U.S. Rep. Katie Porter (D-Irvine) and former baseball player Steve Garvey react during a televised debate at USC on Jan. 22, 2024, for candidates in the race to succeed the late California Sen. Dianne Feinstein. (Damian Dovarganes / Associated Press) Donald Trump’s strong victory in the New Hampshire presidential primary Tuesday probably hurt fellow Republican … Read more
Supporters of India’s ruling Bharatiya Janata Party celebrate in Mumbai during the inauguration of the Ram temple in Ayodhya. AP Photo Supporters of India’s ruling Bharatiya Janata Party celebrate in Mumbai during the inauguration of the Ram temple in Ayodhya. AP Photo Authorities in India’s financial capital Mumbai have been sharply criticised for demolishing properties, … Read more
People Power Party lawmaker Bae Hyunjin speaks at the National Assembly in Seoul, South Korea, on May 31, 2023. South Korean police say a governing party lawmaker is being treated at a Seoul hospital after being attacked by an unidentified man who struck her head with a rock-like object.Photo by Go Bum-joon /THE ASSOCIATED PRESS … Read more
High-tech and war are integrating some ultra-Orthodox Jews into Israel’s secular society Yakob Shoolman spent years studying the Torah, pouring over ancient scripture like many boys in his ultra-Orthodox Jewish neighborhood. He lived a sequestered religious life, marrying early and having four children before he was 30. But these days Shoolman is learning how to … Read more
Sick Pakistani children at the District Headquarters Hospital in the flood-affected Muzaffargarh district, in Punjab province. AP Sick Pakistani children at the District Headquarters Hospital in the flood-affected Muzaffargarh district, in Punjab province. AP At least 220 children have died of pneumonia in Pakistan’s Punjab province since January 1, health authorities reported on Wednesday. Fourteen … Read more
TOKYO (AP) — Japan’s space agency said Thursday that its first lunar mission hit the tiny patch of the moon’s surface it was aiming for, in a successful demonstration of its pinpoint landing system _ although the probe appears to be lying upside-down. Japan became the fifth country in history to reach the moon when … Read more
TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) — A bipartisan delegation from the United States Congress reaffirmed support for Taiwan during a visit Thursday, following the election of its new president. The delegation’s visit is the first from U.S. lawmakers to the island since the independence-leaning Democratic Progressive Party won a third-straight term in the Jan. 13 presidential election. … Read more
SYDNEY (AP) — It’s a tiny Pacific island nation, one of the world’s smallest. But on Friday, elections in Tuvalu will be watched from Beijing and Taipei to Canberra, as voters choose a 16-seat parliament and, after negotiations, a prime minister. A big part of the international attention is linked to the increasing importance of … Read more
AUGUSTA, Maine (AP) — A commission investigating a mass shooting that killed 18 people in Maine last year is scheduled to hear Thursday from a police agency that had contact with the shooter before he committed the killings. Democratic Gov. Janet Mills and state Attorney General Aaron Frey assembled the commission to review the events … Read more
WASHINGTON (AP) — A Trump White House official convicted of contempt of Congress for refusing to cooperate with a congressional investigation into the Jan. 6, 2021 attack on the U.S. Capitol is set to be sentenced Thursday. Prosecutors are asking a judge to sentence Peter Navarro to six months behind bars and impose a $200,000 … Read more