope Francis', a specially bred orchid variety named after him at the Parliament House in Singapore, Thursday, Sept. 12,...
This photo combination shows the candidates of the ruling Liberal Democratic Party for the party's upcoming presidential election. Top row from left, former Environment Minister Shinjiro Koizumi, former Defense Minister Shigeru Ishiba, and Economic Security Minister Sanae Takaichi. Middle...
