ATLANTA (AP) – “Excuse me, are you a constituent of the city of Atlanta? Do you know Cop City?” Clipboards in hand, touts Sienna Giraldi and Gabriel Sanchez approached shoppers one by one in the parking lot of a Kroger supermarket last night, collecting signatures for a referendum on whether that should be the case … Read more
TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) – Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was discharged from hospital on Monday after undergoing emergency heart surgery and faced an unprecedented national crisis ahead of the parliamentary vote on the first major bill to overhaul the country’s justice system. The protesters, many of whom feel their country’s very foundations are being … Read more
STOCKHOLM (AP) – The man who said he would burn the Torah and Bible in front of the Israeli embassy in Stockholm abandoned his plan and instead held a one-person demonstration against the burning of holy books on Saturday, media reported. At the scene, he said he was a Muslim and threw a lighter he … Read more
Paris, France CNN — Nearly 500 people have been arrested in France as violent protests erupted in the fourth night over the killing of a 17-year-old who was shot by police. The protests continued into the early hours of Saturday, defying a ban on all “major events” in the country announced the day before. There … Read more
TALLINN, Estonia (AP) — Mercenary chief Yevgeny Prigozhin led an armed uprising against the Russian military – and was released. Others, who merely voiced criticism of the Kremlin, were not so lucky. On Tuesday, Russia’s main domestic intelligence agency, the FSB, said it had closed the criminal investigation into last week’s revolt and had not … Read more
SALEM, Ore. (AP) — Enough Republican members showed up in the Oregon Senate on Thursday to end a six-week strike that halted work in the Legislature and blocked hundreds of bills, including some on abortion and transgender health care and gun safety. The boycottthat prevented the Senate from achieving a two-thirds quorum needed to pass … Read more