WASHINGTON (AP) – Secretary of State Marco Rubio will travel to France this week to try to sell America’s skeptical Group of Seven allies on the strategy of the Iran war that has sent global fuel prices soaring, the State Department said Tuesday.
WASHINGTON (AP) – Senators raced Tuesday to clinch an emerging proposal to end the Homeland Security shutdown by funding much of the department, including the Transportation Security Administration airport workers going without pay, but excluding ICE operations that have been core to the dispute.
COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) – Danish voters went to the polls Tuesday in a general election, with Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen seeking a third term at the helm of the Scandinavian country after a standoff with U.S. President Donald Trump over the future of the kingdom’s semiautonomous territory of Greenland.
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) – North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has pledged to irreversibly cement his country’s status as a nuclear power while maintaining a hard-line stance toward South Korea, which he called the “most hostile” state, state media said Tuesday.
PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) – The Trump administration will pay $1 billion to a French company to walk away from two U.S. offshore wind leases as the administration ramps up its campaign against offshore wind and other renewable energy.
Some journalists at Voice of America charged in a lawsuit Monday that the Trump administration – while largely shutting down the government-run outlet that provides news around the world – has turned what remains into a voice for propaganda.
NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) – The Kenyan government said Tuesday that two rivers have burst their banks, flooding farms and displacing families as the death toll in flooding in the east African nation this month rose to 88. At least 21 counties have been affected by the floods, raising concerns over public safety, infrastructure damage and growing humanitarian needs.
BUDAPEST, Hungary (AP) – The leaders of over a dozen European far-right parties gathered in Hungary’s capital on Monday in a show of support for Prime Minister Viktor Orbán, a nationalist figure beloved by U.S. and European conservatives whose performance in a pivotal election in April could set the tone for the movement’s future.
LOS ANGELES (AP) – A civil jury in California found Monday that Bill Cosby was liable for drugging and sexually assaulting a woman in 1972 and awarded her $59.25 million. After a nearly two-week trial in Santa Monica, jurors found Cosby, 88, liable for the sexual battery and assault of Donna Motsinger.
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