U.S. President Joe Biden and House Speaker Kevin McCarthy have reached an "agreement in principle" to limit federal spending and resolve the looming debt crisis ahead of a June 5 deadline, McCarthy says. A deal would avert a catastrophic U.S. default.
One of Hong Kong's biggest democratic parties said on Saturday it would disband after a vote by its party members, dealing another blow to the city's already beleaguered democratic opposition under pressure from China.
Now that Ron DeSantis is officially running to become the Republican nominee for the U.S. presidential election in 2024, voters can examine his time as Florida’s governor to get a better sense of his priorities. And while his campaign is just beginning, Florida serves as an initial blueprint for how he operates.
A Los Angeles County judge on Thursday said she will dismiss a lawsuit that the stars of 1968's Romeo and Juliet filed over the film's nude scene, finding that their depiction could not be considered child pornography and they filed their claim too late.
At least one person was killed and 15 wounded in a Russian missile strike on a clinic in the eastern Ukrainian city of Dnipro on Friday, said Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, denouncing the attack as a crime against humanity.
