By Alexander Cornwell DUBAI (Reuters) – Negotiations between China and an Arab bloc for a free trade agreement have stalled over concerns by Saudi Arabia that cheap Chinese imports could undermine its ambitions to transform the kingdom into an industrial powerhouse, sources say. Saudi Arabia has backed renewed efforts over the past two years for […]
SEATTLE (AP) — President Joe Biden is running for reelection on a record and an agenda — often Donald Trump’s. In a hotel ballroom in Seattle, at fancy homes in California and at stops in Illinois and Wisconsin over the past week, Biden has been betting that reminding voters about Trump’s presidency and highlighting his […]
A former employee of the prominent open source software provider Red Hat filed a lawsuit in federal court Wednesday, claiming he was “a victim of Red Hat’s discriminatory employment policies.” Kingsley Wood, who is white, started at the Raleigh-based company in 2015 and most recently worked as a senior sales director. In the lawsuit, Wood […]
May 6—State lawmakers on both sides of the aisle expressed skepticism Monday about Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham‘s legislative agenda for a special session in July focused on public safety. Members of the interim Courts, Corrections and Justice Committee questioned in particular whether the governor is moving too quickly on a civil and criminal competency bill […]
The Arctic National Wildlife Refuge sprawls to the shoreline of the Beaufort Sea, seen here in 2006. The U.S. House passed a bill Wednesday to allow oil and gas leases in the refuge. (Photo by Steve Hillebrand/U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service) The U.S. House passed a bill Wednesday to counter an Interior Department order banning […]
The Arctic National Wildlife Refuge sprawls to the shoreline of the Beaufort Sea, seen here in 2006. The U.S. House passed a bill Wednesday to allow oil and gas leases in the refuge. (Photo by Steve Hillebrand/U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service) The U.S. House passed a bill Wednesday to counter an Interior Department order banning […]
Ten bison from Yellowstone National Park were released into the existing herd of buffalo on the tribal lands of the Taos Pueblo in New Mexico on Wednesday. On hand for the release was Assistant Secretary for Indian Affairs Bryan Newland (Bay Mills Indian Community). Newland highlighted the significant funding the Interior Department has invested through […]
Poland’s Foreign Minister Radek Sikorski told parliament that the government wants to return to the group of countries which sets the agenda of the European Union. He also warned that a Russian attack on Nato would end in defeat for Moscow, but Nato must increase its defences. Mr Sikorski was describing the new direction of […]
Now that Lara Trump is helping lead the Republican National Committee, the former president’s daughter-in-law appears to have made election denialism a priority for the party. But as it turns out, that’s not the RNC co-chair’s only focus. Consider the message Lara Trump recently shared with an audience about her father-in-law: A video of the […]
BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) — Thousands of Colombians took to the streets Sunday in the latest rebuke of leftist President Gustavo Petro‘s reform agenda. The demonstrations took place in several cities, including the capital. Protesters filled Bolivar Plaza outside the presidential palace in Bogota. While protests have been a constant since the former leftist guerrilla took […]
Thousands of Colombians took to the streets on Sunday in the latest rebuke of leftist President Gustavo Petro’s reform agenda. The demonstrations took place in several cities, including the capital. Protesters filled Bolivar Plaza outside the presidential palace in Bogota. Demonstrators holding signs reading in Spanish ‘No to the Health Reform’, left, and ‘No to […]
ROSARIO, Argentina (AP) — The order to kill came from inside a federal prison near Argentina’s capital. Unwitting authorities patched a call from drug traffickers tied to one of the country’s most notorious gangs to collaborators on the outside. Hiring a 15-year-old hit man, they sealed the fate of a young father they didn’t even […]