WASHINGTON (AP) — Republicans are unhappier with President Donald Trump’s handling of the economy than they were a few months ago, but they’re largely continuing to stand behind him as the war with Iran continues, a new AP-NORC poll finds. The poll comes as the war with Iran fuels higher gasoline prices, while the U.S. …
Washington — The final weeks of the Supreme Court’s term are fast approaching, and the justices are poised to hand down decisions in some of its most significant cases before they go their separate ways for the summer. The high court has already struck down President Trump’s sweeping tariffs and weakened the Voting Rights Act. …
HONG KONG, May 20 (Reuters) – Rescue workers used boats or swam through floodwaters to evacuate people in waterlogged areas across central and southwest China on Wednesday after torrential rain killed at least 25 people and shut businesses, schools and transport links. Heavy rain is expected to continue across southern and central parts of the …
May 20 (Reuters) – Kyiv and Budapest began expert-level consultations online on Wednesday, the countries’ foreign ministers said. • Ukrainian Foreign Minister Andrii Sybiha said he focused his opening statement on three key issues – bilateral relations, minority rights, and Ukraine’s EU accession. • Both countries look to rebuild ties following a change of government …
GENEVA (AP) — The head of the World Health Organization said on Wednesday the risk of global spread of the Ebola outbreak in Congo and Uganda is high at national, regional levels but low at the global level. WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said so far 51 cases have been confirmed in Congo in the …
MOSCOW, May 20 (Reuters) – Russia and China said on Wednesday that U.S. President Donald Trump’s Golden Dome missile-defence shield plans threatened strategic stability and that Washington had been irresponsible not to work on a replacement for a landmark nuclear treaty. The rebuke was issued in a joint statement after President Xi Jinping welcomed President …
WASHINGTON/MADRID, May 20 (Reuters) – The United States’ Department of Homeland Security assisted Spanish police in a money-laundering probe that led to an investigation by Spain’s High Court of former Prime Minister Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero, a DHS spokesperson said. The Spanish court said on Tuesday Zapatero was being investigated for allegedly leading an influence-peddling …
MALE, Maldives (AP) — Divers on Wednesday recovered the last two bodies of the four Italians who died deep inside an underwater cave in the Maldives last week. The Italian divers had been exploring the cave in Vaavu Atoll last Thursday when they disappeared. The body of their Italian diving instructor was recovered outside the …
Coco Gauff has a new approach for her second time around attempting to defend a Grand Slam title. The American’s strategy heading into the French Open — the clay-court major that starts Sunday and which she won a year ago — goes something like this: Don’t think about it as defending something. “I realize that …
NEW DELHI (AP) — In New Delhi’s chaotic traffic, where the backs of auto-rickshaws sometimes double as mobile billboards, some commuters are now being greeted by an unlikely face: U.S. President Donald Trump. Splashed beneath his portrait is the slogan, “Happy Birthday America!” About 100 auto-rickshaws carrying large images of Trump and the Statue of …