NEW YORK — Melinda French Gates is already one of the biggest philanthropic supporters of gender equity in the United States and is now poised to put another $12.5 billion toward intractable problems like closing the gender pay gap and increasing women’s political participation, her grantees hope. The additional funds come as French Gates announced […]
BRUSSELS (AP) — European Union nations endorsed sweeping reforms to the bloc’s failed asylum system on Tuesday as campaigning for Europe-wide elections next month gathers pace, with migration expected to be an important issue. EU government ministers approved 10 legislative parts of The New Pact on Migration and Asylum. It lays out rules for the […]
ROME — Pope Francis pressed his campaign Friday to urge Italians to have children, calling for long-term policies to help families and warning that the country’s demographic crisis was threatening the future. “The number of births is the first indicator of the hope of a people,” Francis told an annual gathering of pro-family groups. “Without […]
Prosecutors will call a new witness Monday when former President Donald Trump‘s hush money trial moves on from a dramatic cameo by Hope Hicks, a key former Trump aide who broke down in tears while describing the hectic days around the 2016 election and reports of hush payments. Prosecutors called Ms. Hicks Friday to shed […]
Hope Hicks, a top aide to former President Donald Trump during his political rise, is testifying in her former boss’ hush money trial about key players in 2016 payoffs to women and the fallout from the “Access Hollywood” tape before the election. Ms. Hicks admitted she was “really nervous” as she took the witness stand […]
WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. — Jordan Vassallo is lukewarm about casting her first presidential ballot for President Joe Biden in November. But when the 18-year-old senior at Jupiter High School in Florida thinks about the things she cares about, she says her vote for the Democratic incumbent is an “obvious choice.” Vassallo will be voting […]
You have to admire her for showing up to speak to her city council, at least. It’s good to see our young ones participate in local government. Beyond that, I have nothing good to say about Riddhi Patel, who went on an anti-Israel rant that included multiple threats to murder the members of the Bakersfield […]
It seems like we’ve been talking about comebacks a lot lately. Of course, there was the Easter season where the biggest “return” of all took place a mere two-thousand years ago. Then, more contemporarily, there was former President Donald Trump’s triumphal walk through the 2024 Republican presidential primary nominating race – if you can call […]
BUGESERA, Rwanda — Anastasie Nyirabashyitsi and Jeanette Mukabyagaju think of each other as dear friends. The women’s friendship was cemented one day in 2007, when Mukabyagaju, going somewhere, left a child behind for Nyirabashyitsi to look after. This expression of trust stunned Nyirabashyitsi because Mukabyagaju, a Tutsi survivor who lost most of her family in […]
Today, we commemorate the most important event in history: The women who had come with him from Galilee followed and saw the tomb and how his body was laid. Then they returned and prepared spices and ointments. On the Sabbath they rested according to the commandment. But on the first day of the week, […]
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