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Time magazine called the ex-president’s plans ‘an imperial presidency that would reshape America and its role in the world’...

New rules that tighten Chinese government restrictions on the country’s internet companies have come into effect today, raising concerns about how they will be applied....

South Korea has held talks about joining a landmark defense technology pact between Australia, the United States and Britain....

Nineteen people have died after part of a highway collapsed in China’s southern Guangdong province, according to state media...

Alternative for Germany’s core supporters are sticking with the party despite allegations of dodgy links to Russia and China....

The fertility rate in the United States has been trending down for decades, and a new report shows that another drop in births in 2023 brought the rate down to the lowest it’s been in more than a century....

Fewer than 20,000 babies were born in Korea in February, a record low for the month...

Ukraine is taking out oil refineries inside Russia, cratering Moscow’s supplies and sending local prices soaring....

Nearly 45,000 households had nowhere to live in the three months to December last year, official figures show...

Twenty-three million families in the U.S. will have bigger internet bills starting in May. That’s because a federal broadband subsidy program they’re enrolled in is nearly out of money....

Clinic staff described packed waiting rooms, full parking lots and phones ringing nonstop in the final days before the state’s new law takes effect....

Prosecutors from the Manhattan District Attorney’s Office accused Trump of violating the gag order numerous times since it went into effect....

Google and X, formerly Twitter, recently provided hundreds of files to Michigan prosecutors for their 2020 election subversion probe, complying with search warrants that investigators obtained after CNN revealed secret social media accounts belonging to pro-Trump lawyer Kenneth Chesebro, who played a major role in the fake...

The Transportation Department projects the new rule could save 360 lives a year and prevent 24,000 injuries....

Despite Bill Barr’s repeatedly voicing concerns about Donald Trump, he has now said he will vote for him again this November...

Gov. Greg Abbott ordered schools in the state to ignore new rules from the Biden administration....

West Virginia and North Carolina’s refusal to cover certain health care for transgender people with government-sponsored insurance is discriminatory, a federal appeals court ruled Monday in a case likely headed to the U.S. Supreme Court....

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Politicians and dog experts are criticizing South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem after she wrote in a new book about killing a rambunctious puppy. The story — and the vilification she received on social media — has some wondering whether she’s still a viable potential running mate for presumptive Republican presidential candidate...

The first scientist to publish a sequence of the COVID-19 virus in China was staging a sit-in protest after authorities locked him out of his lab....

The officer, with ties to the far-right AfD party, said he provided information to a Russian intelligence service out of fear of a nuclear escalation in Moscow’s war in Ukraine....

Prosecutors said Monday they will not retry an Arizona rancher whose trial in the fatal shooting of a Mexican man on his property ended last week with a deadlocked jury....

Cheng “Charlie” Saephan, who was born in Laos and immigrated to the U.S. in 1994, plans to split the money with a friend and find himself a “good doctor.”...

Report to United Nations security council says remnants of Hwasong-11 violate arms export embargo on Russian ally...

T-Mobile, Verizon, Sprint and AT&T say they will appeal against ‘excessive’ fines meted out by US regulator...

Virus has already killed other mammals including sea lions and seals, while also taking toll on farm animals...

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A U.S. Navy ship and several Army vessels involved in an American-led effort to bring more aid into the besieged Gaza Strip are offshore of the enclave and building out a floating platform for the operation that the Pentagon has said will cost at least $320 million....

Authorities say water cannons “directly hit the starboard astern of the BFAR vessel,” in the Scarborough Shoal, which China seized in 2012....

Meta’s handling of political ads may be a focus ahead of the EU election in June....

Europe’s banks’ retreat from Moscow is entering its final stage, but instead of having General Winter at their heels, they have the European Central Bank....

A stricter abortion law is set to take effect in Florida on Wednesday — dropping the state’s 15-week ban to a six-week ban — and it will likely affect thousands of people seeking abortion care within the first month alone....

Dubai International Airport, the world’s busiest for international travel, will move its operations to the city-state’s second, sprawling airfield in its southern desert reaches “within the next 10 years” in a project worth nearly $35 billion, its ruler said Sunday....

North Korea criticized the United States for supplying long-range missiles to Ukraine, state media KCNA reported on Monday, citing a statement from the defence ministry....

Governor Ron DeSantis’s challenging of a ‘continuous eligibility’ rule has booted over 22,000 children off insurance since January...

More than 40 people have died in Kenya after a dam burst following heavy rains and flooding, officials have said....

The decipherment of an ancient scroll has revealed where the Greek philosopher Plato is buried, Italian researchers suggest....

Two Ukrainian servicemen were stabbed to death at a shopping center in southern Germany Saturday evening, by a suspected Russian national, German and Ukrainian authorities say....

The first of three trials involving a far-right network of “Reichsbürger” around ringleader Prince Reuss is about to start. The group is accused of planning to topple the government....

For the first time, Moldova can cut an energy link to its breakaway territory. Yet doing so risks Moscow’s threats and a possible humanitarian crisis....

The US has purchased 81 Soviet-era combat aircraft from Kazakhstan, the Kyiv Post reports....

A San Gabriel Valley woman who was accused of using counterfeit postage on tens of millions of packages pleaded guilty Friday to defrauding the United States Postal Service out of more than $150 million....

A 38-year-old man repeatedly tries to force his wife to have sex in the middle of the night but has no memory of his actions when he wakes up....

Home products retailer Williams-Sonoma will have to pay almost $3.2 million for violating a Federal Trade Commission “Made in USA” order....

Two Chinese nationals have been charged for an alleged scheme to illegally export a semiconductor dicing machine to a Chinese tech company. One of the two, Han Li, 44, was arrested in Chicago on Wednesday, while Lin Chen, 64, is believed to be in China. The charges and arrest are the latest developments in a protracted trade war...

Tornadoes killed four people in Oklahoma and left thousands without power Sunday after a destructive outbreak of severe weather flattened buildings in the heart of one rural town and injured at least 100 people across the state....

There’s a tendency in this heated political climate to simply reject people who are saying false things and to write off conspiracy theorists writ large....

Up to 113 active Russian servicemen were convicted in 2023 - a near 900 per cent increase on just 13 in 2022...