Jewish American leaders are denouncing a proposal by the country’s right-wing government to weaken the power of the country’s judiciary, in ways that some call unusually forceful. Send any friend a story As a subscriber, you have
The first House Foreign Affairs Committee hearing on the U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan featured emotional and graphic testimony from two American service members who lived through it. Send any friend a story As a subscriber, you have
Thirty-one Democrats joined Republicans in voting to rescind a local law, in a demonstration of the political power of crime as an issue. The president, who had opposed the measure, now says he will sign it. Send any friend a…
No Ukrainian will ever forget the morning of February 24, 2022, when life as we knew it was shattered by the enormity of Russia’s full-scale invasion. I was awoken in Lviv that morning by a constant stream of phone calls…
Women will hit the streets en masse across the globe on Wednesday (8 March) to defend rights that are coming under increasing attack. To mark International Women’s Day, capitals across the world are hosting marches, rallies and demonstrations, including Madrid,…
Belgium should ensure that the Russian paramilitary organisation Wagner Group is included in the European list of terrorist organisations, according to calls from Green parties Ecolo and Groen. The two sister parties, one French-speaking, the other Flemish, have tabled a…
A renewed demand that an oversight panel be shown documents found at the homes of Donald Trump and Joe Biden came as the F.B.I. revealed new data about its use of the surveillance law. Send any friend a story As…
China sees a partnership with Russia as a way to challenge, and potentially weaken, the United States, a new threat assessment said. Send any friend a story As a subscriber, you have
Cochise County, a hotbed of conspiracy theories, transferred election duties from a nonpartisan office to the county’s elected recorder, a Republican. Send any friend a story As a subscriber, you have
European defence and security policy has matured following Russia’s war in Ukraine, MEP Lukas Mandl said in Prague, noting that Moscow would surely play a different role in the new geopolitical order, hopefully, a peaceful one. Mandl (ÖVP, EPP), Vice-Chair…