North and South Korea have adopted different approaches to dealing with their falling birth rates and impending population decline. North Korea’s fertility rate, or number of children expected per woman’s lifetime, is 1.78 births per woman, according to projections by the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA). South Korea is at 0.72, the lowest in the … Read more
An Israeli attack on a school in northern Gaza on Saturday killed at least 22 people, according to the Gaza Health Ministry, while the Israeli army said it targeted a Hamas command center in what was a school. Another 30 were injured in the strike at the school in the Zeitoun area of Gaza City, … Read more
Kamala Harris has accepted an invitation from CNN to participate in another debate with Donald Trump on October 23, her campaign said on Saturday. “Donald Trump should have no problem accepting this debate. It is the same format and setup as the CNN debate he attended and said he won in June, when he praised … Read more
BBC/Getty The tenor and tone of the 2024 presidential race is back at the fore after Republican nominee Donald Trump was once again targeted in what the FBI called an apparent assassination attempt. He and his partner, JD Vance, blamed their Democratic opponents for what they characterized as their inflammatory language. Republican candidates and their … Read more
IE 11 is not supported. For an optimal experience visit our site in another browser. Now play Women accuse late Harrods owner of sexual abuse 05:47 UP NEXT The first commander of Hezbollah killed during the Israeli attack in Beirut 04:15 Harrods boss Al Fayed ‘was a monster’ says woman who accused him of sexual … Read more
A California firefighter has been arrested on suspicion of arson in a series of small fires that have burned through wine country in recent weeks, officials said Friday. Robert Hernandez, 38, was accused of setting five fires between Aug. 15 and Sept. 14 while off-duty, the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection, or Cal … Read more
Nearly one-third of US military veterans receive disability pay from the Department of Veterans Affairs, an all-time high. Just last year, the volume of new veterans’ compensation claims “exceeded even our most aggressive projections,” Joshua Jacobs, undersecretary for benefits at the VA, told lawmakers this week. Why we wrote this Congress scrambled to pass an … Read more
Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador partly blamed the United States on Thursday for the increase in cartel violence terrorizing the northern state of Sinaloa that has left at least 30 dead in the past week. Two warring factions of the Sinaloa cartel clashed in the state capital of Culiacan in what appears to be … Read more