PRAGUE (AP) — Argentina’s self-described anarcho-capitalist President Javier Milei wrapped up his brief trip to three European Union countries by visiting the Czech Republic on Monday. Milei met Czech leaders, including his counterpart, retired Gen. Petr Pavel and conservative Prime Minister Petr Fiala, and gave a speech at a conference on how to deal with […]
Julian Bear Runner, 39, was sentenced last Thursday by a U.S. District Judge to 22 months in federal prison, followed by three years of supervised release and ordered to pay more than $80,000in restitution to the Oglala Sioux Tribe. Bear Runner served as the tribe’s president from 2018-2020. During his tenure, submitted fraudulent travel vouchers […]
NICE, France (AP) — Members of a pro-independence movement in the French Pacific territory of New Caledonia demanded on Monday the “release and immediate return” of the Indigenous Kanak leader who was flown to mainland France for pretrial detention after recent deadly unrest. Christian Tein, a leader of the movement known as The Field Action […]
OTTAWA (Reuters) – Canada’s ambassador to Beijing visited the region of Xinjiang last week and expressed concerns about human rights violations directly to local leaders, the Canadian foreign ministry said in a statement on Sunday. A 2022 report by the then U.N. human rights chief said China’s treatment of Uyghurs, a mainly Muslim ethnic minority […]
Nashville’s tourism industry could soon look quite different thanks to a newly proposed plan from the city’s tourism leaders. “The Music City Strategic Plan,” released on Thursday and co-chaired by Deana Ivey of the Nashville Convention and Visitors Corp. and Colin Reed of Ryman Hospitality Properties, outlines industry changes, improvements and other recommendations that aim […]
Ten young men and boys were injured during a mass shooting along High Street early Sunday in the Short North, the second such shooting in Ohio this month. All 10 victims — eight men 27 or younger and two boys between 16 and 18 — are expected to survive, police said. In early reports, police […]
Child care crisis I am very concerned about the lack of child care funding that is looming. If the N.C. General Assembly doesn’t fund early childhood education by June 30, nearly one-third of childcare providers statewide — an estimated 1,500 facilities — may have to shut down, leaving 91,660 kids without care and families without […]
Longtime civil rights activists and faith leaders are coming together to speak out against white Christian nationalism one day before the Republican National Convention. The “We All Belong” campaign, which was launched last year by multi-faith organization MICAH, will hold a “Rally for Democracy” on July 14 from 2 to 6 p.m. at University of […]
SAN DIEGO (FOX 5/KUSI) — Congressman Scott Peters, joined by other local leaders, is calling for stronger federal action to combat gun violence. At a press conference held on Thursday at the County Administration Building, Peters emphasized the urgency of addressing issues such as ghost guns and bump stocks. This June marks the eighth anniversary […]
Gov. Gavin Newsom, state lawmakers and health industry leaders have a small window to reach an agreement on billions of new dollars for Medi-Cal before it’s put to voters in November. An initiative, supported by virtually every sector of the state’s health care industry, as well as the local Republican and Democratic parties, would lock […]
MEXICO CITY (AP) — Two years have passed since a leader of one of Mexico’s organized crime gangs stormed into a Catholic church in the remote Tarahumara mountains and fatally shot two Jesuit priests. Among many faith leaders nationwide, the pain unleashed on June 20, 2022 — when the Revs. Javier Campos Morales, 79, and […]
The leaders of Germany’s 16 federal states are jointly calling on the German government to develop concrete potential models for outsourcing asylum procedures to countries outside the European Union. The state premiers agreed on a migration position paper ahead of their meeting with German Chancellor Olaf Scholz on Thursday, at which migration and asylum policy […]