... City Council to support an up to $1.75 billion public financing package. The chamber joins other prominent backers of the proposal, including downtown business coalition Central Atlanta Progress and Gov. Nathan Deal, who have urged council approval.and more »

In 2016, Brazil's overwhelmingly male parliament voted to impeach Dilma Rousseff, the country's first woman president. The impeachment included parliamentarians chanting “Tchau Querida” (Bye Dear), and a popular sticker that suggested violent sexual ...and more »

Emanuel launched a program in fall 2016 aimed at providing universal mentoring to all in the eighth, ninth and 10th grades. In March, the city opened the program to seventh-grade students, with the idea being that mentoring boosts graduation rates and ...

This version focuses on roof replacements, library upgrades at George Fischer Middle School, renovations to upgrade handicap accessibility, and a new transportation facility. ... The roof experienced a leak in August after a period of extreme weather.

Mary Fallin's ninth annual Feeding Oklahoma Drive kicked off Monday with the goal of raising enough food and money to provide 2 million meals to Oklahomans living with hunger. The month-long drive benefits the Regional Food Bank of Oklahoma and the ...

“She does not suffer fools well,” said Steven Bucci, who worked with Ricardel at the Pentagon in the early 2000s while he was the military assistant to then-Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld. “She's pretty impatient with people who are unprepared or ...

Scholars widely believe FM Shah Mehmood Qureshi presented Pakistan's view point much more clearly than erstwhile government's representatives including Nawaz Sharif. In Think Tank program of Dunya News, senior analysts said speech of FM was better ...

The Conservatives face renewed criticism of failing to distance themselves from the hard-right Hungarian government after a succession of speakers failed to condemn PM Viktor Orbán during a meeting at the party conference. Communal leaders and Jewish ...

Center-right Chancellor Angela Merkel, hardline Interior Minister Horst Seehofer and Social Democrat Labour Minister Hubertus Heil reached a compromise deal that removes labor market hurdles for all non-EU citizens with job qualifications and German ...

Congress president Rahul Gandhi Tuesday accused the BJP of “brutally beating up” farmers at the Delhi border on International Day of Non-Violence and said that they cannot even air their grievances in the national capital. Gandhi's remarks came after ...