Russia’s Central Bank sues Belgian financial institution as EU mulls using Moscow’s frozen assets

Russia’s Central Bank has filed a lawsuit against Belgian financial institution Euroclear, the Brussels-based clearing house ...

Efforts to require Asian American history in schools after anti-Asian hate starting to pay off

When high school students in the West Hartford Public Schools district study World War II in the coming year, they will learn ...

Converts are finding Eastern Orthodoxy online. The church wants to help them commune face-to-face

Often when a potential convert walks through the doors of his church, one of the first things the Very Rev. Andreas Blom ...

Iraqi ex-president Salih on track to lead UN refugee agency and take over from Grandi, letter says

Former Iraqi President Barham Salih is on track to become the next head of the U.N. refugee agency, according to a letter from U.N. Secretary-General António Guterres shared with The ...

Shoppers say ’tis the season for inflation, an AP-NORC poll finds

This holiday season isn’t quite so merry for American shoppers as large shares are dipping into savings, scouring for ...

Court blocks the release of hundreds of immigrants arrested in a Chicago-area crackdown

A federal appeals court blocked the immediate release of hundreds of immigrants detained during a Chicago area immigration ...

Sunny and warm today, arctic chill on the way

Good Friday morning! We’re starting off clear and cold, with temperatures hovering near freezing. Today will feel more like early spring than mid-December, with highs ...

Chileans are divided in a presidential runoff tilted toward the far right

Ask many Chileans how their country fared in the past several years and they’ll describe a descent into disaster: Venezuelan gangs surged across porous borders, ...

Washington state faces historic floods that have washed away homes and stranded families

Days of torrential rain in Washington state has caused historic floods that have stranded families on rooftops, washed over ...

Church nativity scenes add zip ties, gas masks and ICE to protest immigration raids

One baby Jesus lays in a manger in the snow, wrapped in a silver emergency blanket with his wrists zip-tied. Mary stands nearby outside the Lake Street Church in Evanston, ...

Cut off by their banks and even iced out by Alexa, sanctioned ICC staffers remain resolute

Judges and prosecutors at the International Criminal Court are trying to live and work under the same U.S. financial and ...

Abrego Garcia won release from detention. He must check in with immigration officials 14 hours later

Kilmar Abrego Garcia was due to check-in with immigration authorities on Friday, some 14 hours after he was released from ...