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…
ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia (AP) — Ethiopian Airlines canceled all flights to the troubled northern region of Tigray on Wednesday morning, the state-owned carrier announced amid fears of an escalation in fighting between federal and regional forces. The cancellations came three days after seven opposition groups,…
Washington (AP) — Two leading progressive lawmakers, Sen. Bernie Sanders and Rep. Greg Casar, are unveiling legislation Wednesday that would ban artificial superintelligence and create a federal agency to oversee advanced AI as some of the industry’s own leaders urge Congress to impose guardrails on…
By Jan Wolfe and Jack Queen WASHINGTON, Sept 23 (Reuters) – News outlets CNN, MS NOW and Politico will ask a federal judge on Wednesday to immediately restore their access to the White House after President Donald Trump banned them in one of his most…
THE HAGUE, Sept 23 (Reuters) – Judges at the International Criminal Court on Wednesday convicted a former Seleka militia leader from the Central African Republic for torture as a crime against humanity. Prosecutors had said Mahamat Said Abdel Kani had ran a prison where suspected…
