Dems accuse Trump, Republicans of ‘weaponizing’ hunger as SNAP funding deadline looms
WASHINGTON (CN) — Democrats on Wednesday ratcheted up pressure on President Donald Trump and congressional Republicans to save millions of Americans’ access to federal food aid before the program runs out of funding this week. Top Democratic lawmakers slammed their...
France adopts consent-based rape law in the wake of landmark Gisèle Pelicot case
PARIS (AP) — France’s Senate gave its final approval on Wednesday to a bill defining rape and other sexual assault as any non-consensual sexual act, a move that comes after the landmark drugging and rape trial that shook France and turned Gisèle Pelicot into a...
Fungicide case wilts before EU judges
(CN) — Europe’s long-running fight over a controversial farm chemical drew near an end Wednesday, as the EU’s General Court backed the bloc’s 2020 decision to pull the fungicide mancozeb from the market. The judges agreed that EU regulators slipped up on some of the...
Study: Kilimanjaro’s exploding human population linked to massive biodiversity loss
(CN) — An explosion of the human population around Mount Kilimanjaro, Africa’s tallest mountain, over the past 100 years has reduced the mountain’s natural biodiversity by 75%, according to a new study published Wednesday. The study found that land-use change...
Major questions dog Trump tariff war as SCOTUS wades in
WASHINGTON (CN) — Early next month, President Donald Trump’s one-man international trade war will face scrutiny from the nine Supreme Court justices in a pivotal moment for the future of democratic governance in the United States. The...
British grooming gang inquiry in crisis before it begins
MANCHESTER, England (CN) — A British inquiry into grooming gangs, organized groups responsible for sexually exploiting children, is in crisis before it starts after four survivors resigned from the advisory panel and called for the safeguarding minister to quit. The...
Mobsters get 25-year sentences in Iran-backed murder-for-hire plot of Masih Alinejad
MANHATTAN (CN) — A Manhattan judge on Wednesday sentenced two members of the Russian mob to 25 years in prison in their botched plot to kill Iranian dissident journalist Masih Alinejad. Rafat Amirov and Polad Omarov were convicted earlier this year on charges...
Israel’s military says ceasefire is back on as death toll from overnight strikes in Gaza reaches 104
DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza Strip (AP) — Israel’s military said Wednesday that the ceasefire was back on in Gaza after it carried out heavy airstrikes overnight across the Palestinian territory that killed 104 people, including 46 children, according to local...
Hurricane Melissa leaves 25 dead in Haiti, causes widespread damage in Jamaica and Cuba
SANTIAGO DE CUBA, Cuba (AP) — Flooding from Hurricane Melissa killed 25 people in Haiti while the storm still churned across Cuba on Wednesday after leaving Jamaica with widespread damage and power outages, officials say. Jean Bertrand Subrème, mayor of the...