A liberal lawyer has ousted South Korea’s troubled ruling party’s presidential candidate on Tuesday, ending months of political instability that began with a botched declaration of martial law. A joint exit poll by three major broadcasters, KBS, MBC and SBS, showed that, with 51.7% of the vote, Lee Jae-myung was well ahead of his conservative…
WASHINGTON — Congressional leaders are expecting the White House to send them a package as soon as Tuesday that would claw back $9.4 billion in approved spending, most of it for foreign aid. The so-called rescissions package will include money that has been approved by Congress that the Trump administration no longer wants to spend,…
Clint Eastwood denied making comments to an Austrian newspaper that quoted him as criticizing filmmakers for their lack of originality, saying the entire interview was “phony.” The German-language Austrian newspaper Kurier published the question-and-answer interview purportedly with the legendary filmmaker on Friday. The article quotes Eastwood responding to a question about the current state of…
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Democratic attorneys general around the country were at the forefront of the legal battles that put up roadblocks to key parts of President Donald Trump’s sweeping agenda at the outset of his new administration. Now, even as the initial rapid-fire onslaught of executive actions has slowed, they are vowing to keep up their aggressive —…
The “stick to sports” door swings both ways. While the term rose to significance as a catchphrase for conservative voices who hoped to shout down athletes and media with conflicting beliefs (athletes and media who agreed were and are exempt from being told to shut up), fans who have concerns about the current state of…
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico — A massive cloud of dust from the Sahara Desert blanketed most of the Caribbean on Monday in the biggest event of its kind this year as it heads toward the United States. The cloud extended some 2,000 miles (3,200 kilometers) from Jamaica to well past Barbados in the eastern Caribbean,…
Following Sunday’s incident, an Israeli military official told NBC News that soldiers fired warning shots “toward several suspects” about a half-mile from an aid distribution center, but they maintained that there was no connection between this and what they described as “false claims” made against the military. In a statement issued Monday, the GHF maintained…
For decades, the FBI and the Justice Department have been the main enforcers of laws against political corruption and white-collar fraud in the United States. In four months, the Trump administration has dismantled key parts of that law enforcement infrastructure, creating what experts say is the ripest environment for corruption by public officials and business executives in a generation….
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico — Activists on Monday celebrated a decision by Puerto Rico’s Supreme Court to allow nonbinary and gender-nonconforming people to update their birth certificates. The ruling comes after a group of six nonbinary people filed a lawsuit against Puerto Rico’s governor, its health secretary and other officials. The ruling means that nonbinary…
