Sri Lanka government to investigate allegation of intelligence complicity in 2019 Easter bombings
Sri Lanka's government will appoint a parliamentary committee to investigate allegations made in a British television report that Sri Lankan intelligence had complicity in the 2019 Easter Sunday bombings
2023-09-06 13:22
Things to know about aid, lawsuits and tourism nearly a month after fire leveled a Hawaii community
It's been nearly a month since the deadliest U.S. wildfire in more than a century killed at least 115 people in Hawaii
2023-09-06 13:18
Kentucky Democrat Beshear links GOP challenger to reality of abortion law in reelection campaign
Democratic Gov. Andy Beshear has pushed his opposition to Kentucky’s abortion ban to the forefront of his reelection campaign
2023-09-06 12:57
Clashes mount between Trump and his legal nemesis
Special counsel Jack Smith is not done with former President Donald Trump and his entourage, despite charging him with four criminal counts over his attempt to overthrow the 2020 election and more than three dozen other charges over his hoarding of classified documents in Florida.
2023-09-06 12:29
EPA delays new ozone pollution standards until after 2024 election
The Environmental Protection Agency is delaying plans to tighten air quality standards for ground-level ozone — better known as smog — despite a recommendation by a scientific advisory panel to lower air pollution limits to protect public health
2023-09-06 12:25
Federal budget deficit expected to nearly double to around $2 trillion, government watchdog says
The federal budget deficit is expected to balloon to about $2 trillion for fiscal year 2023, roughly double what it was in the previous fiscal year, according to a government watchdog group.
2023-09-06 12:23
Legal fights over voting districts could play role in control of Congress for 2024
Recent court rulings in some southern states could affect the battle for control of Congress in the 2024 election
2023-09-06 12:23
Russia is covering aircraft with car tires, potentially to protect them from Ukrainian drones
Moscow's forces have started covering some of their attack aircraft with car tires, in what experts say could be a makeshift attempt to protect them from Ukrainian drone strikes that have had increased recent success in targeting Russian military airports.
2023-09-06 12:21
Lawyers claim cable TV and phone companies also responsible in Maui fires
Lawyers for residents and business owners of the Hawaiian town devastated by last month’s fires on Maui told a court that cable TV and telephone companies share in responsibility for the disaster
2023-09-06 12:20
The US keeps deporting people to a country that it says is too dangerous for travel
The Biden administration has taken mixed positions on its policies involving Haiti -- with one federal agency warning that the Caribbean country is too dangerous for US citizens, while another agency deports Haitians back to the violence-torn country.
2023-09-06 12:19
China authorities arrest 2 for smashing shortcut through Great Wall with excavator
China’s Great Wall has been pierced by Genghis Khan, the Manchus, and now, allegedly, a couple of construction workers named Zheng and Wang who wanted a shortcut
2023-09-06 12:18
An alarming humanitarian crisis and massive sexual violence wrack eastern Congo, UN official says
A senior UN official says the humanitarian situation in conflict-wracked eastern Congo has deteriorated alarmingly in the past 18 months with 8 million people in urgent need of assistance and women and girls subjected to sexual violence on a massive scale -- just in three provinces
2023-09-06 11:46