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Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico is fighting for life after assassination attempt
Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico was being treated for “life-threatening” injuries after being shot in what the nation’s Interior Ministry described as an assassination attempt.
Fico, 59, was attacked after a government meeting in the town of Handlova some 165 kilometers (100 miles) northeast of the capital Bratislava. The premier was ...Read more
Vietnamese groups furious over 'Jane Fonda Day' in LA County
LOS ANGELES — Citing her advocacy for social justice and environmental sustainability, Los Angeles County leaders last month declared April 30 as "Jane Fonda Day."
The backlash was immediate.
Within days, politicians and members of the Vietnamese American community sharply criticized the decision to honor the actress on the date known in the...Read more
US warns Israel of power vacuum in Gaza and wants post-war plan
The U.S. warned Israel it risks creating a power vacuum across swaths of Gaza and urged the country’s leaders to focus more on post-war planning for the Palestinian territory.
“We can’t have anarchy and a vacuum that’s likely to be filled by chaos,” U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken told reporters on Wednesday during a trip to ...Read more
US says rushing weapons to Ukraine amid fighting in Kharkiv
Secretary of State Antony Blinken said the U.S. is accelerating arms supplies to Ukraine as President Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s military confronts a Russian assault on the nation’s northeast.
Kremlin troops are attempting to push deeper into the Kharkiv region, taking control of some villages close to the border, after weeks of intensified air...Read more
Parkland massacre deputy, found not guilty of criminal wrongdoing, demands BSO pay his legal fees
FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — Former Broward Sheriff’s Deputy Scot Peterson, the school resource officer on duty during the massacre of 17 students and staff at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, was in court Tuesday asking a Broward judge to force the Broward Sheriff’s Office to pay the legal fees connected to his 2023 negligence trial.
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Deadly overdoses fell in US for first time in five years, new estimates show
Deaths from drug overdoses fell last year in the United States as fewer people lost their lives to fentanyl and other opioids, marking the first time the death toll had dropped in five years, according to newly released estimates from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Federal officials said the numbers show a 3% decline in the ...Read more
Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico is fighting for life after assassination attempt
Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico was rushed to a hospital after being shot in what the nation’s Interior Ministry described as an assassination attempt.
Fico, 59, was attacked after convening a government meeting in the town of Handlova some 165 kilometers (100 miles) northeast of the capital Bratislava. The premier is being treated for a �...Read more
US says rushing ammunition to Ukraine amid fighting in northeast
Secretary of State Antony Blinken said the U.S. is accelerating arms supplies to Ukraine as President Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s military confronts a Russian assault on the nation’s northeast.
Kremlin troops are attempting to push deeper into the Kharkiv region, taking control of some villages close to the border, after weeks of intensified air...Read more
Slovakia PM Robert Fico shot in assassination attempt
Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico was rushed to a local hospital after being shot in what the nation’s Interior Ministry described as an assassination attempt.
Fico was attacked after convening a government meeting in the town of Handlova. The extent of his injuries wasn’t immediately clear, according to local media reports. The alleged ...Read more
Michigan lawyer seeks ruling on lobbyist-gifted tickets after News investigation
LANSING, Mich. — Bob LaBrant, the former general counsel for the Michigan Chamber of Commerce, has asked Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson's office to rule on whether the system lobbyists have used to secretly provide event tickets to lawmakers is legal.
LaBrant's request on Tuesday came a day after The Detroit News released the findings of ...Read more
New law makes to-go, delivery alcohol permanent in Colorado
DENVER — Colorado restaurants can continue delivering and selling to-go alcohol under a new law passed by the legislature this year, enshrining a pandemic-era lifeline into the state’s dining culture.
Gov. Jared Polis originally — and temporarily — approved delivery and to-go alcohol via an executive order after the pandemic began four ...Read more
Colorado Gov. Polis signs cuts to income, sales and property taxes into law as ballot fight looms
DENVER — Colorado Gov. Jared Polis signed several tax-related bills into law Tuesday, including two that deliver what officials are touting as historic cuts to taxes of different kinds.
One reduces income and sales taxes. Senate Bill 228 cuts the state’s income rate by up to 0.15% in years when state revenue handily exceeds the cap set by ...Read more
Power outages and an urgent warning: NTSB details Dali crew's scramble before Key Bridge collapse
BALTIMORE — Two electrical blackouts on the Dali freighter sent members of its crew and the pilots on board scrambling to control the vessel as it approached the Francis Scott Key Bridge in the early morning hours of March 26.
Their efforts — which would prove unsuccessful — are laid out in detail in a preliminary report released Tuesday ...Read more
Zelenskyy cancels trips abroad as Russia makes ground in Ukraine
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy canceled all of his foreign trips over the coming days as his commander in chief visited Kharkiv to personally oversee the situation on the front after Russia launched a large-scale assault on the region for the first time since 2022.
Additional forces have been sent to the northeastern region, Zelenskyy�...Read more
South Africa's ANC seen avoiding populist partners post election
South Africa’s ruling African National Congress is likely to win 44.8% of the vote in this month’s national election and will be loath to invite populist rivals into a governing coalition, according to research group Krutham.
The predicted vote outcome, based on an analysis of opinion polls and municipal byelection results as well as ...Read more
In effort to 'regain public trust,' LA County announces 66 probation officers put on leave
LOS ANGELES — The Los Angeles County Probation Department has announced that 66 officers have been put on administrative leave this year in a series of cases that include allegations of sexual misconduct and the use of excessive force.
The announcement was billed as an effort to "regain public trust" in an agency roiled by scandal in recent ...Read more
Woman makes history with shark-infested swim to remote California island
Amy Appelhans Gubser was a swimmer in college, but when she graduated more than three decades ago, she hung up her cap and goggles and went about the business of working as a nurse and raising two children.
She didn't swim seriously again until about 10 years ago, when a friend coaxed her into the ocean — with Gubser resisting all the way.
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Florence Nightingale overcame the limits set on proper Victorian women – and brought modern science and statistics to nursing
For nearly 200 years, Florence Nightingale’s name has been synonymous with gentle compassion and mercy.
In the mid-19th century, Nightingale became perhaps the most celebrated woman of her era – second only to Queen Victoria – for instituting sanitation practices that sharply cut death rates among British soldiers fighting in ...Read more
It’s OK to mow in May − the best way to help pollinators is by adding native plants
It’s a simple idea: Stop mowing your lawn in the month of May to let flowers in the lawn, such as dandelions and clover, grow and support bees and other pollinators.
“No Mow May” was started in 2019 by Plantlife, a conservation charity based in the United Kingdom, in response to a well-documented loss of meadows and an alarming ...Read more
Term limits aren’t the answer
There’s no denying that the current Congress has been one of the most chaotic in recent memory. The paralysis in 2023 and 2024 over the selection of the speaker of the House helped lead to one of Congress’ most unproductive years in history.
And although House Speaker Mike Johnson, a Louisiana Republican, survived an effort on May...Read more
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