money Olympian Rennae Stubbs on the 'importance' of normalizing conversations about mental health
Tennis Grand Slam champion Rennae Stubbs discusses with Nicolle Wallace the importance of public figures speaking out about their mental health issues.
Tennis Grand Slam champion Rennae Stubbs discusses with Nicolle Wallace the importance of public figures speaking out about their mental health issues.
US futures are holding for the first time in days as investors seek stability.
Cook Islands Prime Minister Mark Brown will visit China next week, the first visit by a leader of the small South Pacific state in a decade, to help improve ties ranging from trade, climate and investment to tourism and infrastructure. The visit comes as Beijing aims to increase its influence in the Pacific region and after some Pacific island nations raised concerns over U.S. President Donald Trump's freezing of foreign aid, crackdown on illegal migration, and withdrawal from The Paris Agreement on climate change. Brown said in a statement on Thursday that his visit to China is part of a broader strategy to strengthen relations with all its key partners including New Zealand, Australia and China.
The archbishop of New Orleans' Catholic Church denies he ousted top leadership at a church-affiliated food bank in Louisiana for refusing to redirect millions of dollars to support clergy sexual abuse settlements, according to a video statement he published this week. Two fired board members have issued statements saying they were removed last week by Archbishop Gregory Aymond of the Archdiocese of New Orleans after resisting pressure to channel as much as $16 million to support the church's long-running bankruptcy negotiations with hundreds of sexual abuse survivors.
A man was executed by lethal injection in the US state of Texas on Wednesday for the 2011 murder of a pastor that he insisted he did not commit."I'm being executed for a crime, a murder, that I did not commit."
A serial rapist and murderer is to be put to death by nitrogen gas in Alabama on Thursday, the fourth use of the controversial execution method in the southern US state.Alabama carried out three executions by nitrogen asphyxiation last year and is the only US state currently using the method.
With his dizzying moves to slash spending, abolish government departments and lay off much of the federal workforce, Donald Trump has upended the US constitutional order in an unprecedented assertion of executive might.Analysts interviewed by AFP said Congress had been ceding territory to the White House since before Franklin Roosevelt set the record for executive orders that still stands -- 3,721, against a few hundred so far for Trump.
Two million US federal workers face a deadline of Thursday to quit with a guarantee of eight months' more paid work or risk being fired on the spot -- a deal derided by labor groups as a "scam" calculated to undermine the civil service.Labor groups derided the offer as fraught with legal issues and warned against taking it up, questioning whether the government could guarantee the eight months' pay, given that approved government funding runs out in March.
The sudden freezing of US aid to malaria projects comes as deadly new variants are spreading in Africa and could have a devastating impact, the head of a major NGO told AFP. The US government has provided some 40 percent of the annual funding globally for control and research into a disease that causes more than 600,000 deaths from 250 million cases each year -- mostly in Africa. "The invasion and spread of Anopheles stephensi has the potential to change the malaria landscape in Africa and rever
In Morocco's tourist hub of Marrakesh, a contemporary art fair has energised the local creative scene, drawing on the famed city's aesthetic legacy to propel emerging African artists into the global spotlight."The energy this fair brings to the African art scene is exceptional," said French-Moroccan artist Margaux Derhy, who exhibited hand-embroidered portraits with Morocco's Atelier 21 gallery.
The United States said Wednesday it was making an exemption in President Donald Trump's aid freeze to support a security mission in troubled Haiti, although some assistance was put on hold."The United States has not paused all assistance for the Multinational Security Support mission in Haiti," the spokesperson said.
Heavily armed federal agents raided apartment buildings across metro Denver early Wednesday in a search for Venezuelan gang members and other migrants.
The Trump administration evicted former Coast Guard Commandant Linda Fagan from her home with three hours of notice on Tuesday.
Officials said it'll take several days to remove all of the wreckage from the D.C. plane crash.
President Donald Trump’s proposal of a U.S. takeover of Gaza that would displace Palestinians has reignited a debate among Democrats over the role the “uncommitted” movement played in their 2024 election defeat.
The U.S. AI Safety Institute's inaugural director, Elizabeth Kelly, is departing her role on Wednesday, she said in a LinkedIn post, a move that leaves open the nascent government body's direction under President Donald Trump. Named to the position a year ago, Kelly oversaw the institute's initial work to measure and counter risks from increasingly powerful artificial intelligence systems. The institute, founded in the administration of former President Joe Biden, sits within the U.S. Commerce Department's National Institute of Standards and Technology.
Texas executed Steven Nelson for the 2011 murder of the Rev. Clint Dobson Wednesday night. It is the second execution of the year in the nation.
Google’s parent company has removed mention of “diversity, equity, and inclusion” from its annual report to the Securities and Exchange Commission and ended hiring goals for representation this week as corporate America experiences the ripple effects of the Trump administration’s targeting of DEI policies within the federal government.
Top Trump administration voices on Wednesday contradicted some of the comments the president made a day earlier about the U.S. taking long-term control of war-shattered Gaza, the possibility of sending in American troops and the area’s residents being permanently resettled. President Donald Trump 's remarks Tuesday set off alarm in Arab countries and even among some of his Republican allies before Secretary of State Marco Rubio and White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt tried to walk them back.
CIUDAD JUÁREZ, Mexico (AP) — A line of Mexican National Guard and Army trucks rumbled along the border separating Ciudad Juárez and El Paso, Texas Wednesday, among the first of 10,000 officers Mexico has sent to its northern frontier following tariff threats by President Donald Trump. Masked and armed National Guard members picked through brush running along the border barrier on the outskirts of Ciudad Juárez, pulling out makeshift ladders and ropes tucked away in the trenches, and pulling them onto trucks. It comes after a turbulent week along the border after Trump announced he would delay imposing crippling tariffs on Mexico for at least a month.
KUALA LUMPUR (Reuters) -Malaysia sees any proposal for the forced displacement of Palestinians as constituting ethnic cleansing and a violation of international law, the foreign ministry said on Thursday after U.S. President Donald Trump proposed a U.S. takeover of Gaza. The ministry said it supported a two-state solution as the path to lasting peace and stability.