China’s new migrants By Caleb Diehl, Dake Kang, Yuri Kageyama, Caterina Morbiato and Huizhong Wu China’s latest generation of emigrants is more diverse and showing up in noticeable numbers in more places. While many still head for the United States and other Western countries, growing pockets of Chinese are changing neighborhoods from Mexico City to
LOS ANGELES (AP) — The legal saga surrounding Hunter Biden took an unexpected turn when he pleaded guilty to nine federal tax counts after prosecutors refused to budge in their opposition to a special plea that would have allowed him to maintain his innocence. The twist that played out as jury selection was scheduled to
NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — A fire in a school dormitory in Kenya killed 17 students and seriously burned 13 others, police said Friday. There are fears that the death toll may rise, police said. The cause of the fire Thursday night at Hillside Endarasha Primary in Nyeri county was being investigated, police spokesperson Resila Onyango
MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — Pope Francis’s visit to Papua New Guinea will take him to a remote part of the South Pacific island nation where Christianity is a recent addition to traditional spiritual beliefs developed over millennia. Francis will visit the diocese of Vanimo on the main island of New Guinea, one of the most
COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) — Sri Lanka will hold its presidential election on Sept. 21 in a crucial vote that will decide the future of the South Asian nation still struggling to recover from its economic collapse in 2022, which provoked mass protests and forced the former President Gotabaya Rajapaksa to flee the country and
WINDER, Ga. (AP) — It was the middle of second period on Wednesday morning at Apalachee High School , and the boy who few knew slipped out of his algebra class in J Hall again. That didn’t strike his fellow students as unusual. “He got up sometime in the morning, and class continued as normal,”
Ballot measures on abortion access could attract voters to polls in November who otherwise might sit out the election — and even a small number of additional voters could make a difference in close races for offices from the state legislature to president. Scholars and ballot measure experts are divided on the impact ballot measures
Aug. 30-Sept. 5, 2024 Corinthians fans cheer in the stands of the Neo Quimica arena in Sao Paulo during a Brazilian league match. Nicaraguan citizens wave from a bus after being released from a Nicaraguan jail and arriving in Guatemala City. Argentine soccer players hoist up Ángel Di María following his retirement from the national
WASHINGTON (AP) — Russia has long sought to inject disinformation into U.S. political discourse. Now, it’s got a new angle: paying Americans to do the work. This week’s indictment of two Russian state media employees on charges that they paid a Tennessee company to create pro-Russian content has renewed concerns about foreign meddling in the
JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) — Pope Francis wrapped up his visit to Indonesia on Friday after celebrating Mass before an overflow crowd of 100,000, a final celebration before heading to Papua New Guinea for the second leg of his 11-day journey through Southeast Asia and Oceania. The 87-year-old pope had no official events Friday beyond a
