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New York appeals court overturns Harvey Weinstein’s 2020 rape conviction from landmark #MeToo trial

April 25, 2024, 8:10am Nation & World Updated 1 day ago

New York’s highest court on Thursday overturned Harvey Weinstein ‘s 2020 rape conviction, finding the judge at the landmark #MeToo trial prejudiced the ex-movie mogul with “egregious” improper rulings, including a decision to let women testify about allegations that weren’t part of the case. Read story

U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken, center, shakes hands with Scott Walker, Consul General at the U.S Consulate General in Shanghai, as Blinken prepares to depart, Thursday, April 25, 2024, from the Shanghai Hongqiao International Airport in Shanghai, China, en route to Beijing.

Blinken raises Chinese trade practices in meetings with officials in the financial hub of Shanghai

U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken, center, shakes hands with Scott Walker, Consul General at the U.S Consulate General in Shanghai, as Blinken prepares to depart, Thursday, April 25, 2024, from the Shanghai Hongqiao International Airport in Shanghai, China, en route to Beijing.

April 25, 2024, 8:08am Nation & World

U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken raised what the U.S. describes as unfair Chinese trade practices during his first full day of meetings in China on Thursday with local government officials in the financial hub of Shanghai. Read story

Malaria is still killing people in Kenya, but a vaccine and local drug production may help

April 25, 2024, 8:08am Nation & World

As the coffin bearing the body of Rosebella Awuor was lowered into the grave, heart-wrenching sobs from mourners filled the air. Her sister Winnie Akinyi, the guardian to Awuor’s orphaned son, fell to the ground, wailing. Read story

This family photo shows Ryan Corbett holding rabbits with his daughter Miriam and son Caleb in Kabul, Afghanistan in 2020. Lawyers for Corbett, believed held by the Taliban for nearly two years, are asking a United Nations human rights investigator to intervene, citing what they say is cruel and inhumane treatment. Corbett was abducted on August 10, 2022 after returning to Afghanistan, where he and his family had been living at the time of the collapse of the U.S.-based government there one year earlier, on a valid 12-month business visa to pay and train staff.

Family of American man believed to be held by Taliban asks the UN torture investigator for help

This family photo shows Ryan Corbett holding rabbits with his daughter Miriam and son Caleb in Kabul, Afghanistan in 2020. Lawyers for Corbett, believed held by the Taliban for nearly two years, are asking a United Nations human rights investigator to intervene, citing what they say is cruel and inhumane treatment. Corbett was abducted on August 10, 2022 after returning to Afghanistan, where he and his family had been living at the time of the collapse of the U.S.-based government there one year earlier, on a valid 12-month business visa to pay and train staff.

April 25, 2024, 8:08am Nation & World Updated 1 day ago

Lawyers for an American believed to be held by the Taliban for nearly two years are asking a United Nations human rights investigator to intervene, citing what they say is cruel and inhumane treatment. Read story

Activist Stephen Parlato of Boulder, Colo., right, joins other protesters outside the Supreme Court as the justices prepare to hear arguments over whether Donald Trump is immune from prosecution in a case charging him with plotting to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election, on Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday, April 25, 2024. (AP Photo/J.

Supreme Court arguments begin over Trump’s claim of absolute immunity from prosecution

Activist Stephen Parlato of Boulder, Colo., right, joins other protesters outside the Supreme Court as the justices prepare to hear arguments over whether Donald Trump is immune from prosecution in a case charging him with plotting to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election, on Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday, April 25, 2024. (AP Photo/J.

April 25, 2024, 7:47am Latest News

Supreme Court arguments have begun over whether former President Donald Trump can avoid prosecution over his efforts to overturn his 2020 election loss to Democrat Joe Biden. Read story

FILE - U.S. Ambassador to United Nations Linda Thomas-Greenfield speaks on Thursday, April 18, 2024, in Tokyo. The U.N. Security Council is set to vote Wednesday, April 24, 2024, on a resolution announced by Thomas-Greenfield, calling on all nations to prevent a dangerous nuclear arms race in outer space. It is likely to be vetoed by Russia.

Russia vetoes a UN resolution calling for the prevention of a dangerous nuclear arms race in space

FILE - U.S. Ambassador to United Nations Linda Thomas-Greenfield speaks on Thursday, April 18, 2024, in Tokyo. The U.N. Security Council is set to vote Wednesday, April 24, 2024, on a resolution announced by Thomas-Greenfield, calling on all nations to prevent a dangerous nuclear arms race in outer space. It is likely to be vetoed by Russia.

April 25, 2024, 7:46am Nation & World

Russia on Wednesday vetoed a U.N. resolution sponsored by the United States and Japan calling on all nations to prevent a dangerous nuclear arms race in outer space, calling it “a dirty spectacle” that cherry picks weapons of mass destruction from all other weapons that should also be banned. Read story

Ex-U.S. official alleges Israeli military gets ‘special treatment’

April 24, 2024, 7:42pm Nation & World

A former senior U.S. official who until recently helped oversee human-rights compliance by foreign militaries receiving American military assistance said Wednesday that he repeatedly observed Israel receiving “special treatment” from U.S. officials when it came to scrutiny of allegations of Israeli military abuses of Palestinian civilians. Read story

FILE - Mark Meadows speaks with reporters at the White House, Oct. 21, 2020, in Washington. Meadows, chief of staff for former President Donald Trump, was among those indicted Wednesday, April 24, 2024, in an Arizona election interference case.

Arizona indicts 18 in case over 2020 election in Arizona, including Giuliani and Meadows

FILE - Mark Meadows speaks with reporters at the White House, Oct. 21, 2020, in Washington. Meadows, chief of staff for former President Donald Trump, was among those indicted Wednesday, April 24, 2024, in an Arizona election interference case.

April 24, 2024, 6:41pm Nation & World

An Arizona grand jury has indicted former Donald Trump chief of staff Mark Meadows and lawyer Rudy Giuliani along with 16 others in an election interference case. Read story

A couple watches the sun set from a park in Kansas City, Mo. A quarter of U.S. adults over the age of 50 have no retirement savings, according to a new AARP survey.

25% of adults 50, older expect to never retire

A couple watches the sun set from a park in Kansas City, Mo. A quarter of U.S. adults over the age of 50 have no retirement savings, according to a new AARP survey.

April 24, 2024, 6:19pm Nation & World

About one-quarter of U.S. adults age 50 and older who are not yet retired say they expect to never retire and 70 percent are concerned about prices rising faster than their income, an AARP survey finds. Read story

Russia vetoes U.N. resolution on outer space

April 24, 2024, 3:54pm Nation & World

Russia on Wednesday vetoed a U.N. resolution sponsored by the United States and Japan calling on all nations to prevent a dangerous nuclear arms race in outer space, calling it “a dirty spectacle” that cherry-picks weapons of mass destruction from all other weapons that should also be banned. Read story