By Kanishka Singh and Nate Raymond WASHINGTON, Aug 21 (Reuters) – A U.S. judge on Friday struck down a Trump administration policy suspending the issuance of immigrant visas to applicants from 75 countries, saying that the policy exceeded Secretary of State Marco Rubio’s statutory authority. U.S. Di
BALTIMORE (AP) — The Baltimore Ravens said Friday they are aware of Rashod Bateman’s arrest in June in Georgia over a domestic violence incident and have been in contact with their receiver. The Ravens have informed the NFL, and league spokesman Brian McCarthy says the case is under review. “We noti
DENVER (AP) — DeMar DeRozan has agreed to sign a one-year contract with the Denver Nuggets worth the veteran minimum of $3.9 million, a person with knowledge of the deal said Friday. It will be DeRozan’s fifth team in his 18th season for a six-time All-Star looking for his first championship. The pe
DALLAS (AP) — The Dallas Mavericks and Klay Thompson have agreed on a contract buyout, ending a two-year tenure that was wrecked by the shocking trade of Luka Doncic. Thompson intends to sign with the Miami Heat once he clears waivers, according to a person familiar with the five-time All-Star’s pla
WASHINGTON, Aug 21 (Reuters) – The U.S. Department of Justice and TikTok have reached a $400 million settlement to resolve allegations the short-video app violated children’s online privacy. The Justice Department sued TikTok and ByteDance in 2024 for allegedly failing to protect children’s privacy,
HONG KONG (AP) — Tesla and other Chinese carmakers are making a major recall of more than 4 million vehicles over safety concerns mostly related to their door handles, according to Chinese authorities on Friday. The U.S. carmaker is recalling about 2.98 million China-made and imported EVs including
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Minnesota Timberwolves and Lynx co-owner Marc Lore has agreed to sell his controlling stake in the franchises to limited partner Marc Stad at a $4.5 billion value barely a year after his purchase was finalized, according to a person with knowledge of the deal. The person spoke Fri
By Will Dunham WASHINGTON, Aug 21 (Reuters) – The moon is, to put it mildly, an inhospitable place for people and other living organisms from Earth, with its lack of breathable air, extreme temperatures and exposure to relentless space radiation and energetic particles. That is why astronauts wear s
MYRTLE BEACH, S.C. (AP) — President Donald Trump is scheduled to travel to South Carolina on Friday to make a last-minute appeal for Sen. Darline Graham, his chosen candidate to replace her brother, the late Sen. Lindsey Graham, ahead of a Republican runoff next week. Voters will decide Tuesday whet
NEW YORK (AP) — Black nonprofit fundraisers are turning to their own communities for support this month, stressing everyday donors’ power at a time when philanthropy is growing more concentrated among the affluent and some major funders have de-prioritized diversity in their grantmaking. The BackBla
(SRN NEWS) – “Global Landscape,” a standout feature from SRN News, is a concise two-minute audio segment that delivers a snapshot of the day’s top religion-related news stories from around the world. This engaging feature provides listeners with timely insights into significant developments, cultura
(SRN NEWS)- ( ) The debate over transgenderism continues to roil the WNBA. In the Indiana Fever’s first visit to Toronto this week, there was a mix of cheers and boos when Fever guard Sophie Cunningham entered the game, and fans cheered when she missed her first free-throw attempt. Cunningham said i
(SRN NEWS)-The Football Association of Wales and Britain’s Royal Yachting Association have made changes to their eligibility rules making them based on biology so as to keep males out of the female divisions. The action stems from last year’s landmark decision by the United Kingdom’s Supreme Court t
(SRN NEWS)- Several NGOs funded by the European Union are now calling for the establishment of a universal RIGHT to physician assisted suicide. The E.U.’s Intergovernmental Working Group on the Human Rights of Older Persons is working on a new treaty and the NGOs are urging that a suicide right be a
(SRN NEWS)- If you were a Christian adolescent in America 100 years ago you probably would have seen aspects of your faith being supported in the culture generally. That’s not the case now. A new poll from the Barna Group finds 44% of Christian teens feel their beliefs are in conflict with modern cu
(SRN NEWS)-Many are killed, beaten or jailed for their faith. But how many are forced into exile? The Pew Research Center has been adding up the number of people who have been driven from their homes because of their religious beliefs. In 2023, 58 countries saw some amount of displacement caused by
HONG KONG (AP) — Chinese authorities are moving to finish cleaning up the mess left by the collapse of the Evergrande real estate empire, years after its default with some $300 billion in liabilities. A court in southern China’s Guangzhou said Friday it had accepted a bankruptcy liquidation case aga
JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) — Indonesia n authorities warned Friday they would take legal action against anyone who starts an open fire, as huge blazes on Borneo and elsewhere created a choking haze that blanketed cities and dense smoke drifted into neighboring Malaysia. The fires are concentrated on Bo
By Laurie Chen BEIJING, Aug 21 (Reuters) – Humanoid robot brains could see a breakthrough by late next year similar to the dramatic impact ChatGPT had on AI usage, the CEO of Chinese embodied AI startup ACE Robotics said on Friday. “We expect to reach the ‘ChatGPT moment’ for embodied intelligence b
N’DALI, Benin (AP) — Sabi Bera Zakari didn’t appear to care much how tall his children would grow. The farmer said he only sometimes wished they could gain more weight. “For me, height is not a problem,” Zakari said. “It’s mainly their weight that sometimes worries me.” Aboudou Salamatou, the farmer
GÁRDONY, Hungary (AP) — A fisherman disembarked from his boat in a small harbor on Lake Velence in Hungary last week, trudging up the dock plank that had become extremely steep as the water receded to record lows. Árpád Selmeci said navigating even a small fishing boat on Hungary’s third-largest lak
TOKYO (AP) — A man who killed five people by setting fire to a pachinko parlor in 2009 was hanged Friday in Japan’s first execution by Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi ‘s government as the country faces growing calls for more transparency and the abolition of capital punishment. Sunao Takami set fire t
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — The U.S. and South Korean militaries wrapped up their annual drill six days earlier than initially scheduled on Friday in a conciliatory gesture toward North Korea, though the North said the step isn’t enough to persuade it to return to talks. U.S. President Donald Trump ha
HONG KONG (AP) — Asian shares were mixed on Friday following a retreat on Wall Street as a U.S. Treasury Department plan to boost its government debt buybacks had only limited capacity to calm markets. U.S. futures edged higher. Japan’s Nikkei 225 fell 0.2% to 66,080.25. South Korea’s Kospi climbed
By Jessica Donati and Alberto Dabo DAKAR, Aug 21 (Reuters) – In the months before opposition activist and rapper Vigario Luis Balanta was beaten to death and his body dumped in a field outside the capital of Guinea-Bissau, his wife begged him to keep a low profile. Balanta’s killing in March sent sh
MOSCOW, Aug 21 (Reuters) – Russia is open to listening to new proposals on how to reach a settlement on the Ukraine conflict, a senior Russian diplomat said, but any proposals should reflect the “realities on the ground”. Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov said in an interview with media
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Michigan Senate race is drawing attention not only because of the candidates involved, but because of the voters crossing party lines. Republican candidate Mike Rogers recently held a press conference in Detroit with supporters who identify as Democrats. Their message was strai
LAS VEGAS (AP) — Jurors on Thursday heard Duane “Keffe D” Davis tell detectives in 2008 that his nephew Orlando “Baby Lane” Anderson fired the shots that killed Tupac Shakur. Davis, who said in the interview that he was also in the car with Anderson, is accused of orchestrating the 1996 killing of t
CARLISLE, Pa. (AP) — Investigators are working to understand why a small plane veered to the side while landing at a rural airport and crashed into a hovering Pennsylvania State Police helicopter, a federal official said Thursday. Aaron McCarter, investigator-in-charge with the National Transportati
SEOUL, Aug 21 (Reuters) – South Korea’s SK Hynix is considering building a memory chip plant in Japan’s Miyagi prefecture and could invest tens of trillions of won in the project, the Hankyoreh newspaper reported on Friday, citing industry sources. The newspaper said SK Hynix is pursuing the investm
