Jan. 26—BEMIDJI — As the opening day for the new Bemidji Veterans Home draws closer, the facility has been giving tours to groups that have helped make the dream a reality. On Friday morning, the tour was for U.S. Senator Amy Klobuchar, who was one of the primary advocates for getting the project federal funding. […]
A community open house that included young people brought Sen. Laphonza Butler for her first visit to Fresno on Friday since taking office. “I am choosing to show up in communities like this,” Butler said, “because I believe you truly are the future of our democracy.” The Democrat was sworn into office on Oct. 3 […]
Denmark will extend $18 million in financial assistance to Ukraine for anti-corruption programs, Danish Foreign Minister Lars Lokke Rasmussen announced during a visit to Mykolayiv on Jan. 26. The funding will come as a part of the third phase of EU’s Anti-Corruption Initiative (EUACI), which Copenhagen has been leading since 2016. Ukraine had already made […]
German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock received a briefing on the situation in South Sudan at the headquarters of the UN Blue Helmet mission in the East African country in the face of a worsening humanitarian crisis. Baerbock was welcomed in the capital Juba on Friday by the deputy head of the military observation mission and […]
WASHINGTON (AP) — Embargoed until Thursday at 1:35 pm EST Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen is visiting Illinois and electoral battleground Wisconsin this week to make a case for the Biden administration’s economic agenda and offer a reminder about the Trump administration tax cuts, which she says added to the deficit and did little to promote […]
Polish prime minister Donald Tusk has vowed to keep supporting Ukraine in the face of the Russian invasion – and to resolve differences between Warsaw and Kyiv over grain shipments and trucking. Mr Tusk, who returned to power last month and is keen to show that a change in government will not alter Poland’s Ukraine […]
Elon Musk, who has been accused of allowing antisemitic messages on his social media platform, X, has visited the site of the Auschwitz-Birkenau death camp. Mr Musk’s visit at the most notorious site of the horrors of the Holocaust came before a scheduled appearance later on Monday at a conference on antisemitism organised by the […]
Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk has vowed to keep supporting Ukraine in the face of the Russian invasion – and to resolve differences between Warsaw and Kyiv over grain shipments and trucking. Mr Tusk, who returned to power last month and is keen to show that a change in government will not alter Poland’s Ukraine […]
KRAKOW, Poland (AP) — Elon Musk visited the site of the Auschwitz-Birkenau World War II Nazi German death camp on Monday, after the billionaire faced criticism for subscribing to an antisemitic conspiracy theory and allowing hate messages on his social media platform, X, formerly known as Twitter. The private visit was apparently in response to […]
KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk arrived in Ukraine’s capital Monday for talks with President Volodymyr Zelenskyy on how Poland can keep supporting the country’s almost two-year war with Russia and resolve a dispute between the neighboring nations over grain shipments and trucking. Tusk, who returned to power in Poland last month […]
Jan. 19—Sen. Amy Klobuchar was in Austin Friday afternoon to tour the new early childhood education center, currently being built in northwest Austin, across from Worlein Funeral Home. Klobuchar met with officials from Hormel Food Corps, which is building the facility, and city leaders before a tour of the $5 million, 13,000 square foot facility. […]
Jan. 18—PITTSTON — Nicole Vu was nervous and she became emotional when talking about the quality care her children receive at the Greater Pittston YMCA. And Vu also was chosen to introduce Gov. Josh Shapiro, who was in town to talk about his effort to expand child and dependent care tax credits and increases in […]