HOUSTON (AP) — Juli McShay had a few pointed questions for James Talarico, the Democratic nominee for the U.S. Senate in Texas, when she stood up during a town hall in Houston. Black audiences like this one are key to Talarico’s effort to defeat Republican…
U.S. President Donald Trump and the leaders of Denmark and Greenland signed an agreement about the status of the Arctic island after months of threats by Trump to seize the semiautonomous territory of a NATO ally. The deal was officially signed Tuesday in New York,…
WASHINGTON (AP) — A new poll from The Associated Press in partnership with KFF finds that about half of rural American voters believe the economy is worse off now than when President Donald Trump returned to office, pointing to economic frustration among a key group…
The practice of allowing a doctor to help terminally ill patients end their lives with medication has been legalized in recent years in several countries across the world. In the U.S., New York and Illinois recently became the latest of 13 states to join an…
CHICAGO (AP) — Deb Robertson counted the days, hoping she’d live long enough for a new Illinois law to go into effect that allows terminally ill people like her to use a lethal prescription to end their lives. A diagnosis of a rare, aggressive form…
Iran reiterated its conditions for ending more than seven months of war with the United States, while Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu pushed back against French President Emmanuel Macron’s remarks about the occupied West Bank during the United Nations General Assembly. Here is the latest…
ROME (AP) — Rome’s Colosseum was closed to the public on Wednesday to mourn a worker who fell to his death late Tuesday, according to a statement from the archaeological park’s press office. The 22-year-old man, Andrea Moretti, specialized in working at altitude on ropes.…
AVELLANEDA, Argentina (AP) — Several nights a week, scores of supporters of Argentina’s divisive former president, Cristina Fernández de Kirchner, gather outside the French-style apartment building in Buenos Aires where she is under house arrest, beating drums, blaring trumpets and chanting, “Cristina for president!” After…
BEIJING (AP) — A 6-year-old Chinese girl has set a new women’s world record by solving Rubik’s cubes at an average pace of just over four seconds per cube. Lian Yunzhi first broke the record earlier this month with an average time of 4.52 seconds…
WASHINGTON (AP) — About half of rural American voters believe the economy is worse off now than when President Donald Trump returned to office, according to a new survey that points to economic frustration among a key group that has backed Trump and other Republicans…
