
Slow start on World Bank reform angers climate-hit countries
The meetings that closed on Sunday were supposed to be a first step in a new era of affordable loans for developing nations hard hit by climate change

The meetings that closed on Sunday were supposed to be a first step in a new era of affordable loans for developing nations hard hit by climate change

The consent decree was one of the longest in the country and resulted from a 1969 civil rights lawsuit against city police by several Hartford residents

Raising retirement age from 62 to 64, the president insists, was necessary to keep the pension system afloat as the population ages

A grand jury has voted not to indict eight Ohio police officers who fired dozens of rounds at Jayland Walker after a car and foot chase that ended in the 25-year-old Black man being shot to death last summer

A federal judge has rejected Donald Trump’s latest attempt to delay his rape trial, saying the former president cannot make public statements to promote pretrial publicity and then claim its prejudicial to him and reason to delay his trial

Officials separately announced charges against more than three dozen members of China’s national police, accusing them of creating and using fake social media accounts to locate and harass dissidents in the U.S.

The Senate Republican leader has been recovering at home since he was released from a rehabilitation facility March 25, after he fell earlier that month and injured his head and fractured a rib

The Saturday night shooting took place at a birthday party for the sister of one of the victims, who was celebrating at the Mahogany Masterpiece dance studio in Dadeville when gunfire erupted

The crash of Flight 447 from Rio to Paris killed 228 people and led to lasting changes in aircraft safety measures

Defending champion Evans Chebet won the race again. He surged to the front at Heartbreak Hill to spoil the much-anticipated debut of world record holder Eliud Kipchoge

Lula has refused to provide weapons to Ukraine while proposing a club of nations including Brazil and China to mediate peace

The centers are mostly for girls, who are banned from going to school beyond sixth grade, and are in the Taliban heartland provinces of Helmand and Kandahar

The former Minneapolis officer is serving a sentence of 22 and a half years on the second-degree murder count. His attorney had asked the appeals court to throw out the convictions

In a speech Monday at the New York Stock Exchange, the Republican leader lashed out at President Joe Biden for refusing to engage in budget cutting negotiations to prevent a debt crisis

The Senate will this week take up legislation to discourage migrant arrivals including proposals to eliminate or shorten a period of special protection for those unlikely to get refugee status
Juul says it has now settled with 48 states and territories, providing over $1 billion to participating states to combat underage use and develop cessation programs

Republican senators are eager to turn Jared Bernstein’s confirmation fight into a referendum on how effective the Biden administration has been in controlling rising prices and shepherding the economy out of the pandemic

Authorities are investigating the shooting of Ralph Yarl, a 16-year-old who was shot in the head after ringing the doorbell of a wrong home in Kansas City while trying to pick up his younger brothers

Slovakia has become the third European Union country to ban food imports from Ukraine, following similar decisions by Poland and Hungary

The House Judiciary Committee is holding a field hearing Monday near the offices of the New York DA who charged former president Donald Trump a few weeks ago
Elon Musk’s company plans to use the giant rocket to send astronauts and cargo to the moon and, ultimately, Mars

Airstrikes and shelling intensified on Monday in parts of the capital Khartoum and the adjoining city of Omdurman

The exercises could trigger a belligerent response from North Korea. Pyongyang condemns U.S. military drills with its Asian allies

Vladimir Kara-Murza, Jr., who twice survived poisonings he blamed on the Kremlin, has been behind bars since his arrest a year ago

Two young Black Tennessee state legislators have gone from neophyte politicians to national prominence. They’re being heralded as living echoes of the civil rights struggles of the 1960s

The Biden administration says it’s seeing minimal damage from the disclosure of highly classified documents related to the war in Ukraine and U.S. views of its allies and partners

The European Union wants Xi to persuade President Vladimir Putin to end Russia’s costly war in Ukraine. It’s also concerned about a military escalation around Taiwan