Italy grapples with its patriarchal history as femicide cases shock the nation
CNN By Barbie Latza Nadeau and Antonia Mortensen, CNN. Video by Alessandro Gentile (CNN) — Some are stabbed, some are shot, some are strangled.…
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Italy grapples with its patriarchal history as femicide cases shock the nation
By Barbie Latza Nadeau and Antonia Mortensen, CNN. Video by Alessandro Gentile (CNN) — Some are stabbed, some are shot, some are strangled. But…
Continue ReadingSenate passes key government funding bills hours ahead of shutdown deadline
By Clare Foran, Ted Barrett, Morgan Rimmer and Kristin Wilson, CNN The Senate passed a package of six government funding bills Friday evening just…
Continue ReadingViolence is battering Haiti’s fragile economy and causing food and water shortages
By EVENS SANON and DÁNICA COTO Associated Press PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — Unrelenting gang attacks in Haiti have paralyzed the country and left…
Continue ReadingWho are the Russian dissidents still serving time after Alexei Navalny died behind bars?
By DASHA LITVINOVA and KATIE MARIE DAVIES Associated Press TALLINN, Estonia (AP) — Russian President Vladimir Putin is expected to secure his fifth…
Continue ReadingPortugal is electing a new parliament and government. Here’s what to know about the major issues
By BARRY HATTON Associated Press LISBON, Portugal (AP) — Portugal is holding an early general election on Sunday when 10.8 million registered…
Continue ReadingA cleaner finds 2 dead babies in glass bottles in a vacated Hong Kong apartment. Police arrest 2
HONG KONG (AP) — Hong Kong police say a cleaning person found two dead baby boys in glass bottles in the living room of a vacated apartment.…
Continue ReadingJalen Green scores 27 points, the Rockets beat the Trail Blazers 123-107
By ANNE M. PETERSON AP Sports Writer PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — Jalen Green had 27 points, including two statement dunks in the third quarter, and the…
Continue ReadingKenyan activists are on a mission to end gender-based violence as attacks on women surge
By TOM ODULA Associated Press NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Njeri Migwi’s phone buzzes incessantly. Phone calls and messages keep coming in from women…
Continue ReadingThe US is springing forward to daylight saving. For Navajo and Hopi tribes, it’s a time of confusion
By TERRY TANG Associated Press TUBA CITY, Ariz. (AP) — Melissa Blackhair is not eager to spring forward Sunday. “I’m dreading it. I just…
Continue ReadingA lonely radio nerd. A poet. Vladimir Putin’s crackdown sweeps up ordinary Russians
By DASHA LITVINOVA Associated Press TALLINN, Estonia (AP) — A lonely man jailed for criticizing the government on his ham radio. A poet assaulted…
Continue ReadingItaly’s migrant detention centers in spotlight after death of Guinean and calls to close them down
By PAOLO SANTALUCIA Associated Press ROME (AP) — Pressure is building on authorities in Italy to close a notorious Rome migrant detention center…
Continue ReadingFemale representation remains low in US statehouses, particularly Democrats in the South
By LEAH WILLINGHAM and KIMBERLEE KRUESI Associated Press CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — Nearly 130 years since the first three women were elected to…
Continue ReadingUN chief: Legal equality for women could take 300 years as backlash rises against women’s rights
By EDITH M. LEDERER Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — Legal equality for women could take centuries as the fight for gender equality is…
Continue ReadingHow the US military is scrambling to build a floating dock for urgently needed aid to Gaza
By LOLITA C. BALDOR and TARA COPP Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Even before President Joe Biden announced in his State of the Union address…
Continue ReadingHeading platoons, repairing machines and doing twice as much: How the war has changed the lives of Ukrainian women
By Svitlana Vlasova, CNN Kyiv (CNN) — Most of the men in Oksana Rubanyak’s platoon are at least 10 years older than her. Before the war,…
Continue ReadingAs a fifth term for Vladimir Putin looms, Russia is stepping up its war on its own people
By Clare Sebastian, CNN (CNN) — On February 26, one of Russia’s longest-serving human rights activists stood up at the end of his trial in a…
Continue ReadingBiden, Trump issue dire warnings of the other, as rematch comes into view in Georgia
By JOSH BOAK and MICHELLE L. PRICE Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) — President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump warned of dire…
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J Bar J Youth Services opens new youth shelter in Redmond
J Bar J Youth Services has opened a new youth shelter in Redmond that can house up to six people and is the only such facility for teens in the…
Continue ReadingArmed men attack police stations near National Palace as Haiti’s gang violence spirals
By Michael Rios, Richard Roth, Sahar Akbarzai and Chris Lau, CNN (CNN) — Two police stations near Haiti’s National Palace were attacked by…
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