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WASHINGTON — A Biden administration task force designed to reunite children separated from their families during the Trump administration has reconnected nearly 700 children with their families, officials said Thursday. President Joe Biden issued an executive order on his first day in office to reunite families that were split up under Trump’s widely condemned practice of […]

Irene Cara’s cause of death has been revealed to be hypertension and high cholesterol. According to documents from the medical examiner in Florida’s Pinellas County, the Fame star’s cause of death has been confirmed as arteriosclerotic and hypertensive cardiovascular disease. The documents, obtained by TMZ, also stated that Cara was diabetic. The Flashdance… What a […]

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy is meeting with European leaders in Kyiv on Friday. He is hoping to extract a fast-track promise for his country’s entry into the European Union and gain the imposition of more sanctions on Russia at the summit. Analysts, however, say that his hopes of an expedited path into the EU will […]

WASHINGTON — America’s employers added a robust 517,000 jobs in January, a surprisingly strong gain in the face of the Federal Reserve’s aggressive drive to slow growth and tame inflation with higher interest rates. The unemployment rate dipped to 3.4%, a new half-century low. Friday’s government report added to the picture of a resilient labor market, […]

European Union leaders arrived Thursday in Kyiv with a message of support for the Ukrainian people, while Ukraine’s president warned of a push by Russian forces ahead of the one year anniversary of Russia’s invasion. “We are here together to show that the EU stands by Ukraine as firmly as ever. And to deepen further […]

President Joe Biden’s administration said on Wednesday it would support a scaled-back version of ConocoPhillips’ planned $6 billion Willow oil and gas drilling project in Alaska but has not yet made a final decision on the contentious proposal. The Willow project’s fate is being closely watched by both the oil and gas industry and environmental […]

BRASILIA, BRAZIL — Brazil is preparing a task force of armed forces, police and government agencies to expel illegal gold miners who invaded the Yanomami indigenous reservation, officials said on Tuesday. More than 20,000 wildcat miners are blamed for bringing disease, violence and hunger that have caused a humanitarian crisis for isolated Yanomami villages on Brazil’s […]

LONDON — Britain will announce a plan Tuesday to improve the environment, including a commitment to restore at least 500,000 hectares (1.2 million acres) of wildlife habitat to protect the country’s rarest species, from hedgehogs to red squirrels. The proposals comprise 70 new projects including 25 new or expanded National Nature Reserves, according to the Department […]

WELLINGTON, NEW ZEALAND — Flood-ravaged Auckland is expected to receive further heavy rain over the coming days, according to the city’s council, even as people start to count the cost of the flash floods that have hit New Zealand’s largest city since Friday. Four people have now lost their lives in the flash floods that have […]

CAIRO, Jan 29 (Reuters) – U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken arrived in the Middle East on Sunday, beginning a three-day visit as violence flares between Israelis and Palestinians, and with Iran and the war in Ukraine high on the agenda. After a stop in Cairo Blinken will head on Monday to Jerusalem, where Prime […]