Tag: National governments
France, Germany plan billions in pandemic recovery spending
FRANKFURT, Germany — France and Germany together laid out plans for billions in spending from the European Union's pandemic recovery fund aimed at fighting...
Russian defense chief scoffs at Western warnings on Ukraine
<p>MOSCOW — Russia's defense chief said Tuesday that a troop pullback from areas near Ukraine had nothing to do with Western pressure, adding that...
Russian defense chief scoffs at Western warnings on Ukraine
MOSCOW — Russia's defense chief said Tuesday that a troop pullback from areas near Ukraine had nothing to do with Western pressure, adding that...
Sentencing set for juvenile lifer whose case set precedent
MONTGOMERY, Ala. — A judge is set to decide the punishment for an Alabama man, sentenced to life in prison for a murder he...
Justices question California disclosure rule for charities
<p>WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court appeared likely Monday to put a stop to California's practice of collecting the names and addresses of top donors...
Student’s Snapchat profanity leads to high court speech case
WASHINGTON — Fourteen-year-old Brandi Levy was having that kind of day where she just wanted to scream. So she did, in a profanity-laced posting...
High court to hear Guantanamo prisoner’s state secrets case
WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court will decide whether a Palestinian man captured in the wake of 9/11 and detained at the prison on the...
Supreme Court declines to hear wrestlers’ brain damage cases
HARTFORD, Conn. — The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday declined to hear the appeals of several former pro wrestlers who claimed in lawsuits that...
Justices question California disclosure rule for charities
WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court appeared likely Monday to put a stop to California's practice of collecting the names and addresses of top donors...
Ghislaine Maxwell’s sleep loss in jail concerns judges
NEW YORK — Appeals judges hearing bail arguments seemed sympathetic Monday to claims that British socialite Ghislaine Maxwell is unjustly kept awake at night...