By: Jacob Fischler The U.S. House on Thursday passed, 211-204, a bill to remove Endangered Species Act protections for the gray wolf outside Alaska. The bill, sponsored by Colorado Republican Lauren Boebert, would direct the Interior secretary to reissue a 2020 rule removing ESA protections that delisted wolves other than the Mexican wolf in the lower 48
By Ray Furlong The Kremlin’s senior negotiator in talks on ending the war in Ukraine, Kirill Dmitriev, said he was on his way to Florida for fresh meetings with US counterparts on December 20 – hours after a Russian strike on Ukraine’s Odesa region killed eight people and injured 27. The talks and attack follow another
By:Brandon Kingdollar President Donald Trump launched the opening salvo in North Carolina’s midterm elections Friday night at a speech in Rocky Mount, blasting Democratic Senate candidate Roy Cooper as “radical left” and praising Republican Michael Whatley. Speaking for more than an hour to a crowd of several hundred in Rocky Mount, Trump called Cooper a
By:RFI The findings relate to demonstrations that swept parts of Tanzania following the presidential election on 29 October. President Samia Suluhu Hassan won a second term with 98 percent of the vote, but opposition parties rejected the results, as her main challengers had been either imprisoned or barred from running, and widespread unrest broke out. Tanzania president
By Stephen Dhieu Kuach South Sudan stands at a perilous crossroads. The world’s youngest nation is sliding into yet another transition—another postponement, another recycled promise its leaders show little political will to fulfill. The Revitalized Agreement on the Resolution of Conflict in the Republic of South Sudan (R-ARCSS) was meant to end the civil war
