The United Nations announced the appointment Friday of U.S. agriculture official Luke Lindberg to head the World Food Program, the U.N. food agency that calls itself “the world’s frontline responder to hunger” in conflicts, crises and emergencies around the world. Lindberg, the son-in-law of Sena...
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Thousands of people joined outside the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts Friday evening to protest President Donald Trump's plans for the facility, lending their voices to a chorus of organizations and individuals who have been horrified that he might make good on hi...
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A federal judge on Friday afternoon paused a bid by Texas Republicans to restrict participation in the GOP’s primary elections to voters registered with the party. While Judge Matthew Kacsmaryk, a U.S. district judge based in Amarillo, stopped the effort, he wrote in his order th...
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The first state visit by the leader of China in more than a decade takes place next week when President Xi Jinping arrives in Washington for high-stakes talks — and a little schmoozing — at the White House with President Donald Trump . When Xi’s plan lands at Joint Base Andrews j...
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There are no changes to the mail-in ballot voting system, local election officials confirmed after the U.S. Supreme Court shot down an effort from President Donald Trump’s administration to place restrictions on mail-in voting. Ballots should be mailed out next week, and the elec...
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Late-night service workers and bar hoppers alike could soon have a new way to get home from downtown as VIA Metropolitan Transit plans a pilot program using VIA Link and ridesharing. Even after the daily bustle is over in downtown, the multitude of bar, restaurant, hotel and reta...
