The US is threatening to veto a United Nations resolution on combatting the use of rape as a weapon of war because of its language on reproductive and sexual health, according to a senior UN official and European diplomats. The German mission hopes…
Wall Street Journal
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Richard Rubin
– Apr 23, 2:30 AM
WASHINGTON—Vice President Mike Pence has filed three tax returns since taking office, but he hasn't publicly released any of them. As Democrats fight with President Trump about his unreleased tax returns amid a key deadline Tuesday, the vice…
America's founders believed that a free press was essential to democracy because it is the foundation of an informed, engaged citizenry. That conviction, enshrined in the First Amendment, has been embraced by nearly every American president. Thomas…
Two Reuters reporters, jailed after investigating the killing of several Rohingya Muslims, will remain in prison, Myanmar's highest court ruled Tuesday. 'They were sentenced for seven years and this decision stands, and the appeal is rejected,'…
The New York Times
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Taffy Brodesser-Akner
– Apr 23, 2:00 AM
T he pay-and-promotions lawsuit against Sterling Jewelers Inc. began the way a lot of these things begin: In 2005, Dawn Souto-Coons walked out of the jewelry store where she had been a successful assistant manager and into a local Tampa-area…
