A woman who says she worked as a consultant for Rudy Giuliani alleges that the former New York City mayor coerced her into sex and owes her nearly $2 million.
Unthinkable just months ago, anti-abortion politicians are on the brink of restricting the practice in a critical oasis for care in the South.
Monica Bertagnolli will oversee billions in research grants if she’s confirmed to head the National Institutes of Health.
Palestinians across the globe are marking the 75th anniversary of the Nakba (“catastrophe” in Arabic), when some 700,000 Palestinians fled from or were violently expelled from their homes upon Israel’s founding in 1948. The occasion comes as five days of fighting, that killed 33 Palestinians in Gaza and two people in Israel, was brought to a stop this weekend after the Israeli army and the militant group Islamic Jihad agreed to a Egyptian-brokered ceasefire.
Turkey’s closely watched presidential election is headed to a May 28 runoff, as both incumbent President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and his main rival fell short of the 50% needed to win outright in Sunday’s vote.
The move sets up an override vote by the GOP supermajority legislature.
The FDA said it “strongly believes” the new policy will not hurt the safety or availability of the nation’s blood supply.
Independent advisers concluded that HRA Pharma’s application indicated that the benefit of allowing Opill to be sold without a prescription outweighed the risk of consumers taking it improperly.
When the fate of the country depends on a rich boy’s childhood trauma, we’re all doomed.
Fire retardant is toxic to fish. An Oregon nonprofit is arguing that it shouldn’t be used at all.
The sociologist Matthew Desmond believes that being poor is different in the U.S. than in other rich countries.
The Fed is paying particular attention to so-called core prices, which exclude volatile food and energy costs and are regarded as a better gauge of longer-term inflation trends.
POLITICO asked a panel of strategists and elected officials what under-the-radar issue they think could play an outsize role in 2024.
The slowdown reflects the impact of the Fed’s aggressive drive to tame inflation.
We speak with Serbian journalist Ljiljana Smajlović as Serbia reels from a pair of mass shootings that left 17 people dead, incidents that spurred mass protests and demands for stronger gun control. In light of the massacres, Serbian President Aleksandar Vučić vowed to completely disarm the country. More than 6,000 unregistered guns and weapons were turned in after the government announced a month-long amnesty on illegal weapons. “People are stunned.
We look at the political crisis in Pakistan as the Islamabad High Court on Friday granted two weeks’ bail to former Prime Minister Imran Khan after his arrest sparked mass protests. Paramilitary forces arrested Khan on corruption charges, but Pakistan’s Supreme Court later ruled his arrest was “invalid and unlawful.” Khan served as prime minister from 2018 to 2022, when he was ousted from office in what he called a “U.S.
The number of asylum seekers from Cuba and Venezuela is expected to grow as the Trump-era Title 42 asylum restriction ends. A group of House Democrats are urging the Biden administration to lift sanctions on the countries, which they say are driving people to leave their homes out of economic desperation. We speak with Venezuelan economist Francisco Rodríguez, author of a new report for the Center for Economic Policy and Research, “The Human Consequences of Economic Sanctions.
The Trump-era Title 42 policy has come to an end, but the Biden administration has instituted what human rights advocates say amounts to a new asylum ban. We get an update from the San Ysidro border crossing near San Diego, California, where hundreds of asylum seekers have been sleeping on the ground under trash bags and foil blankets, with many reporting they’ve not eaten in days. Pedro Rios, director of the American Friends Service Committee’s U.S.
“Absolutely extraordinary,” said Fox News’ Maria Bartiromo as she reacted to Rep. James Comer’s (R-Ky.) claims about his Biden family investigation.
Hasan calls out “Christian” conservatives for some not-very-Christian behaviors.
Haley still seemed wary of attacking Trump, who is the front-runner for the Republican presidential nomination.
It’s still “too early” to say whether the number of crossings has peaked, said the secretary of Homeland Security who credited the drop to harsher penalties for unlawful entry.
“We end up really arguing about identity and emotion and all kinds of stuff that does not have to do with keeping our children safe,” the former president said.
Makers of products that take medicine online say slow-moving bureaucracy is crushing innovation.
Health groups say the move could devastate a nursing workforce that is plagued by staffing shortages.
The FDA said it “strongly believes” the new policy will not hurt the safety or availability of the nation’s blood supply.
Independent advisers concluded that HRA Pharma’s application indicated that the benefit of allowing Opill to be sold without a prescription outweighed the risk of consumers taking it improperly.
The agency is slated to make a decision on approval of the daily hormonal pill by this summer.
