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The U.N. General Assembly on Wednesday adopted a resolution declaring the trafficking of enslaved Africans “the gravest crime against humanity” and calling for reparations as “a concrete step towards remedying historical wrongs.”The resolution also urges “the prompt and unhindered...

Melania Trump often commands the attention of any room she enters but all eyes — and cameras — were trained on her humanoid companion on Wednesday.The robot accompanied the first lady to the White House East Room for the final day...

None of it has knocked it off its perch. The Ivy league institution was once again deemed the No. 1 “dream school” among college applicants, according to a new survey by The Princeton Review.Harvard has consistently ranked near the...

Millie Morales believes in hard work.“I feel that as an American citizen, we all have a great opportunity to be able to improve our life,” the 58-year-old woman explained in an interview I conducted...

Few regions pose as much of an economic conundrum as Pittsburgh.Is the city and region – once the center of American steelmaking – a paragon of postindustrial transformation, or a left-behind region still struggling...

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December 2022The Strateg, originally named Melodia and sailing under the Marshall Islands flag, is part of a fleet exporting crude oil from RussiaJune 2023The ship is renamed Li Bai and changes its flag to Panama2024It makes calls to Russian...

Lawyers for the Department of War and Anthropic sparred in a California federal court on Tuesday over Anthropic’s challenge to the Pentagon labeling it a “supply-chain risk” to national security and banning all government contractors from using the company’s...

Moldova’s Parliament voted on Tuesday to impose a state of emergency in the country’s energy sector after Russian strikes on neighboring Ukraine’s energy grid disconnected a key power line linking Moldova to Romania.The overnight strikes triggered the disconnection of the...

The year was 1974 and President Richard Nixon had dispatched his Secretary of State Henry Kissinger to Saudi Arabia to strike a secret deal. Three years earlier, in August 1971, Nixon had already administered the “shock” that ended the...