When Carolina’s captors arrived at dawn to pull her out of the stash house in the Mexican border city of Reynosa in late May, she thought they were going to force her to call her family in Venezuela again to beg them to pay $2,000 ransom. Instead, one of the men shoved her onto a…
Presidential rivals Donald Trump and Ron DeSantis will court Republicans on Friday in California, a glittering prize in the race for the party’s 2024 nomination and home to many wealthy donors. Trump, the former president and runaway frontrunner to be the party’s nominee in the November 2024 general election, and Florida Governor DeSantis are speaking…
The number of people crossing the perilous Darien Gap linking Panama and Colombia has hit a record high of 400,000 in the year to September, official data showed, as migration to the United States intensified despite efforts to curb the flow. More than half of those migrants were children and babies, Panama’s security ministry said…
Donald Trump’s political operation has helped pay the legal expenses of more than a dozen people contacted by prosecutors investigating the former president, tying up millions of dollars that otherwise could be used for his 2024 White House bid. Reuters has identified 13 potential witnesses or co-defendants who were represented by law firms that received…
Dianne Feinstein, a long-serving Democratic U.S. senator from California and gun control advocate who spearheaded the first federal assault weapons ban and documented the CIA’s torture of foreign terrorism suspects, has died at 90, a source familiar with the news said on Friday. Feinstein’s office did not immediately respond to a request for comment on…
The U.S. federal government was two days from a partial shutdown on Friday, as a handful of hardline House Republicans refused to support a bipartisan stopgap spending bill meant to give lawmakers more time to negotiate a full-year deal. The National Park Service will close, the Securities and Exchange Commission will suspend most of its…
Irish actor known for playing Albus Dumbledore died after becoming ill with pneumonia, family statement says. Michael Gambon, who played the wise professor Albus Dumbledore in the Harry Potter movie franchise, has died at age 82. Gambon began acting on stage in the early 1960s and later moved into TV and film. Notable film roles include…
State Department says Beijing spending billions to spread disinformation and shape opinion in favour of China and the communist party. China is spending billions of dollars a year to shape perceptions of China through influence, censorship and disinformation in a large-scale campaign that could threaten global freedoms, the United States has said. “Beijing has invested…
The deaths come as former colonial power France prepares to withdraw a counterinsurgency force stationed in the country. Seven soldiers have been killed in Niger’s southwest in an attack by suspected rebels, and five others died in a traffic accident while trying to respond to the assault. The deaths on Thursday come as former colonial…
Border opened after weeks of demonstrations by Palestinian workers through an informal agreement Qatar helped mediate, Gaza envoy says. Qatar says it successfully mediated an agreement between Israel and officials in the Gaza Strip to reopen crossing points to the besieged territory after Palestinians were prevented from working and violence broke out. The crossings were…
