Young voters report feeling an increasing generational divide with older voters and elected officials, and significant majorities of young people in both parties are concerned about the country’s moral direction, according to new data from Harvard’s Institute of Politics provided exclusively to TIME. Among young Democrats, 66% said they were concerned about the moral direction…
(KIEV, Ukraine) — With nearly all the votes counted in Ukraine, TV star Volodymyr Zelenskiy is projected to win the country’s presidential runoff vote in a landslide. The Central Election Commission says Monday that Zelenskiy has won 73% of the vote while the incumbent President Petro Poroshenko got just 24% support with more than 96%…
(COLOMBO, Sri Lanka) — The coordinated Easter Sunday bombings that ripped through Sri Lankan churches and luxury hotels, killing more than 200 people, were carried out by seven suicide bombers from a domestic militant group named National Thowfeek Jamaath, a government official said Monday. All of the bombers were Sri Lankan citizens, but authorities suspect…
Hundreds of people have been killed and hundreds more wounded in a series of blasts that rocked Sri Lanka on Easter Sunday, the deadliest violence to hit the South Asian country since the civil war ended a decade ago. The explosions struck in Colombo, the capital, Negombo, a town north of the capital, and in…
Image copyright Getty/Mark Wilson Image caption Herman Cain made a bid for the Republican presidential nomination in 2012 Former Republican presidential hopeful Herman Cain withdrew his name for a seat on the Federal Reserve Board, US President Donald Trump has tweeted.The president said he would respect the former pizza chain executive’s wishes and not pursue…
Media playback is unsupported on your device Media captionGail Jardine: “I can walk, I can turn… it’s really helped me” A treatment that has restored the movement of patients with chronic Parkinson’s disease has been developed by Canadian researchers. Previously housebound patients are now able to walk more freely as a result of electrical stimulation…
Image copyright AFP Image caption Children kicked the effigy and beat it with big sticks The World Jewish Congress (WJC) has voiced outrage over a Polish town’s ritual beating of a Judas effigy which looks like a caricature Orthodox Jew.The Good Friday ritual in Pruchnik, south-eastern Poland, was filmed and posted by a Polish news…
Image copyright EPA Image caption Rescuers are searching for trapped people at a building in Pampanga province At least eight people have been killed after a powerful earthquake struck the main Philippines island of Luzon, officials say.The magnitude 6.1 earthquake hit at 17:11 local time (09:11 GMT) on Monday, the Philippines Institute of Volcanology and…
Image caption The Twelve Apostles are a popular attraction in the rugged Port Campbell National Park, Victoria A father and son who were volunteer lifesavers have drowned while trying to rescue a tourist swept out to sea off the Australian state of Victoria.The boat carrying Ross Powell, 71, and his son Andrew, 32, overturned as…