Mayorkas is driven by his own understanding of the immigrant experience. Many in GOP want him gone
WASHINGTON (AP) — To his supporters, is a thoughtful, driven secretary — a “Boy Scout” — who brings a prosecutor’s tenacity and his personal understanding of the immigrant experience in America to running his . To his detractors, he personifies everything that has gone wrong at the U.S.-Mexico border and is responsible for allowing hundreds of thousands of migrants into the United States illegally in a .
, often referred to as Ali, is the first Latino and the first immigrant to lead the Department
Pedestrian in life-threatening condition after being hit by vehicle in North York
Prince Vittorio Emanuele of Savoy, son of Italy’s last king, dies aged 86
ROME (AP) — Prince Vittorio Emanuele of Savoy, the son of Italy’s last king, Umberto II, has died at the age of 86.
The prince died on Saturday in Geneva, the Savoy Royal House said in a statement. He had lived in Switzerland since the family were exiled from Italy when he was 9 years old.
Vittorio Emanuele was born on February 12, 1937, in Naples to Umberto, Prince of Piedmont, who would later briefly become Umberto II, and
The EU is providing Ukraine with $54 billion. How will the money be spent?
EU leaders on Thursday to provide Ukraine with 50 billion euros ($54 million) to shore up its war-ravaged economy after Hungary dropped weeks of threats to veto the measure.
The aid package — about two-thirds loans and one-third grants to be paid out over a four-year period — is not intended to fund arms and ammunition, which fall under a separate EU plan. Instead, it aims to stabilize Ukraine’s economy after nearly two years of fighting, pay for rebuilding,
Kenya’s president blames corruption and incompetence for huge fireball that hurt hundreds in Nairobi
NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Kenya’s president says corruption and officials’ incompetence allowed a liquid petroleum plant to operate in one of Nairobi’s most crowded residential neighborhoods, where its killed three people and injured more than 280 others.
President William Ruto said the officials who gave licenses to the plant must be dismissed and prosecuted. Police are also looking for the site’s owners.
At least 24 people were critically injured when the huge fireball erupted from the gas depot late Thursday and spread rapidly
Indonesians flock to presidential campaign rallies as criticism against the government mounts
JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) — Tens of thousands of Indonesians flocked to on Saturday to air their concerns over the state of democracy in the country.
President Joko Widodo is facing mounting criticism over his lack of neutrality after he threw his support behind frontrunner Prabowo Subianto, who has picked
Widodo has distanced himself from the governing Indonesian Democratic Party of Struggle, under whose banner he ran in 2014 and 2019.
The party’s presidential candidate, Ganjar Pranowo, the former governor of Central Java province
Day-long pothole repair blitz underway in Toronto as above-average temperatures settle in
For the first time, an Irish nationalist is set to lead Northern Ireland’s government
LONDON (AP) — An Irish nationalist made history Saturday by becoming Northern Ireland’s first minister as the government returned to work after a two-year boycott by unionists.
Sinn Fein Vice President Michelle O’Neill was named first minister in the government that under the terms of the 1998 shares power equally between Northern Ireland’s two main communities — British unionists who want to stay in the U.K., and Irish nationalists who seek to unite with Ireland.
Northern Ireland was established as a
Can Trump be on the ballot? It’s the Supreme Court’s biggest election test since Bush v. Gore
WASHINGTON (AP) — with the potential to disrupt is putting the uncomfortably at the center of the .
In arguments Thursday, the justices will, for the first time, wrestle with a that was adopted after the Civil War to prevent former officeholders who “engaged in insurrection” from reclaiming power.
is the court’s most direct involvement in a presidential election since , a decision delivered a quarter-century ago that effectively delivered the 2000 election to Republican George W. Bush. It comes to a court
As investors pile into psychedelics, idealism gives way to pharma economics
Money is pouring into the fledgling industry, with dozens of startup companies vying to be among the first to sell mind-expanding drugs for , and other mental health conditions.
While psychedelics are still illegal under federal law, companies are jostling to try and patent key ingredients found in magic mushrooms, ayahuasca and other substances that have been used underground for decades or — in some cases — for millennia by indigenous cultures.
Wall Street’s sudden exuberance for hallucinogens has rankled longtime , who dreamed of making low-cost psychedelics widely