5+ hour, 48+ min ago   (710+ words) Donald Trump turns his focus Sunday to golf and promoting his business interests, as he wraps up a two-day Ireland visit so far marked by his off-the-cuff diplomacy causing another stir. The US president caught his Irish hosts and neighbouring…...

19+ hour, 27+ min ago   (416+ words) A firefighter fired a verbal fusillade of big-city-honed F-bombs to excoriate a pro-Palestinian agitator wearing an Elmo costume not far from where the city’s solemn 9/11 memorial was taking place at Ground Zero Friday. Called by one X account an “absolute…...

1+ day, 4+ hour ago   (557+ words) QUITO, Ecuador — Ecuadorian President Daniel Noboa fully aligned his administration with Washington’s aggressive strategy to dismantle transnational criminal organizations. This week, Noboa welcomed high-level U.S. support and reinforced warnings from the United States government that foreign drug-trafficking cartels will…...

2+ day, 12+ hour ago   (360+ words) The Ebola outbreak in eastern Congo is spreading rapidly beyond its epicenter, according to Africa’s top health body. In recent weeks, new cases and deaths have declined in Ituri province, the outbreak’s epicenter, but risen sharply in neighboring North Kivu…...

2+ day, 16+ hour ago   (486+ words) A fire ripped through a school in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo city of Bukavu on Thursday, sparking a stampede that killed at least 14 children, local and health sources said. The blaze began while the children were in lessons,…...

2+ day, 15+ hour ago   (319+ words) Sept. 10 (UPI) — Florida is expected Thursday to execute a man believed to be the so-called Hog Trail Killer, who is suspected to have killed as many as 13 men along the state’s Gulf Coast in the 1990s. Daniel Owen Conahan Jr., 72, is…...

2+ day, 17+ hour ago   (842+ words) Donald Trump’s pitch to send Americans $5,000 checks should Republicans prevail in the November midterms is drawing scorn from some members of Congress — the very people who have constitutional authority over federal spending. Economists and other political observers are voicing concerns…...

2+ day, 20+ hour ago   (1433+ words) President Donald Trump has pledged to send every American adult $5,000 if Republicans retain control of the House and Senate in the midterm elections. The dubious promise would likely cost more than $1 trillion and require congressional approval, and would further exacerbate…...

2+ day, 18+ hour ago   (1119+ words) Thousands of water systems nationwide still have not accounted for potentially dangerous lead pipes supplying homes and businesses with drinking water. Kathryn Pilgrim knew the century-old Victorian she bought in Dunkirk, New York, came with old plumbing. She replaced pipes…...

3+ day, 6+ hour ago   (829+ words) Ayana was deported to Cameroon from the United States where she had legally lived nearly all her life and now faces uncertainty, far from her family in an unfamiliar country. Born in a refugee camp in Sudan, she arrived in…...