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Despite outcry over abuses in Gaza war, US president stresses that his commitment to Israel’s security is ‘ironclad’. Washington, DC – US President Joe Biden has signed into law a $94bn foreign funding bill that includes military aid to Israel, Ukraine and Taiwan, ending a months-long legislative impasse in Washington over the assistance. Biden hailed […]
The trip comes after US Senate’s approval of a bill that will provide billions of dollars in assistance to Ukraine, Israel and Taiwan. US Secretary of State Antony Blinken has arrived in China for a three-day trip, following Senate approval of a foreign aid package that will provide billions of dollars in assistance to Ukraine, […]
For parents, having a child enrolled at Walter Payton College Preparatory High School has always been a matter of pride. “My two girls go here, it’s the best high school in Chicago,” parent Julie Chen told NBC Chicago as she dropped off one of her daughters at the River North campus. According to
Several Illinois schools earned top spots in a new ranking of the country’s best high schools for 2024. The list, from U.S. News and World Report, titled “2024 Best High School Rankings,” reviewed more than 24,000 public high schools in all 50 states, editors said. Editors then categorized schools based on several factors including college […]
No date has been set yet for trial of reporter whose detention was extended in March by three months to June 30. A Moscow court has rejected the latest appeal by American journalist Evan Gershkovich against his pre-trial detention in an espionage case that he and United States authorities have rejected as false. Gershkovich, 32, […]
Eleven have been killed and 48 injured over the past week in Russian border regions due to Ukrainian attacks, the state news agency TASS cites the Russian Foreign Ministry as saying. “Over the past week, 59 civilians became victims of Nazi [Ukrainian] shelling: 48 were injured, including a child, and 11 died,” Rodion Miroshnik, the […]
The head of intelligence for the Israel Defense Forces said he will step down and retire over the Oct. 7 Hamas attack, in what Israeli media reported is the first departure of a general because of
(FG Trade/Getty Images) Black Americans have long had a complex relationship with the news media. In 1967, the Kerner Commission – a panel established by President Lyndon Johnson to investigate the causes of more than 150 urban riots in the United States – sharply criticized the media’s treatment of Black Americans. More than 50 years later, there […]
A 66-year-old woman was behind the wheel of the vehicle when she crashed and travelled 25 feet into the building, US authorities have said. Sunday 21 April 2024 05:13, UK Two children are dead, and a further 15 people have been injured after a suspected drunk driver crashed into a birthday party at a boat […]
BUCHAREST, Romania – The third convening of the Black Sea Maritime Forum, cohosted by Romanian Naval Forces, U.S. Naval Forces Europe-Africa and Allied Joint Force Command Naples, Italy, began April 4 in Bucharest, Romania. “Maritime security within the Black Sea is a shared interest among NATO allies and partner nations,” said Adm. Stuart B. Munsch, […]