May 2 (Reuters) – Nobel Peace Prize winner Narges Mohammadi was in an Iranian hospital after a “catastrophic deterioration of her health,” including a “cardiac crisis”, a foundation run by her family said. The secretary of the Norwegian Nobel Committee, which awarded Mohammadi the 2023 prize, expressed concern on Thursday that the condition of the …
MEXICO CITY, May 1 (Reuters) – Cuba rejects fresh sanctions levied on Friday by U.S. President Donald Trump, the island’s foreign minister said, calling them “unilateral coercive measures” that aim to impose “collective punishment against the Cuban people.” Cuban Foreign Minister Bruno Rodriguez said in a post on X that the measures, made via an …
Less than a month after former NASCAR driver Greg Biffle and his family died in a plane crash last year, investigators say two of their “friends” conspired to break into the empty home and took cash, guns and financial information in an attempt to steal hundreds of thousands of dollars. More than 40 search warrants …
BOSTON, May 1 (Reuters) – Democratic fundraising platform ActBlue sued Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton on Friday, trying to block the Republican from pursuing investigations and litigation against it as part of what the lawsuit calls an unlawful retribution campaign. ActBlue’s lawsuit in federal court in Boston asked a judge to prevent Paxton from moving forward …
Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins this week attributed a multimillion-person drop in the number of participants receiving food stamps through the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program to the tamping down of fraud and an improved economy. But experts discount those factors, saying the primary driver of the decrease was more likely new legislation that changed how the …
Spirit Airlines announced early Saturday morning that it is ceasing operations after the budget carrier failed to secure a $500 million federal bailout. Spirit Aviation Holdings, the airline’s parent company, said in a news release that it “regretfully announced” that it had “started an orderly wind-down of operations, effective immediately.” “All Spirit flights have been …
May 1 (Reuters) – The Republican governors of Alabama, South Carolina and Tennessee made clear on Friday they will try to push through congressional maps more favorable to their party ahead of November’s midterm elections, the latest fallout from the U.S. Supreme Court’s seismic voting rights ruling on Wednesday. Democratic voters, civil rights groups and …
WASHINGTON, May 1 (Reuters) – U.S. President Donald Trump’s administration has bypassed congressional review to approve military sales totaling over $8.6 billion to Middle Eastern allies Israel, Qatar, Kuwait and the United Arab Emirates. The State Department announcements on Friday came as the U.S. and Israel’s war against Iran marked nine weeks since its start …
ASHGABAT, May 2 (Reuters) – From a brightly lit, open-plan office Azat Seyitmuhammedov runs an e-commerce startup, Wabrum, that he founded almost a decade ago. In Berlin or San Francisco, this would be an everyday scene, but here in the capital of Turkmenistan, which is widely seen as one of the world’s most isolated and …
WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. (AP) — Cash-strapped Spirit Airlines appeared closer to a shutdown after Friday came and went without a needed government bailout. President Donald Trump said Friday that his administration had given the budget carrier a “final proposal” for a taxpayer-funded takeover to keep it from going under, but the absence of a …