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Month: March 2024

Russia persists in blaming Ukraine for concert attack despite its denial and Islamic State’s claim

MOSCOW (AP) — Russian officials persisted Tuesday in saying Ukraine and the West had a role in last week’s deadly Moscow concert hall attack despite vehement denials of involvement by Kyiv and a claim of responsibility by an affiliate of the Islamic State group. Without offering any evidence, Alexander Bortnikov, head of the Federal Security

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Iowa attorney general not finished with audit that’s holding up contraception money for rape victims

By HANNAH FINGERHUT Associated Press DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — The Iowa attorney general’s office said it is still working on an audit of its victim services that has held up emergency contraception funding for victims of sexual assault. Attorney General Brenna Bird, a Republican, paused the funding while awaiting the results of the audit

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Court tosses Republican Pennsylvania lawmakers’ challenge of state, federal voter access actions

HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — A federal court has dismissed an attempt by conservative Pennsylvania lawmakers to overturn automatic voter registration, along with lawmakers’ other challenges to actions designed to boost voter access. Pennsylvania U.S. District Judge Jennifer Wilson wrote in her decision Tuesday that the lawmakers did not have legal standing in their filing. The

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Nuevo gobierno se acerca a UABC

¿Quién es Manuel Rosales, el candidato presidencial opositor que sí se pudo inscribir en Venezuela?

CNNEspañol sjv (CNN Español) — Manuel Rosales parece ser la carta que le queda a la oposición en Venezuela. Después de que Corina Yoris no pudiera inscribir su candidatura en reemplazo de la inhabilitada María Corina Machado —ganadora de las primarias—, Un Nuevo Tiempo (UNT), uno de los partidos políticos que había apoyado a Machado,

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Venezuelan opposition coalition says it was blocked from registering its presidential candidate

By JORGE RUEDA Associated Press CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — Venezuela’s main opposition coalition says that electoral authorities didn’t let the group register its presidential candidate as the deadline passed, in what it calls the latest blow to democracy in the South American country. Omar Barboza, a representative of the U.S.-backed Unitary Platform coalition, says that

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Biden and Harris argue that Democrats will preserve health care and Republicans would take it away

By CHRIS MEGERIAN Associated Press RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris have been promoting their health care agenda during an appearance in Raleigh, North Carolina. It’s the final stop on Biden’s tour of battleground states after his State of the Union address. Biden on Tuesday said Democrats like him

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