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In New Zealand’s Parliament, a battered cookie tin decides which new laws get debated
Under the scrutiny of a black-robed official and before a hushed audience, a decorative cookie tin rattles like a bingo drum.
‘Investment, not tariffs,’ says Ishiba after telephone talks with Trump before 3rd round of talks
Japan’s Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba said Friday that he held telephone talks with U.S. President Donald Trump and agreed to ...
Trump relishes uttering the outlandish. Here’s where some of his most showstopping comments stand
It may start as a casual aside, a wee-hours social post or a much-hyped announcement. Whatever the delivery mechanism, ...
Feted by school children, tossing out a first pitch: Former Israeli hostage grapples with celebrity
Three months after his release from Hamas captivity, Omer Shem Tov stood on the pitcher’s mound at a Boston Red Sox game.
Whitecaps have best home record in baseball
The Whitecaps finished their game against the Loons and won 2-1. Then they resumed their regularly-scheduled game and win 7-1 ...
Indigenous Amazon tribe says New York Times story led to its members being smeared as porn addicts
An Indigenous tribe from the Brazilian Amazon has sued The New York Times, saying the newspaper’s reporting on the tribe’s ...
Louisiana stifles community air monitoring with threat of million-dollar fines, federal lawsuit says
On days of heavy pollution in Sulphur, a southwest Louisiana town surrounded by more than 16 industrial plants, Cynthia ...
Scarlett Johansson debuts as a director in Cannes with a comic tale of grief and empathy
Scarlett Johansson’s directorial debut, “Eleanor the Great,” stars June Squibb as a 94-year-old woman who, out of grief and ...
Iran and the US holding a fifth round of nuclear negotiations in Rome with enrichment a key issue
Iran and the United States prepared for a fifth round of negotiations over Tehran’s rapidly advancing nuclear program Friday in Rome, with enrichment ...
A music talent agency says 3 employees died on a plane that crashed into a San Diego neighborhood
The music agency Sound Talent Group said Thursday that three of its employees, including co-founder Dave Shapiro, died on the ...
Work requirements could transform Medicaid and food aid under US budget bill
The U.S. social safety net would be jolted if the budget bill backed by President Donald Trump and passed Thursday by the ...
A Paris court will deliver the verdict in Kim Kardashian jewelry heist trial
A decade after robbers stormed Kim Kardashian’s luxury residence and tied her up at gunpoint, a Paris court is set Friday to decide the verdict in one of the most audacious ...