MEXICO CITY (Reuters) – Mexico City Mayor Claudia Sheinbaum will nominate the city’s interior minister, Marti Batres, to replace her as she steps down Friday to pursue the ruling party’s candidacy in next year’s presidential election, Sheinbaum said Wednesday. The office of Mexico City mayor is one of the most prominent political posts in the…
By Costas Pitas LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – Texas Governor Greg Abbott on Wednesday said the first group of migrants bused from his state to Los Angeles had arrived in the California city, the latest move by Republicans opposed to Democratic President Joe Biden’s immigration policies. Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass, a Democrat, said more than…
(Reuters) – Former President Donald Trump’s 2024 White House campaign said on Wednesday he had raised $7 million since being indicted on federal charges last week, as his message of political persecution continues to resonate with die-hard supporters. “President Trump Raises Over $6.6 Million and Counting Since Deranged Jack Smith Announced Political Prosecution,” Trump’s campaign…
By Kanishka Singh (Reuters) – A Montana man was sentenced on Wednesday to 18 years in prison for firing an assault rifle into a woman’s home and trying to rid a town of LGBTQ residents. John Howald, 46, of Basin, Montana, was convicted of the hate crime by a federal jury in February, the Justice…
By Ariba Shahid (Reuters) – The International Monetary Fund (IMF) on Thursday expressed dissatisfaction with Pakistan’s recently presented budget, a blow for the cash-strapped country which has only two weeks left until its bailout programme expires. Pakistan has barely enough currency reserves to cover one month’s imports. It had hoped to have $1.1 billion of…
By Kate Abnett BRUSSELS (Reuters) – The European Union should commit to slash its net greenhouse gas emissions by as much as 95% by 2040, official advisers said on Thursday, as Brussels prepares a new goal to curb Europe’s contribution to climate change. The European Commission is drafting what would be the EU’s first legally…
By Andrew Goudsward (Reuters) – A voting rights lawyer for the American Civil Liberties Union on Wednesday overcame fierce Republican opposition to secure U.S. Senate confirmation as a judge on the Manhattan federal district court. Dale Ho, director of the ACLU’s Voting Rights Project, was confirmed on a nearly party-line 50-49 vote. Sen. Joe Manchin…
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The Committee to Protect Journalists on Wednesday called on the U.S. government to urge India to end a media crackdown and release six detained journalists. A statement from CPJ President Jodie Ginsberg ahead of a state visit to Washington next week by Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi said there had been an…
By Agnieszka Pikulicka-Wilczewska WARSAW (Reuters) – Abortion rights supporters marched through several cities in Poland on Wednesday after the death of a pregnant woman whose family believe she could have survived if she had been offered a termination. Protesters chanted “stop killing us” as they marched through the capital Warsaw towards the health ministry headquarters,…
By Dave Sherwood and Matt Spetalnick BEJUCAL, Cuba (Reuters) – Just outside the sleepy Cuban village of Bejucal, a winding track, rutted with potholes and losing ground to the jungle, ends at a barbed wire fence. A sign warns: “KEEP OUT, MILITARY ZONE.” What lies beyond remains largely a mystery, though the U.S. government has…
