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MADRID (AP) – Erika Oliva spends at least three hours a week standing in line at a soup kitchen.
She spends a couple more at the social worker’s office with her 8-year-old son, who has autism. She waits on the phone to the health center or when she wants to …
PRISTINA, Kosovo (AP) – Kosovo’s President Hashim Thaci, a guerrilla leader during Kosovo’s war for independence from Serbia in the late 1990s, resigned on Thursday and will face charges for war crimes and crimes against humanity at a special court based in The Hague.
Thaci said he was taking the …
WARSAW, Poland (AP) – The Vatican has ordered an investigation into allegations that a now-retired archbishop in Poland was negligent in investigating reports of sex abuse of minors by priests in his Gdansk archdiocese.
The Vatican Embassy in predominantly Roman Catholic Poland said the archbishop of Warsaw had been …
A federal agency tasked with securing U.S. election infrastructure found no evidence any recent votes were altered by foreign actors, a top Department of Homeland Security official said Wednesday.
Christopher Krebs, the head of the DHS Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, or CISA, warned that attempts to meddle in the …
Continued Taliban attacks across Afghanistan “could undermine the agreement” the insurgent group struck with the Trump administration earlier this year that would allow U.S. troops to come home next year, a key Pentagon watchdog reported Thursday.
In its regular quarterly report to Congress released Thursday, the Special Inspector General for …
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) – State officials say Tennessee has easily broken the 2008 record for voter turnout with more than 3 million ballots cast in this year’s November general election.
Secretary of State Tre Hargett’s office says the turnout represents more than 68% of registered voters.
Buoyed by …
Skepticism in the U.S. election could have a negative impact on the global economy, Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov said Thursday.
His comments come amid accusations that Russia has attempted to meddle in the ongoing U.S. election. At the time of publication, Democratic presidential nominee Joseph R. Biden led President Trump …
LANSING, Mich. (AP) – More than 5.5 million people voted in Michigan’s presidential election – the most ever and the highest percentage of voting-age residents to cast a ballot in 60 years.
The number of voters – in a pandemic – smashed the previous record of 5 million in 2008. …
UNITED NATIONS (AP) – The United Nations voted Thursday to hold a summit on the COVID-19 pandemic on Dec. 3-4 to press for action on the global spread of the coronavirus and its “unprecedented” effects on societies, economies, jobs, global trade and travel.
The General Assembly voted 150-0, with the …
AUGUSTA, Maine (AP) – Maine’s top election official said voter participation records were shattered in the election.
Secretary of State Matthew Dunlap estimates that more than 75% of the voting-age population cast ballots, which is a record. And, based on unofficial figures, more than 800,000 ballots were cast, also a …