• France's Macron seeks to rejuvenate his presidency, says country has 'all the aces to succeed'

    France's Macron seeks to rejuvenate his presidency, says country has 'all the aces to succeed'

    Jan 16, 2024 09:26 PM EDT

    ... by not having a majority in parliament. That sets him the challenge of trying to ensure that he remains relevant and doesn't become a lame duck. The Constitution doesn’t allow Macron to run for a third consecutive term in 2027. Macron said in his New Year's Eve ...

  • Trump leaves court before attorney told jury he tried to destroy columnist's reputation in defamation trial

    Trump leaves court before attorney told jury he tried to destroy columnist's reputation in defamation trial

    Jan 16, 2024 03:12 PM EDT

    ... to stop?" Trump attorney Alina Habba said the evidence will show that Carroll's career has prospered and she has been “thrust back into the limelight like she always has wanted.” She said Carroll's lawyers wanted to portray their client as someone whose reputation was ruined when “the evidence ...

  • Schools closed, flights grounded as dangerously cold temperatures sweep across U.S.

    Schools closed, flights grounded as dangerously cold temperatures sweep across U.S.

    Jan 16, 2024 02:39 PM EDT

    ... said. Freezing rain and sleet was expected to continue across portions of the Southeast into Tuesday morning. Winter storm warnings were in effect for Lawrence, Limestone and Madison counties in Alabama and in Franklin County in Tennessee, southeast Arkansas, northeast Louisiana and much of northern, central and southwestern Mississippi. Moderate ...

  • New book 'Our Enemies Will Vanish' recounts Ukrainian resistance against Russian invasion

    New book 'Our Enemies Will Vanish' recounts Ukrainian resistance against Russian invasion

    Jan 09, 2024 11:20 PM EDT

    Nick Schifrin: One of the success stories that Ukrainians had by October 2022 is outside of Kharkiv and specifically in Lyman. What did you see when you were one of the first reporters into some of these areas liberated by the Ukrainian soldiers? Yaroslav Trofimov: Me and Manu Brabo, the ...

  • Pope Francis calls for universal ban on surrogacy

    Pope Francis calls for universal ban on surrogacy

    Jan 08, 2024 05:32 PM EDT

    ... Francis’ usual tendency to spare Moscow direct, public blame for the invasion when expressing solidarity with the Ukrainian people. Francis was more balanced in his lament of Israel’s ongoing war in Gaza, condemning Hamas’ Oct. 7 assault on southern Israel “and every instance of terrorism and extremism.” At the ...

  • Proud Boys member who went on the run after conviction in the Jan. 6 riot gets 10 years in prison

    Proud Boys member who went on the run after conviction in the Jan. 6 riot gets 10 years in prison

    Jan 05, 2024 12:19 AM EDT

    ... treat an apparent opioid drug overdose, but prosecutors say he faked his condition to further stall his sentencing. Worrell suffers from a rare form of lymphoma and said he was afraid the cancer treatment he'd get during a long prison sentence could allow the disease to kill him. He ...

  • Harvard president resigns amid plagiarism claims, backlash from antisemitism testimony

    Harvard president resigns amid plagiarism claims, backlash from antisemitism testimony

    Jan 02, 2024 09:03 PM EDT

    ... is in the best interests of Harvard for me to resign so that our community can navigate this moment of extraordinary challenge.” Supporters of Gay lamented her resignation. “Racist mobs won’t stop until they topple all Black people from positions of power and influence who are not reinforcing the ...

  • Zapatista indigenous rebel movement marks 30 years since its armed uprising in southern Mexico

    Zapatista indigenous rebel movement marks 30 years since its armed uprising in southern Mexico

    Jan 01, 2024 09:53 PM EDT

    ... to what they were 30 years ago when the Zapatistas appeared, according to government data. Support for the movement has eroded with time and Ruiz lamented that younger generations have not carried the same convictions to maintain the struggle. Gerardo Alberto González, a professor in the Department of Public Health ...

  • The influential people we said goodbye to in 2023

    The influential people we said goodbye to in 2023

    Dec 31, 2023 11:33 PM EDT

    ... The Pulitzer Prize-winning poet who awed critics and readers with his singular art of lyricism and economy, tragic insight and disruptive humor. Jan. 9. Lynette “Diamond” Hardaway, 51. An ardent supporter of former President Donald Trump and one half of the conservative political commentary duo Diamond and Silk. Jan ...

  • Jacques Delors, architect of the modern European Union, dies aged 98

    Jacques Delors, architect of the modern European Union, dies aged 98

    Dec 27, 2023 06:42 PM EDT

    ... as EU Commission president but that he overreached at the end, alienating some European leaders who became “fed up with this guy who hogged the limelight.” A German businessman once likened Delors to the autocratic King Louis XIV of France. In 1992, the Maastricht Treaty that founded the EU clipped ...