AUSTIN, Texas: Texas Gov. Greg Abbott has said he would challenge a 1982 U.S. Supreme Court ruling requiring states to offer free public education to all children, including undocumented migrants. Known as “Plyler v. Doe,” the ruling overturned a Texas law that denied funding for state education to children who were ‘legally admitted’ to the […]

BAMAKO, Mali: Mali’s ruling junta has announced that it is breaking its defense pacts with France and other European countries, which were signed nearly a decade ago to help the Malian military stop a jihadist offensive. Junta spokesperson Colonel Abdoulaye Maiga said, in a televised statement, that for some time Mali had noticed “a profound […]

ATLANTA, Georgia: Transgender boys and girls will be banned from playing on Georgia high school sports teams. The Georgia High School Association’s executive committee, meeting in Thomaston, voted unanimously this week for the change, saying that students must play on teams that match the sex listed on their birth certificates at birth. “Everyone should have […]

SAN FRANCISCO, California: According to a survey published this week by the Kaiser Family Foundation’s Vaccine Monitor, only 18 percent of parents of children under the age of 5 years said they would have their children vaccinated against COVID-19 once a vaccine becomes available. Nearly 40 percent of parents in the survey said they would […]

LAS VEGAS, Nevada: Weather delays and a fully dressed bride and groom walked down the aisle of their airplane mid-flight to be married at 30,000 feet last week. The couple, Pam and Jeremy Salda from Oklahoma, decided they would hop on a plane to get married in Las Vegas last week. The couple, who had […]

ALBUQUERQUE, New Mexico: As firefighters scrambled to keep the largest blaze burning in the U.S. from destroying more homes in the foothills of the Rocky Mountains, New Mexico Governor Michelle Lujan Grisham asked President Joe Biden to declare a federal disaster. During a briefing on the fire burning across the state’s northeast, Lujan Grisham, a […]

TAIPEI, Taiwan: Taiwan Foreign Minister Joseph Wu has said the island nation is carefully studying Russia’s invasion of Ukraine to learn lessons applicable to its situation with China. In an interview on CNN, Wu, who is serving in the government of President Tsai Ing-wen, said, “We try to see what we can learn from Ukraine […]

BERLIN, Germany – Facing pressure from Ukraine and other European nations to cut energy imports from Russia, which help fill Russian President Vladimir Putin’s war chest, Germany says it’s making progress on weaning itself off Russian fossil fuels. Economy and Climate Minister Robert Habeck said this week that Europe’s largest economy has reduced the share […]

MOBILE, Alabama: Researchers from the Alabama Historical Commission are returning to the coast near Mobile to evaluate the remains of the last slave ship to bring captive Africans to the U.S., which sunk more than 160 years ago. The wreck has been described by experts as the most complete slave ship ever discovered. A team […]

MIAMI, Florida: In a sting operation in Miami, Premier of the British Virgin Islands (BVI) Andrew Fahie was arrested last week for conspiring to import cocaine into the United States, along with money laundering charges. Officials alleged that Oleanvine Maynard, the manager director of the Caribbean territory’s port authority, and her son Kadeem, working with […]