WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama is asking Congress for more than $1.8 billion in emergency funding to help fight the Zika virus. In an announcement Monday, the White House said the money would be used to expand mosquito control programs, speed development of a...
WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — US President Barack Obama yesterday cautioned against populist appeals based on fear, in an annual religious message laden with campaign politics. “Fear does funny things,” Obama told a national prayer breakfast, which comes in the midst of a bitter election campaign...
LOS ANGELES -- A decade ago, Kobe Bryant torched Sam Mitchell's Toronto Raptors for 81 points. Ever since, Mitchell has smoldered, boiling over at the very mention of Bryant's name or that game, a subject that has been broached innumerable times, the sorest of sore...
[caption id="attachment_9333" align="alignleft" width="300"] Actor and comedian Bill Cosby (C) arrives with attorney Monique Pressley (R) for his arraignment on sexual assault charges at the Montgomery County Courthouse in Elkins Park, Pennsylvania December 30, 2015.[/caption] Lawyers for disgraced comedian Bill Cosby on Tuesday will urge a...
GENEVA, Switzerland (AFP) – Brazil warned pregnant women Monday to stay away from the Summer Olympics after the World Health Organization declared an international emergency over the Zika virus, blamed for causing a surge in brain-damaged babies. The UN health body said that a rise in...