Jul 24 India’s Parliament rocked by protests for a third day over ethnic violence in remote state By Associated Press Opposition lawmakers carried placards and chanted slogans outside the Parliament building as they demanded a statement from Prime Minister Narendra Modi on the violence in Manipur state before a debate on the issue. Continue reading
Jul 24 UN chief urges Russia to revive Ukraine grain deal, warning ‘the most vulnerable’ will suffer By Frances D'Emilio, Associated Press Guterres said with the termination of the deal, "the most vulnerable will pay the highest price." He told the gathering that there are already negative effects on global wheat and corn prices. Continue reading
Jul 24 How Trump is gaining an advantage in the nitty-gritty battle for delegates By Michelle L. Price, Associated Press Trump's political team has been working for years to shape the mosaic of local GOP rules around how delegates are awarded in each state after the complex and sometimes convoluted rules tripped up his 2016 campaign. Continue reading
Jul 24 Challenge to Florida drag shows law won’t go to trial until spring 2024 By Associated Press For the time being, the law has been put on hold since a federal judge last month issued a temporary injunction preventing it from being enforced until the trial. The state of Florida has appealed that decision. Continue reading
Jul 24 WATCH: White House holds briefing as feds sue Texas governor over floating border barrier By Tia Goldenberg, Isaac Scharf, Associated Press The Justice Department on Monday sued Texas Gov. Greg Abbott over a newly installed floating barrier on the Rio Grande that is the Republican's latest aggressive tactic to try stopping migrants from crossing into the U.S. from Mexico. Continue reading
Jul 24 Texas uses disaster declarations to install buoys and razor wire to stop migration on border By Valerie Gonzalez, Acacia Coronado, Associated Press Texas Gov. Greg Abbott has escalated measures to keep migrants from entering the U.S. The Republican is pushing legal boundaries along the border with Mexico to install razor wire, deploy massive buoys on the Rio Grande and bulldoze border islands… Continue reading
Jul 24 American-led UN Command says it’s communicating with North Korea about U.S. soldier By Kim Tong-Hyung, Associated Press The American-led U.N. Command says it has started a conversation with North Korea about a U.S. soldier who ran into the North last week across one of the world's most heavily fortified borders. Continue reading
Jul 23 Biden will establish a national monument for Emmett Till, Black teen lynched in 1955 By Darlene Superville, Associated Press President Joe Biden will establish a national monument honoring Emmett Till, the Black teenager from Chicago who was abducted, tortured and killed in 1955 after he was accused of whistling at a white woman in Mississippi, and his mother, a White House official… Continue reading
Jul 22 Watch 5:31 Oklahoma death row prisoner’s case reignites debate over capital punishment By Adam Kemp, Andrew Corkery, Harry Zahn Death row prisoner Richard Glossip has been scheduled to be executed in Oklahoma nine times since 2015. The courts have delayed his execution each time so that legal challenges could be considered. Now, Glossip is asking the Supreme Court to… Continue watching
Jul 21 New report points to homicide rate declines in U.S. cities after pandemic spike By Lindsay Whitehurst, Associated Press Homicides are declining in a cross-section of American cities, though their numbers remain higher than before the coronavirus pandemic took hold. That is according to a new report analyzing data from 30 U.S. cities. Continue reading