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Russian President Vladimir Putin announced Thursday that all EU purchases of Russian gas must be made in roubles starting April 1, a demand immediately rejected by French and German officials who said they were preparing for a possible halt in.. .read more .

Skippy Foods announced Thursday it is recalling thousands of pounds of peanut butter after stainless steel fragments were suspected in some of the packages.  Read more.

The White House on Thursday announced plans for the largest-ever release of oil from the United States’ strategic reserves.  Read more.

Howard Ayers, a member of the Nation of Islam, grew up in Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn. In 1993 he was sentenced to 25-years-to-life in prison. Between 1968 and 1993 the prison population of the United States grew by 400%. Lawyer Thomas B. Marvell attributes this increase to legislators, who in response to... read more.

Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Thursday that he had signed a decree saying foreign buyers must pay in roubles for Russian gas from April 1, and contracts would... read more .

As Joe Biden pushes to ‘fund the police’, data from Mapping Police Violence shows high rates of deaths at the hands of law enforcement persist... read more .

Two people were killed after a gunman opened fire in a McDonald’s restaurant in the northern Dutch city of Zwolle, according to police and... read more .

John Bolton, the former national security adviser, has revealed that he heard Donald Trump use the term “burner phones” several times and that they discussed how the disposable devices were... read more .

Eight Russian oligarchs on the UK sanctions list over their links to Vladimir Putin were granted “golden visas” to live in Britain.  Read more.  

California’s reparations taskforce has recommended compensating the descendants of enslaved and free Black people who were in the US in the 19th century, bringing the state one step closer to becoming the... read more .

Mexico’s armed forces knew that 43 student teachers who disappeared in 2014 were being kidnapped by criminals, then hid evidence that could have... read more.

Universal free meals at schools are slated to end this summer, after a provision to extend temporary pandemic programs was not included in a major... read more .

Nineteen people were killed when gunmen burst into a clandestine cockfight in western Mexico, prosecutors in the western state of... read more .

Chris Frantz and Tina Weymouth, the husband and wife musicians who were core members of Talking Heads and Tom Tom Club, have survived a serious... read more .

A driver crashed a car into a homeless encampment in Salem, Oregon, early on Sunday morning, killing four people and injuring three including the... read more .

International celebrities have reacted with shock, condemnation, and in some cases, praise, after actor Will Smith walked on stage and slapped comedian Chris Rock during the Oscars in Los Angeles.  Read more .

El Salvadoran lawmakers Sunday declared a state of emergency, the president of the Legislative Assembly said, curtailing civil liberties and expanding police power as the country faces a wave of... read more.

In an exclusive broadcast interview, we speak with leading Afro-Colombian environmental activist Francia Márquez Mina, who has just been picked by Colombian presidential front-runner Gustavo Petro to be his running mate.  Read more.

A significant percentage of parents whose children wore masks in school during the last year believe it harmed their education, social interactions and... read more .

 The former US Secretary of State, who once publicly admitted that she thinks the deaths of half a million Iraqi children were ‘worth it’, was no force for ‘democracy and human rights’.  Read more.

Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas was released from the hospital Friday morning following a weeklong stay related to an... read more.

New Yorkers will soon be able to request an iconic yellow cab on the Uber app through a deal made public Thursday.  R Ead more.

A fully paralysed man suffering from amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) can now communicate with his family after receiving microchip implants in... read more.

Tesla CEO Elon Musk was in Germany on Tuesday to mark the opening of the company's new factory near Berlin, its first in Europe.  Read more.

MacKenzie Scott, who promised in 2019 that she would give away her fortune “until the safe is empty,” has donated $436 million to Habitat for Humanity International and... read more .

Gov. Eric Holcomb of Indiana vetoed a bill on Monday that would have banned transgender girls from competing in school-sanctioned girls’ sports, taking a sharply different approach to the... read more .

Stacey Abrams has filed a lawsuit seeking to immediately begin fundraising for her campaign for governor under a state law that prevents her gubernatorial leadership committee from... read more .

Two Michigan brothers who were wrongfully convicted in the murder of a family friend walked free Tuesday and were reunited with their family after... read more .

Universities in the U.S. and U.K. on Monday faced a demand from over 500 leading climate experts and academics to reject any environmental or energy... read more .

Even though only a small percentage of Walt Disney Co workers participated in a walkout Tuesday, organizers felt they had won a moral victory with the company issuing a statement denouncing the... read more.

Jamaican activists, as well as prominent professors, politicians and other leaders, have rejected a visit by the duke and duchess of Cambridge, calling on the United Kingdom to apologise and...r ead more .

The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge have been accused of benefiting from the “blood, tears and sweat” of slaves as they arrived in Jamaica to be met by a protest calling for... read more .

It’s important now, in light of both world events and the way the Republican party has been captured by a small group of rightwing billionaires and white supremacists, to introduce Americans to... read more .

Rejecting pressure to terminate the program in its entirety, the Biden administration on Thursday announced it is redesigning a Trump-era experiment that physicians and progressive lawmakers have criticized as... read more.

Sen. Bernie Sanders on Sunday said he intends to reintroduce Medicare for All legislation in the U.S. Senate in the coming days as the Biden administration moves ahead with a Medicare privatization scheme and millions of Americans remain at... read more.

African leaders need to acknowledge Russian expansionism is as immoral and harmful as Western colonialism. Read more.

A South Carolina sheriff defended police officers who shot and killed a Black man on Saturday after he refused their orders to drop a wooden... read more .

A China Eastern Airlines passenger plane carrying 132 people has crashed in southern China, shortly after losing contact with air traffic control and... read more .

Three people were wounded in a shooting on a popular Miami Beach street crowded with spring breakers early Sunday, police said.  Read more .

The cannabis industry is pushing lawmakers to get a marijuana reform bill to President Biden ’s desk before the November midterms, fearing that a Republican takeover of Congress could doom its chances.  Read more .  

Mexico’s President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador will inaugurate a new airport serving Mexico City, in a hallmark move more than three years after he scrapped a separate partly built... read more .

China has fully militarized at least three of several islands it built in the disputed South China Sea, arming them with anti-ship and anti-aircraft missile systems, laser and jamming equipment and fighter jets in an... read more .

Germany and Qatar have reached a long-term energy partnership, a German official has said, as Europe’s biggest economy seeks to become less dependent on... read more .

One person was killed and 24 wounded when gunfire erupted during a car show that is part of an annual community event in a small... read more .  

Independent testing has found hundreds of popular personal care items in the US to be contaminated with benzene, a highly carcinogenic chemical, prompting several big brands to... read more .

The Georgia gubernatorial candidate and voting rights campaigner Stacey Abrams has been made president – of United Earth.  Read more.

T he landscapes in Davide Monteleone’s images of China’s belt and road initiative are very familiar to me. We can see desert, uninhabited wasteland and views along the Yangtze River and in north-west China . There are also photographs showing the... read more.

T he landscapes in Davide Monteleone’s images of China’s belt and road initiative are very familiar to me. We can see desert, uninhabited wasteland and views along the Yangtze River and in north-west China . There are also photographs showing the... read more .

A Kansas man who spent 23 years in prison for a double murder he did not commit is seeking $93m in damages from the county where he was... read more .

A former Arkansas deputy was convicted Friday of negligent homicide but acquitted of the more serious offense of manslaughter in the fatal shooting of a white teenager whose death had drawn the attention of national civil rights leaders and activists.  Read more.

A former Lonoke County sheriff’s deputy who was convicted of negligent homicide Friday morning in the fatal shooting of teen Hunter Brittain has been sentenced to one year in jail and ordered to... read more .

As the U.S. and U.K. push for Saudi Arabia to increase oil production to offset a rise in global energy prices amid sanctions on Russia, the kingdom on Saturday announced it had executed 81 people — the country’s largest mass execution in decades. Sarah Leah Whitson, executive director of Democracy for the Arab World Now, says the muted criticism of Saudi abuses reveals a... read more .

A Chinese aircraft carrier on Thursday made a trip through the Taiwan Strait just hours ahead of President Biden 's slated call with Chinese... read more .

India’s state-run oil company purchased 3 million barrels of Russian crude this week as numerous other nations bar such imports due to Moscow's invasion of... read more .

The only all-Black, all-female second world war battalion will be awarded the congressional gold medal after Joe Biden signed a bipartisan bill on Monday to honor the... read more .

Nine people are dead after a vehicle collision involving the University of the Southwest's men's and women's golf teams occurred in Texas.  Read more.

The International Court of Justice has ordered Russia to stop hostilities in Ukraine, granting a... read more .

The Senate on Tuesday approved a proposal to make daylight saving time permanent, which if passed in the House and signed by President Biden , would mean Americans would never again have to set their clocks back an... read more .

Puerto Rico’s government has formally exited bankruptcy, completing the largest public debt restructuring in United States history after announcing nearly seven years ago that... read more .

 Nobel economics prize laureate Joseph Stiglitz said Tuesday that the speed and intensity of economic and financial sanctions against Russia would make them efficient but... read more .

Metropolitan Police in Washington, DC have arrested a man wanted in connection with the shootings of homeless men in the United States capital and New York City... read more .

Britain’s top court on Monday refused WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange permission to appeal against a decision to extradite him to the U.S. to face spying charges.  Read more.

Police in New York were on Monday still looking for a suspect who stabbed two employees at the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) on Saturday, after being denied entry due to a revoked membership.  Read more .

Virginia “Ginni” Thomas, wife of the supreme court justice Clarence Thomas, has admitted attending a rally which preceded the January 6 attack on the... read more .

A group of citizens from Wisconsin — as well as a brewing company in the state — are suing to disqualify three Republican candidates for office, arguing that they played a role in trying to overturn the 2020 presidential election.. .read more.

Owning and operating a car is getting more expensive in the US – but the largely ineffective public transport means many have... read more .

Millions of people across China endured lockdowns on Sunday as virus cases doubled to nearly 3,400 and anxiety mounted over the resilience of the country's 'zero-Covid' approach in the face of... read more .

A rift between Walt Disney Co. and Florida’s Republican leaders escalated on Friday when the California-based entertainment giant pledged to stop donating to political campaigns in the... read more .

The government of Saudi Arabia has executed 81 people—including seven Yemenis and a Syrian national—over the past 24 hours in what is believed to be the largest mass execution in the kingdom's history.   Read more .

What role did the United States play in creating conditions for Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, and what will it take to end the war? The U.S. invasion of Iraq, which saw no repercussions for the Bush administration despite breaching international humanitarian law, coupled with Cold War-era policies and NATO’s eastward expansion, incited Putin’s aggressions... read more .

On the heels of fresh data showing that the U.S. inflation rate jumped to a new 40-year high last month, a new survey found that more than 80% of American voters believe costs are rising in part... read more .

The Walt Disney Company is suspending political donations in Florida after its chief executive suffered huge blowback for not using the company’s vast influence in the state to try to quash a Republican bill that would stop... read more .

 A camel killed two men after escaping a petting zoo in Tennessee, a county sheriff said. Read more.

As of this week, Tinder users will be able to run criminal background checks on their potential dates. The feature – launched in partnership with Garbo, a background check provider that aims to make... read more .

Chelsea Football Club owner Roman Abramovich has been hit with an assets freeze and travel ban as part of new UK government sanctions targeting... read more .

The downtown Nashville, Tennessee, record store that was opened by Opry legend Ernest Tubb in 1947 and has been a landmark in country music for... read more .

Family members of Emmett Till joined supporters Friday in asking that the federal investigation into the teen’s 1955 lynching be reopened.  Read more .  

The government funding bill sent to President Biden includes a surge in funding to the agency that oversees the nation’s cybersecurity infrastructure and includes language that requires companies in... read more .

Yale University has begun removing the Sackler name from its campus, several years after announcing it would no longer accept donations from the... read more .

When Sammy Davis, Jr. converted to Judaism in 1960, it was big news. He was only the latest celebrity to do so—Marilyn Monroe had converted in 1956 to marry Arthur Miller, and Elizabeth Taylor had converted in 1959 to marry...r ead more .

Dubbed the “Stop WOKE Act,” which stands for wrongs to our kids and employees, it bans the teaching of critical race theory, which addresses systemic racism in the U.S., alleging it widens racial divisions.  Read more .  

The Bolivian soldier who pulled the trigger to execute famed revolutionary guerrilla Ernesto “Che” Guevara has died at the age of 80.  Read more.

In an undated statement signed by “the LGBTQIA+ employees of Pixar and their allies,” employees say a recent company-wide email sent by Disney chief executive Bob Chapek addressing concerns raised by... read more.

In January 2022, Julian Fellowes’s new series, The Gilded Age premiered on HBO. While the verdict’s out whether the show will live up to its promise as an American answer to Downton Abbey , so far, it has delivered on the decadence characteristic of its titular era.  Read more.

Russia has enough buyers for its oil and gas even as Western nations and their allies impose sanctions in response to the invasion of Ukraine, according to a top... read more .

The Russian invasion of Ukraine has triggered Europe’s biggest refugee crisis in decades, with more than 2 million Ukrainians fleeing their country within two weeks.  Read more.

Sheryl Sandberg, the chief operating officer (COO) of Meta, the parent company of Facebook and Instagram, said Tuesday that she believes that “no two countries run by women would ever go to war,”  when speaking with... read more .

President Biden announced Tuesday that the U.S. will ban Russian oil, natural gas and coal imports as part of his administration’s response... read more .

The number of hate and anti-government extremist groups declined for the third year in a row in 2021, but their ideologies have gained traction and entered the mainstream, according to... read more .

At the Conservative Political Action Conference in Florida speculation of a 2024 presidential bid by former President Donald Trump loomed large. But fanfare about his Truth Social app that had launched earlier... read more .

When the Soviet Union's first McDonald's opened on January 31, 1990, it drew huge crowds and became a powerful symbol of an isolated country opening up to the West.  Read more .

Brazil’s far-right President Jair Bolsonaro has pushed for a law that would allow mining on Indigenous reservations, seizing on global fertiliser shortages caused by... read more .

In February 2020, the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace produced a report on “Who and What Was and Wasn’t at the Munich Security Conference” – an annual event attended by political, military, and business leaders and marketed on Twitter as... read more .

President Bidens is reportedly set to sign an executive order on cryptocurrency this week that will direct several federal agencies to investigate and develop policies and... read more .  

Gymnastics’ governing body has condemned the “shocking behaviour” of the Russian gymnast Ivan Kuliak, who now faces a lengthy ban for wearing a symbol in support of the invasion of Ukraine on the... read more.

Two young French urban climbers on Monday scaled the tallest building in Paris with no ropes or specialist equipment in an act of solidarity with Ukraine and the courage of its people in the face of the Russian invasion.  Read more.

Serena Williams has accused tennis authorities of double standards, claiming she would “probably be in jail” if she behaved like Alexander Zverev, who was thrown out of an ATP event after smashing his racket against the... read more . 

Sherri Papini seemed to be just another small-town northern California mom, when, a little over five years ago, she disappeared in the woods. By her own account, she was abducted, chained to a pole for three weeks, half-starved, beaten, branded and burned and then... read more .

Two weeks after a nationwide recall of infant formula tied to five hospitalizations and two deaths, the FDA is refusing to answer questions about why it took months to take action, while parents, lawmakers and advocates ratchet up pressure on the agency.  Read more.

French President Emmanuel Macron on Thursday announced he would run for a second term in the April French presidential election, seeking a mandate to steer the eurozone's second-largest economy through the... read more .

T ech workers for the New York Times have voted overwhelmingly to form a union, the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) determined on... read more .

 A Bel Air mega mansion marketed as “America’s most expensive residence” sold in an bankruptcy auction on Thursday with a winning bid of $126m, a fraction of its reported original... read more .

While President Biden has ruled out sending troops into Ukraine, the U.S. is directly aiding Ukraine militarily and has imposed unprecedented sanctions on Russia amounting to what some have called “economic warfare.” We look at Biden’s response with Senator Bernie Sanders’s foreign policy adviser Matt Duss, who is also Ukrainian American. He says the U.S. should continue to exhaust all diplomatic avenues in order to stop violence in Ukraine. Duss also details the U.S. role... read more .

Republicans have long argued that Donald Trump’s gains in majority-Hispanic South Texas were not a one-time deal and, instead, the beginning of a larger trend.  Read more .

lorida’s Republican-controlled Senate on Thursday night approved the strictest abortion ban in the state’s history, ending a monthslong fight over reproductive rights that pitted GOP lawmakers against... read more .

Mayor Eric Adams will remove the mask mandate for public schools and waive the proof of vaccination requirement for restaurants and entertainment venues starting Monday, saying the city is finally moving past... read more .

Dear President Biden, What a difference 300 days makes. On April 28, 2021, you marked your first 100 days in office by delivering a speech to a joint session of Congress. Read more .  

The United Nations reports more than 800,000 people have fled Ukraine since Russia attacked last week, but many foreign nationals trying to escape have described racist discrimination and abuse, saying they were turned away from buses and at the border, while Ukrainians were welcomed with open arms. We speak with one of the African students who documented their experiences... read more .

Sydney and the Illawarra region of New South Wales have avoided the worst effects of the devastating east coast low that instead eased and shifted west... read more .  

 W hile on air, CBS News senior foreign correspondent Charlie D’Agata stated last week that Ukraine “isn’t a place, with all due respect, like Iraq or Afghanistan, that has seen conflict raging for decades. This is a relatively civilized, relatively... read more .

 I n 2014, the Putin regime invaded Ukraine’s Crimea. In 2016, the same regime invaded the United States. The former took place as a conventional military operation; the latter was a spectacular case of cyberwarfare , including disinformation that it was happening at all and promulgation of a lot of talking points still devoutly repeated by many.  Read more.

Joe Manchin is once again setting the agenda for Democrats and says he’s willing to make a deal. They’re listening — cautiously.  Read more .