Top-ranked Carlos Alcaraz has pulled out of the Australian Open because of an injured right leg.
America’s Adversaries Are Loving the Drama of the House Speaker Fight
The propaganda arms of China, Russia, North Korea, Iran, and Venezuela are all highlighting Kevin McCarthy’s chaotic bid for House Speaker.
Youth hockey coach fired after grabbing opposing player
A Connecticut youth hockey assistant coach has been fired after grabbing an opposing player and causing him to fall to the ice near the end of a tournament game in New Hampshire on New Year’s Eve.
Mali junta pardons 49 Ivorian soldiers whose detention sparked a diplomatic row
Mali’s junta leader on Friday pardoned all 49 Ivorian soldiers whose arrest in July triggered a bitter diplomatic row, a government spokesman said, just a week after the courts sentenced them.
Strikes in east Ukraine despite Putin’s ceasefire order
Bakhmut (Ukraine) (AFP) – Artillery exchanges pounded war-scarred cities in eastern Ukraine on Friday despite Russian leader Vladimir Putin unilaterally ordering his forces to pause attacks for 36 hours for the Orthodox Christmas.
The brief ceasefire …
Ex-Southern Cal official gets 6 months in college bribe case
A former University of Southern California athletics department official who accepted bribes from the ringleader of a nationwide college admissions scandal to help get often unqualified students into the school as sports recruits was sentenced Friday t…
Ukraine Says Allies No Longer View Giving Key Weapons as ‘Taboo’
The foreign minister, Dmytro Kuleba, welcomed pledges this week from France, Germany and the United States of military aid that his government had been seeking for months.