by Delphia | Jan 4, 2023 | World
Los Angeles County will spend $20 million to purchase a prime beachfront property from the heirs of an African-American couple who were given the land back a century after local officials unjustly stripped it from them. The Bruce family has informed county officials...
by Delphia | Jan 4, 2023 | World
For much of the last 16 years, Republican Jim Jordan’s combative, in-your-face style of politics made the former college wrestler a constant source of trouble for his party’s leadership in the U.S. House of Representatives. Now his party is deciding...
by Delphia | Jan 4, 2023 | World
President Joe Biden and Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell will make a rare joint appearance on Wednesday at a bridge in Kentucky in a display of bipartisanship that offers a guide to how the White House hopes to govern in months to come. As hardline Republicans...
by Delphia | Jan 4, 2023 | World
Data from China shows no new coronavirus variant has been found there, but it also under-represents how many people have died in the country’s rapidly spreading outbreak, World Health Organization officials said on Wednesday. Global unease has grown about the...
by Delphia | Jan 4, 2023 | World
The U.S. House of Representatives was on track on Wednesday to reject Republican Kevin McCarthy’s bid to lead the chamber for a fourth time as a small group of holdouts in the party defied former President Donald Trump’s call for unity. McCarthy, a...
by Delphia | Jan 4, 2023 | World
U.S. companies, from tech majors to consumer firms, are bracing for a potential economic downturn by shrinking their employee base to streamline operations. Job cuts announced by U.S.-based employers jumped 13% to 33,843 in October last year, the highest since...
by Delphia | Jan 4, 2023 | World
A little-known patriotic group that supports the widows of Russian soldiers has called on President Vladimir Putin to order a large-scale mobilization of millions of men and to close the borders to ensure victory in Ukraine. Putin, Russia’s 70-year-old paramount...
by Delphia | Jan 4, 2023 | World
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) will allow retail pharmacies to offer abortion pills in the United States for the first time, the agency said on Tuesday, even as more states seek to ban medication abortion. The regulatory change will potentially expand...
by Delphia | Jan 4, 2023 | World
A former Colorado funeral home owner was sentenced to 20 years in federal prison on Tuesday for defrauding relatives of the dead by dissecting 560 corpses and selling body parts without permission. Megan Hess, 46, pleaded guilty to fraud in July. She operated a...
by Delphia | Jan 4, 2023 | World
Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said Russia was planning to call up more troops for a major new offensive, even as Moscow was facing some of its biggest internal criticism of the war over a strike that killed scores of fresh conscripts. Kyiv has been...
