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Argentine President Milei travels to France to meet Macron after outcry over racist soccer chants 07/25/2024 03:07pm • BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) — Argentine President Javier Milei arrived Thursday in Paris, his office said, where he is expected to meet French President Emmanuel Macron after tensions escalated between their countries over the Argentine soccer team's derogatory post-match chants about French play A neurological disorder stole her voice. Jennifer Wexton takes it back on the House floor. 07/25/2024 01:33pm • When Jennifer Wexton rose Thursday to speak on the House floor, something she has done countless times before, the congresswoman used a voice she thought was gone forever. After a rare neurological disorder robbed her of her ability to speak clearly, Wexton has been given her voice back with the hel A neurological disorder stole her voice. Jennifer Wexton takes it back on the House floor. 07/25/2024 12:17am • When Jennifer Wexton rises Thursday to speak on the House floor, something she has done countless times before, the congresswoman will be using a voice she thought was gone forever. After a rare neurological disorder robbed her of her ability to speak clearly, Wexton has been given her voice back Financial Abuse and Fraud in Investment Accounts 07/24/2024 08:00pm • One of the most underestimated parts of being a savvy investor is identifying and defending against financial abuse and exploitation. While seniors and those with disabilities are frequent targets, financial exploitation and abuse can happen to anyone. Reports of fraud in investment accounts are on Fake protest set for TV shoot on NYC campus sparks real demonstration by pro-Palestinian activists 07/24/2024 02:52pm • NEW YORK (AP) — A fake protest encampment set up for a TV shoot on a New York City college campus sparked a real reaction from pro-Palestinian activists, who organized their own demonstration against the filming, a newspaper reported Wednesday. The scenario unfolded Monday and Tuesday at Queens Co Russian man is among those arrested in plots targeting Paris Olympics 07/24/2024 12:28pm • PARIS (AP) — French authorities have foiled several plots to disrupt the 2024 Olympics, including arresting a Russian man in one of them, officials said Wednesday, just days before the opening ceremony of the Summer Games in Paris. France has been on high alert over the past few weeks as preparat Farmers in Africa say their soil is dying and chemical fertilizers are in part to blame 07/24/2024 05:46am • NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — When Benson Wanjala started farming in his western Kenya village two and a half decades ago, his 10-acre farm could produce a bountiful harvest of 200 bags of maize. That has dwindled to 30. He says his once fertile soil has become a nearly lifeless field that no longer earns Russian-linked cybercampaigns put a bull's-eye on France. Their focus? The Olympics and elections 07/24/2024 04:56am • PARIS (AP) — Photos of blood-red hands on a Holocaust memorial. Caskets at the Eiffel Tower. A fake French military recruitment drive calling for soldiers in Ukraine, and major French news sites improbably registered in an obscure Pacific territory, population 15,000. All are part of disinformatio Maduro seeks to shore up Venezuela military's support ahead of vote threatening his hold on power 07/23/2024 10:31pm • AGUA CALIENTE, Venezuela (AP) — At a crossroads not far from a gas station overgrown with weeds, young men and women in faded green fatigues stop vehicles returning from a rally for opponents of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro, ask passengers for their identifications, and inspect their cars, US Army worker who stole nearly $109 million to buy mansions and luxury cars is sentenced 07/23/2024 06:49pm • A Texas woman who pleaded guilty to charges of stealing nearly $109 million from a youth development program for children of military families and using it to fund an extravagant lifestyle that included multiple mansions, a fleet of luxury cars and designer accessories was sentenced Tuesday to 15 ye Woman gets probation for calling in hoax bomb threat at Boston Children's Hospital 07/22/2024 05:34pm • A Massachusetts woman has been sentenced to three years of probation for calling in a fake bomb threat at Boston Children’s Hospital as it faced a barrage of harassment over its surgical program for transgender youths. Catherine Leavy pleaded guilty last year in federal court to charges including FACT FOCUS: A look at false claims around Kamala Harris and her campaign for the White House 07/22/2024 04:25pm • The announcement that Vice President Kamala Harris will seek the Democratic nomination for president is inspiring a wave of false claims about her eligibility and her background. Some first emerged years ago, while others only surfaced after President Joe Biden's decision to end his bid for a second Trump, GOP lawmakers react to Biden's decision to leave presidential race 07/21/2024 03:09pm • ▶ Watch Video: How Trump campaign is shifting its strategy with Biden out of race President Biden's unprecedented announcement on Sunday that he is dropping out of the 2024 presidential race prompted reactions from both sides of the aisle. Here's how forme Tech outage latest | Airlines and others rush to get back on track after global tech disruption 07/20/2024 01:12pm • Transport providers, businesses and governments on Saturday are rushing to get all their systems back online after long disruptions following a widespread technology outage. The biggest continuing effect has been on air travel. Carriers canceled thousands of flights on Friday and now have many of t What Usha Vance's rise to prominence means to other South Asian and Hindu Americans 07/19/2024 07:44pm • Usha Chilukuri Vance, entered the spotlight this week as the wife of JD Vance, former President Donald Trump's running mate in the 2024 presidential election. Her rise comes at a time when, across the aisle, there's another prominent figure of South Asian descent: Vice President Kamala Harris, the n