JACKSON, Miss. – For 11 years, Sacheen Stamps never thought about flooding. She bought insurance when she moved into her home and promptly forgot about it. It’s all the 43-year-old can think about now. She can’t sleep. Sunday afternoon, she watched the water creep higher. […]
One Pennsylvania Girl Scout is the epitome of “once you’re a scout, you’re always a scout,” as she has spent 88 years serving with the community service organization. At the age of 98, Veronica “Ronnie” Backenstoe still dawns her green […]
The Boy Scouts of America has filed for bankruptcy protection. Facing mounting legal costs from defending itself against lawsuits alleging sexual abuse of boys, the venerable non-profit sought Chapter 11 protection in a court filing early Tuesday. A spokesman for […]
By Clement Uwiringiyimana KIGALI (Reuters) – A popular singer in Rwanda, who was jailed on charges of plotting to kill the country’s president but later pardoned, was found dead in a police cell on Monday in what authorities said was […]
Kigali (AFP) – A popular Rwandan singer whose music was banned by the ruling regime “committed suicide” in custody, police announced Monday, three days after he was caught trying to flee the country. Kizito Mihigo, a survivor of the Rwandan […]
JERUSALEM–Two decades of expanding operations against what United States Special Operations Command called a “global insurgency of state and non-state actors” has led to fatigue at home and questions abroad about U.S. strategy. Trump, Afghanistan, and ‘The Tweet of Damocles’ […]
Singapore cut its economic growth forecast for this year on Monday as the coronavirus batters tourist arrivals and trade. The city-state is one of the worst affected places outside China, with 75 cases of the virus so far. China has […]
(Bloomberg) — Sign up to our Next Africa newsletter and follow Bloomberg Africa on Twitter Plunging oil prices stemming from the coronavirus outbreak led the International Monetary Fund to cut its estimate for Nigerian economic growth, highlighting the difficulties Africa’s top crude producer […]
By Francesco Guarascio BRUSSELS (Reuters) – European Union finance ministers added Panama, the Seychelles, the Cayman Islands and Palau to the EU’s blacklist of tax havens, while giving Turkey more time to avoid being listed, an EU document said on […]
Sanders: Bloomberg is attempting to ‘buy the presidency’ originally appeared on abcnews.go.com Sen. Bernie Sanders directly attacked former New York City Mayor Mike Bloomberg for attempting to “buy the presidency” at a campaign rally Sunday in Carson City, Nevada. “Well, […]