A U.S. judge on Friday imposed a lifetime prison sentence on a member of an Islamic State militant group nicknamed “The Beatles” that beheaded American hostages, at a hearing where one victim’s mother told the defendant, “I will not hate you.”
Energy ministers in the European Union are meeting today to discuss Russia’s decision to cut gas supplies to NATO members Bulgaria and Poland.
As the second round of the NBA playoffs kicked off last night, there is no bigger story than Joel Embiid being out indefinitely with a right orbital fracture and mild concussion.
Finland will almost certainly apply for membership in NATO, Sweden’s Foreign Minister Ann Linde told Swedish television on Sunday.
Members of the Christian Legal Society (CLS) at the University of Idaho have sued the university for violating the First and Fourteenth Amendments protecting religious freedom.
A volatile stock market faces a critical test next week, when the U.S. Federal Reserve is expected to raise interest rates and give more insight on its plans for tightening monetary policy to fight surging inflation.
Pope Francis on Sunday paid tribute to journalists who have died or been jailed in the line of duty, defending a free press and praising those in the media who courageously report on “humanity’s wounds.”
One industrious atheist activist has used Florida’s new law, which allows the public to challenge books in public school classrooms and libraries, to petition the majority of school districts within the state to remove the Bible.
Thousands of people joined May Day protests across France on Sunday to demand social justice and salary increases and to push newly re-elected President Emmanuel Macron to drop his plan to raise the retirement age.
Around 100 Ukrainian civilians were being evacuated from a ruined steelworks in the city of Mariupol on Sunday, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said, after the United Nations had confirmed a “safe passage operation” was in progress there.
