BEIRUT, Lebanon: This week, more than 300 Syrian refugees headed back home to Syria from leaving two remote northeastern towns in Lebanon, where anti-refugee sentiment has surged in recent months. The international community has been urged by Lebanese officials to either resettle the refugees in other countries or help them return to Syria, and Lebanese political parties have increasingly demanded that Syrian refugees go back to Syria. A country ...
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HELENA, Montana: For the second consecutive year, smoke from Canadian wildfires has forced health warnings across the Upper Midwest and Montana in the U.S....
PASADENA, California: Authorities in Pasadena, California said that a car ran through a red light struck a curb and flew into a power pole...
MOBILE, Alabama: After a shooting at an outdoor party on May Day in south Alabama that left three dead and 18 wounded over the...
PIERRE, South Dakota: Governor Kristi Noem of South Dakota has been banned from entering lands belonging to several tribes, now amounting to nearly 20...
On May 8, 2024, as Israel escalated its brutal assault on Rafah, President Biden announced that he had “paused” a delivery of 1,700 500-pound...
SANTA MONICA, California: Roger Corman, the “King of the Bs” who created low-budget classics such as “Little Shop of Horrors” and “Attack of the...
BOSTON, Massachusetts: The first recipient of a genetically modified pig kidney transplant, Richard “Rick” Slayman, has died nearly two months after he underwent the...
BALTIMORE, Maryland: On Sunday, officials said the controlled demolition of the largest remaining steel span of the collapsed Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore...
WASHINGTON, D.C.: On Saturday, a strong solar storm hit Earth and created colorful displays in the skies across the Northern Hemisphere. There were no...
NEW YORK CITY, New York: In a shock to the Miss Universe Organization, Noelia Voigt and UmaSofia Srivastava, the reigning winners of Miss USA...
TOPEKA, Kansas: Late last week, Kansas Governor Laura Kelly, a Democrat, vetoed proposed restrictions on the foreign ownership of land in the state, which...
WARSAW, Poland, On May 10, tens of thousands of Polish farmers flooded the streets of downtown Warsaw, demonstrating against the European Union’s climate policies...
YANGON, Myanmar – The number of people displaced by fighting in Myanmar has surpassed 3 million, according to the United Nations, marking a “bleak...
PORTLAND, Oregon: Under new rules approved unanimously by the City Council of Portland, Oregon, this week, homeless people who camp on public property and...
PHNOM PENH, Cambodia: Chinese warships have been stationed at Cambodia’s Ream Naval Base for over five months, raising concerns about the permanence of their...
HONG KONG: Overturning an earlier ruling and increasing concerns about the erosion of freedoms in the global financial hub, this week, an appeals court...
IRVING, Texas: To promote inclusion and amid possible bankruptcy and sexual abuse claims, Boy Scouts of America has announced that it will change its...
NEW YORK, New York – Nearly three-quarters of the 193 countries that make up the United Nations voted to support Palestinian statehood on Friday....
SAINT PAUL, Minnesota: This week, a Minnesota Senate ethics panel deferred further action until after the next court date on a complaint against Democratic...