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 …
When Melanie Miller saw that her health insurance premium payment was set to nearly triple to $914 a month this year, she stopped shopping on the Affordable Care Act marketplace. The 59-year-old retired teacher, who recently moved from Ohio to Michigan, now pays $341 a month for a pair of plans, one that covers routine …
May 20 (Reuters) – The United States is urging Ukraine to relax restrictions on imports of potash fertilizers from Belarus and to press European allies to follow suit, Bloomberg News reported on Wednesday, citing people familiar with the matter. According to the report, Washington has argued that dropping restrictions on the imports of the key …
SOFIA, May 20 (Reuters) – Bulgarian Prime Minister Rumen Radev on Wednesday said he spoke to U.S. President Donald Trump over the phone and brought up visa-free travel for Bulgarian nationals to the U.S. “In my conversation with the American president, I insistently raised the issue of lifting U.S. visa requirements for Bulgarian citizens and …
DENVER (AP) — The Colorado Supreme Court has ordered Colorado’s largest provider of gender-affirming care for young people to resume medical treatments like puberty blockers and hormone therapy despite threats that providing the care could lead to losing federal funding. Children’s Hospital Colorado suspended medical treatments for transgender patients under 18 in January after it …
RANCHO PALOS VERDES, Calif. (AP) — Big Ten commissioner Tony Petitti painted his conference’s 24-team College Football Playoff proposal as a way of making the regular season more meaningful — not less — and said he’s surprised he keeps having to explain that to a stout group of critics who favor a smaller expansion. “When …