A week after he broke with the majority of House Republicans and voted to send $60.8 billion in aid to Ukraine, Representative Max Miller took the stage at a performing arts center in his Ohio district bracing for backlash.
Instead, Mr. Miller, a first-term congressman who spent four years in the White House as a top aide to former President Donald J. Trump, was greeted at a town hall-style meeting on Saturday in the city of Solon with a sustained round of applause. Several attendees stood to publicly thank him for his vote, and a line of locals...
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Inside an Abortion Clinic Days Before Florida’s Six-Week Ban Takes Effect
Until now, most abortions in Florida have taken place later than six weeks of pregnancy. The new law will replace a 15-week abortion ban that Gov. Ron DeSantis signed into law in April 2022, shortly before the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade.
Later on Saturday morning, as patients left the clinic, protesters encouraged them not to take their abortion pills, or to “repent” if they had already completed the procedure. One patient got into the driver’s seat of an S.U.V., where a man had waited for hours along with a dog and baby in a...
Edward Dwight, Once Picked to Be the First Black Astronaut in Space, Aims for Orbit at Last
Edward Dwight is going to space, finally.
In the coming weeks, as conditions allow, Mr. Dwight is expected to be part of a six-person crew heading beyond Earth’s orbit on the latest mission of Blue Origin, the space company founded by Jeff Bezos. Blue Origin’s seventh human flight will carry an array of adventurers including a venture capitalist, a craft-beer entrepreneur from France, a retired accountant who has been told by doctors that she is going blind, and Mr. Dwight, a retired Air Force captain who 60 years ago was chosen, and then passed...
Estonia Says Russia Violates International Rules With GPS Interference
COPENHAGEN (Reuters) – Estonia accused Russia of violating international airspace regulations by interfering with GPS signals and the Baltic nation’s foreign minister said it will take up the matter with its NATO and European Union partners.
Finnair on Monday announced a temporary suspension of its flights to Tartu in eastern Estonia for a month due to ongoing GPS disturbances that prevented two aircraft from landing.
The Finnish airline...
Columbia protesters take over Hamilton Hall -- a building demonstrators occupied during 1968 anti-Vietnam war protests
Columbia University begins suspending students still at encampment
Columbia University begins suspending students still at encampment
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NEW YORK — Protesters on Columbia University’s campus occupied Hamilton Hall early Tuesday — a building demonstrators took over during anti-Vietnam War protests in 1968.
Addressing a crowd...
Russian Strike Kills at Least Two in Ukraine's Kharkiv, Say Officials
KYIV (Reuters) – A Russian strike killed at least two people and wounded six more in the northeastern Ukrainian city of Kharkiv on Tuesday, according to local officials.
The Russian forces used guided bombs to carry out the attack on the city, according to preliminary information, Governor Oleh Synehubov said on the Telegram messaging app.
The attack damaged a residential building in one of the city districts, Kharkiv Mayor Ihor Terekhov...
China's Communist Party Will Hold Key 'Third Plenum' in July
BEIJING (Reuters) – The Chinese Communist Party’s central committee will gather in July for a key meeting known as a plenum, the third since the current body of elite decision makers was elected in 2022, state-run Xinhua news agency reported on Tuesday.
Plenums are important events on China’s political calendar that require the attendance of all of the party’s central committee, comprising 205 members and 171 alternate members with President...
Solomon Islands Opposition Party Chooses Wale as PM Candidate
(Reuters) – The Solomon Islands opposition party coalition has selected Matthew Wale as its candidate for this week’s vote for prime minister, a day after former Prime Minister Manasseh Sogavare said he had withdrawn from the race.
Wale is the leader of the Solomon Islands Democratic Party, and he will vie with former foreign minister Jeremiah Manele, who has the backing of Sogavare’s party, to lead the Pacific Islands nation.
A secret ballot of newly elected lawmakers to select the prime minister will be held on Thursday, after a national...
Binance Founder Changpeng Zhao Faces Sentencing; US Seeks 3-Year Term for Allowing Money Laundering
SEATTLE (AP) — Changpeng Zhao, the founder of Binance, the world’s largest cryptocurrency exchange, faces sentencing Tuesday in a Seattle courtroom, where U.S. prosecutors are asking a judge to give him a three-year prison term for allowing rampant money laundering on the platform.
Zhao pleaded guilty and stepped down as Binance CEO in November as the company agreed to pay $4.3 billion to settle related allegations. U.S. officials said Zhao...
Reported Indian Role in Assassination Plots a 'Serious Matter', White House Says
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The White House said on Monday it viewed the reported role of the Indian intelligence service in two assassination plots in Canada and the United States as a serious matter.
The Washington Post reported that an officer in India’s intelligence service was directly involved in a foiled plan to assassinate a U.S. citizen who is one of Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s most vocal critics in the United States. It said...
Residents of Northern Israel Brace for Possible All-Out War With Hezbollah
HAIFA, Israel (Reuters) – Eli Harel was an Israeli soldier in his early thirties when he was sent into Lebanon in 2006 to battle fighters from the Iranian-backed group Hezbollah in a bloody, largely inconclusive month-long war.
Now 50, Harel is ready to rejoin the army to fight the same group if shelling along Israel’s northern border turns into a full-blown war with Iran’s most powerful regional proxy. This time Israeli forces would face some...
Mexico Proudly Controls Its Energy but Could Find It Hard to Reach Its Climate Goals
MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexico’s taking control of its oil sector from U.S. and British companies is taught in schools and celebrated every year. The 1938 nationalization is a point of pride for millions of Mexicans including President Andrés Manuel López Obrador.
The popular president hails from the Mexican oil industry’s heartlandand 16 years ago he led a fight against energy reforms that were aimed at drawing private investment to the massive...
Trump Vents About Lawyer in His Hush-Money Criminal Trial
Donald J. Trump’s Manhattan criminal trial had barely begun when he started to turn his anger toward his lead lawyer, Todd Blanche.
Although Mr. Blanche has been Mr. Trump’s favorite lawyer for some time, behind closed doors and in phone calls, the former president has complained repeatedly about him in recent weeks, according to four people familiar with the situation.
He has griped that Mr. Blanche, a former federal prosecutor and veteran litigator, has not been following his instructions closely, and has been insufficiently aggressive. Mr....
From Baby Talk to Baby A.I.
We ask a lot of ourselves as babies. Somehow we must grow from sensory blobs into mobile, rational, attentive communicators in just a few years. Here you are, a baby without a vocabulary, in a room cluttered with toys and stuffed animals. You pick up a Lincoln Log and your caretaker tells you, “This is a ‘log.’” Eventually you come to understand that “log” does not refer strictly to this particular brown plastic cylinder or to brown plastic cylinders in general, but to brown plastic cylinders that embody the characteristics of felled, denuded...
Indonesia May Offer Dual Citizenship to Attract Overseas Workers, Minister Says
JAKARTA (Reuters) – Indonesia may offer dual citizenship to people of Indonesian descent to entice more skilled workers into the country, a senior cabinet minister said on Tuesday.
Indonesia does not recognise dual citizenship for adults, according to Indonesian law, as a child with two passports must choose one and renounce the other when they turn 18.
Luhut Pandjaitan, the coordinating minister for maritime affairs and investment, said the government plans to give dual citizenship to former Indonesian citizens living overseas, without...
Asian Shares Mostly Rise to Start a Week Full of Earnings, Fed Meeting
TOKYO (AP) — Asian shares mostly rose Tuesday, as investors kept their eyes on potentially market-moving reports expected later this week.
Japan’s benchmark Nikkei 225 jumped 1.0% to 38,300.49 in afternoon trading, coming back from a national holiday. Sydney’s S&P/ASX 200 rose 0.2% to 7,655.60. South Korea’s Kospi added 0.5% to 2,700.82. Hong Kong’s Hang Seng edged down 0.2% to 17,709.57, while the Shanghai Composite fell 0.2% to 3,105.64....
Mexico Is Taking Ecuador to the Top UN Court Over the Storming of the Mexican Embassy
THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — Mexico is taking Ecuador to the top U.N. court Tuesday, accusing the nation of violating international law by storming the Mexican Embassy in Quito to arrest a former vice president who had just been granted asylum by Mexico.
The April 5 raid, hours after Mexico granted asylum to former Vice President Jorge Glas, spiked tensions that had been brewing between the two countries since Glas, a convicted criminal and...