2+ hour, 52+ min ago  (522+ words) A Missouri judge has struck down a series of restrictions on abortion, finding they violated a constitutional amendment adopted by voters in 2024. A Missouri judge this week struck down a series of restrictions on abortion, finding they violated a constitutional…...

9+ hour, 22+ min ago  (358+ words) June 19 (UPI) " Karim Khan, chief prosecutor for the International Criminal Court, has been suspended by Britain's Bar Standards Board for alleged sexual misconduct. Khan, 56, was already suspended from duty by the ICC on June 9 for the allegations. Khan had been…...

9+ hour, 22+ min ago  (459+ words) June 19 (UPI) " Two men were sentenced to jail for arson attacks on property connected to British Prime Minister Keir Starmer. Roman Lavrynovych, 22, is from Ukraine. He was sentenced to seven years in prison for conspiring to commit arson on a…...

3+ hour, 51+ min ago  (512+ words) African officials must step up financing to respond and develop vaccines for the Ebola outbreak in Congo and Uganda. The outbreak has claimed more than 200 lives out of 894 confirmed cases since May 15, with up to 35, 000 contacts, the Africa Centers for…...

51+ min ago  (497+ words) Asylum seekers deported by the U. S. to Sierra Leone are being told they'll be sent back to their home countries despite legal protections by U. S. courts. About a dozen people deported from the U. S. arrived in Sierra Leone Thursday, the second deportation flight…...

5+ hour, 8+ min ago  (357+ words) Colombians are hours away from electing their president for the next four years in Sunday's runoff election between frontrunner conservative outsider Abelardo de la Espriella and far-left Senator Iv'n Cepeda. The runoff occurs three weeks after the first round'was held…...

9+ hour, 19+ min ago  (403+ words) Large crowds in Seoul accusing the leftist-run government of South Korea of election fraud marked two weeks on Thursday of protests in front of an Olympic sports complex used to tally ballots in the June 3 election. The NEC confirmed this…...

5+ hour, 37+ min ago  (653+ words) From the corridors of power in Washington to a Swiss mountaintop resort, via Tehran and a French spa, it has been a dizzying week of diplomacy on Iran " marked by surprise twists and a last-ditch hunt for a printer in…...

2+ hour, 3+ min ago  (232+ words) Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum fired back at U. S. President Donald J. Trump over his cartel-related statements at the G7 Summit. Trump claimed that Mexico was under the control of drug cartels. In her retort to Trump, Sheinbaum claimed he was misinformed and tried…...

6+ hour, 18+ min ago  (476+ words) Another teacher, another case of sexual misconduct with a student; it never seems to end. The latest is a male teacher and coach in Texas allegedly grooming a 16-year-old by discussing "threesomes" with other men. The Mc Lennan County Sheriff's…...