Image copyright Getty Images Image caption Bill Barr is facing a contempt vote in the US House of Representatives US Attorney General William Barr should be held in contempt of Congress, the House of Representatives judiciary committee has ruled.Democrats on the committee took the rare step as tensions increased over the special counsel’s findings on…
Media playback is unsupported on your device Media captionPrince Harry held their two-day-old son The Duke and Duchess of Sussex have named their newborn son Archie Harrison Mountbatten-Windsor.Introducing him to the cameras earlier in the day, Meghan said: “He has the sweetest temperament, he’s really calm. He’s been the dream.”As they laughed, Prince Harry said:…
A Christian woman acquitted of blasphemy after spending eight years on death row in Pakistan has left for Canada to be reunited with her daughters, Pakistani officials and others involved in the case said Wednesday. Aasia Bibi was convicted of blasphemy in 2009 after a quarrel with a fellow farmworker. The Supreme Court overturned her…
One student was killed and eight others injured in a shooting at a K-12 school south of Denver, Colo. on Tuesday. Two shooters, both male students at the school, are in custody after a shooting at STEM School Highlands Ranch, a charter school in Highlands Ranch, Colo., according to Douglas County Sheriff Tony Spurlock. One…
WASHINGTON — A former White House lawyer defied a congressional subpoena Tuesday, setting the Trump administration on course for another collision with the Democratic-led House over its pursuit of documents related to the Russia investigation. Don McGahn’s refusal to provide the documents to the House Judiciary Committee came at the instruction of the White House,…
(AUSTIN, Texas) — Cellphone video recorded by Sandra Bland, a black woman found dead in a Texas jail in 2015 following a confrontational traffic stop, shows for the first time her perspective as a white state trooper draws his stun gun and points it at close range while ordering her out of the car. The…
(ATLANTA) — Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp on Tuesday signed into law one of the nation’s most restrictive abortion laws, a measure that bans the procedure once a fetal heartbeat can be detected, which can be as early as six weeks, before many women know they are pregnant. Kemp, a Republican, said he approved the bill…
The tip came in from Israeli intelligence: Iran was preparing to attack U.S. or allied forces in Iraq and Syria. U.S. military commanders’ responded by rushing a flotilla of American warships and bombers to the Persian Gulf — enough firepower to do lasting retaliatory damage. But the Americans wanted to ensure that Tehran’s leaders knew…
There’s an awful lot of awful in the just-released summary of a new U.N. report on biodiversity and ecosystem. There’s the tenfold increase in plastic pollution since 1980, for example. There’s the 400 million tons of heavy metals, toxic sludge and fertilizer runoff poured into the world’s water each year too. There’s the doubling of…
Image copyright AFP/Getty Image caption Cuba has held parades against homophobia for the last 11 years The Cuban government has cancelled the country’s 12th annual march against homophobia.In a Facebook post, the state-run National Centre for Sex Education (CENESEX) blamed “new tensions in the international and regional context” for the cancellation.Activists have condemned the move…