Scarves over headscarves, Muslim women’s outdoors group tackles snow tubing in Minnesota
Ice crystals clung to the eyelashes, parka hood, beanie hat and headscarf of Ruqayah Nasser as she took a break after her ...
Former FBI informant will be sentenced for bogus bribery claim about President Biden and son Hunter
Prosecutors will ask a judge on Wednesday for six years in prison for a former FBI informant whose bogus story about ...
What to know about Trump’s calls to make Canada the ’51st state’
President-elect Donald Trump has doubled down on his suggestion of a merged United States and Canada following Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s decision to resign.
Ukraine claims it struck a key military fuel depot deep inside Russia
The Ukrainian military said Wednesday that it struck a fuel storage depot deep inside Russia, causing a huge blaze at the facility that supplies an important Russian air base.
Carter and Biden’s long friendship had wrinkles. It will be on display a final time with a eulogy
Joe Biden is the consummate Washington insider. Jimmy Carter was anything but. Yet the 46th and 39th U.S. presidents had a decades-long friendship starting when Biden, as a young ...
Lawsuit alleges racial and gender discrimination led to an Air Force contractor’s death
On the night Stephanie Cosme died, her sister and brother said they received a curt explanation from a U.S. Air Force official who met them at the hospital: The civilian contractor ...
Italian journalist Cecilia Sala released from Iran and returning home
An Italian journalist detained in Iran since Dec. 19 has been freed and is heading back to Italy, Premier Giorgia Meloni’s office announced Wednesday. A plane carrying Cecilia Sala ...
Impeached South Korean president’s lawyers slam detention efforts as acting leader warns of clash
Lawyers for impeached South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol denounced efforts to detain him over his short-lived imposition of ...
Austrian foreign minister Schallenberg to serve as the country’s interim leader
Austrian Foreign Minister Alexander Schallenberg will serve as the country’s interim leader while the far-right Freedom Party ...
In his first 2025 catechism lesson, Pope says anyone who exploits or abuses a child answers to God
Pope Francis on Wednesday denounced the “scourge” of child labor and other abuses suffered by children, saying anyone who harms or exploits a child will have to answer to God. Francis ...
South Korean court clears government, adoption agency of liability in adoptee’s deportation from US
A South Korean court on Wednesday cleared the government and an adoption agency of all liability in a lawsuit filed by a 49-year-old Korean man whose traumatic adoption ...