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Thousands of protesters set off from a Glasgow park Saturday to march through the city hosting the U.N. climate conference and demanding bolder global action. Students, activists, and climate-concerned citizens bundled up against the damp cold, linking arms as they moved west from the city’s Kelvingrove Park toward the central …

A crush of rap music fans pushing toward the stage during Travis Scott’s Astroworld festival in Houston killed at least eight people and injured many more as panic rippled through the packed crowd, officials said on Saturday. The disaster unfolded at NRG Park at around 9 p.m. on Friday during …

After a daylong standoff, Democrats set aside divisions between progressives and centrists to pass a $1 trillion package of highway, broadband, and other infrastructure improvements, sending it on to President Joe Biden to sign into law. The 228-to-206 vote late on Friday is a substantial triumph for Biden’s Democrats, who …

Russia on Saturday said it does not expect progress in talks in the coming weeks with the US on issues including visas and the size and functioning of their embassies, Russian news agencies reported. With ties already at post-Cold War lows, Moscow and Washington are in a dispute over the …

The United States said Saturday it has ordered the departure of its non-essential diplomats from Ethiopia, as the war between Tigray rebels and government forces intensifies. “The Department of State ordered the departure of non-emergency US government employees and their family members from Ethiopia” on Friday, the State Department said …

Iran’s Revolutionary Guards said on Wednesday they thwarted an attempt by the United States to detain a tanker carrying the Islamic Republic’s oil in the Sea of Oman. The American officials said that in reality Iranian forces had seized a Vietnamese-flagged oil tanker last month and U.S. naval forces were …

The United States has put an Israeli spyware company on its blacklist following confirmation that the firm’s phone-hacking tools, like Pegasus, had been used by foreign governments to “maliciously target” journalists and officials. The US Commerce Department said in a statement on Wednesday that the Joe Biden administration had added …

Sears is also first woman of color to hold statewide office in Virginia. Republican Winsome Sears will become the first female lieutenant governor and the first woman of color to hold statewide office in Virginia. Sears defeated Democrat Hala Ayala in Tuesday’s election. Sears rocketed out of political obscurity to …

The number of Chinese nuclear warheads could increase to 700 within six years, the US report said, and may top 1,000 by 2030. China is expanding its nuclear force much faster than US officials predicted just a year ago, highlighting a broad and accelerating buildup of military muscle designed to …

The results in states that Biden won easily in 2020 suggest that Democrats’ razor-thin majorities in Congress are highly vulnerable in the 2022 elections. Republicans pushed Democrats out of the Virginia governorship and did unexpectedly well in heavily Democratic New Jersey on Wednesday, signaling trouble for President Joe Biden’s party …

The top US envoy for the Horn of Africa is heading to Ethiopia later this week as Washington and the international community look on with concern over the deteriorating situation. “United States Special Envoy for the Horn of Africa Jeffrey Feltman will travel to Ethiopia November 4 and 5,” a …

Turkish authorities detained 17 people on Wednesday for putting a hood over the head of a visiting US Navy civilian employee in a protest against the United States policy in the Middle East, the Istanbul governor’s office said. The group that carried out the act, the Turkey Youth Union (TGB), …

CIA director William Burns is making a rare visit to Moscow to discuss U.S.-Russia relations, the latest in a series of high-level contacts that show both sides want to keep talking despite mutual distrust and a long list of disputes. A U.S. Embassy spokesperson said Burns was leading a delegation …

At a Georgia state House of Representatives hearing on prison conditions in September, a corrections officer called in to testify, interrupting his shift to tell lawmakers how dire conditions had become. On a “good day,” he told lawmakers, he had maybe six or seven officers to supervise roughly 1,200 people. …

Russia approved a long-term government climate strategy on Monday targeting carbon neutrality by 2060 and rejected US allegations it was not doing enough on climate change as the COP26 conference began. President Vladimir Putin, the leader of the world’s no. 4 greenhouse gas emitter, plans to deliver a recorded message …

Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said on Sunday US President Joe Biden displayed a “positive approach” on the sale of F-16 fighter jets to Turkey. “We talked about the payment of $1.4 billion made before during our discussions. We talked about F-16s and the modernization of the F-16s we currently …

For four years, nothing rallied Democrats like the push to get Donald Trump out of office. Now, they’re not sure what to do without him. Democrats in Virginia are scrambling to stave off disaster in the state’s governor’s race — the most competitive major election since Trump left the White …

The United States and European Union are expected to announce a deal to resolve a long-running trade dispute over U.S. steel and aluminum tariffs this weekend, easing a major transatlantic trade irritant, five people familiar with the agreement said. Two of the sources said the agreement, details of which were …

US President Joe Biden told his French counterpart Emmanuel Macron Friday that his country was “clumsy” in securing a submarine deal with Australia behind France’s back. “We have no better ally than France,” Biden said in the first meeting with Macron since the row erupted last month. “What happened was, …

More than one world leader says humanity’s future, even survival, hangs in the balance when international officials meet in Scotland to try to accelerate efforts to curb climate change. Temperatures, tempers, and hyperbole have all ratcheted up ahead of the United Nations summit. And the risk of failure looms large …