At Hill Street Park in Frederick, Gov. Wes Moore announced $32 million for fighting child poverty in 13 counties across Maryland on Wednesday.

In a meeting with Korean priests and religious, Pope Leo expresses his hope that those attending the 2027 Seoul World Youth Day will receive the faith ...

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If America doesn't respond to the calamity that's befallen the working class, we will have Trumps as far as the eye can

PRESTWICK, United Kingdom — The British Empire ruled South Africa until 1961. Britain shipped South African resources back to the British Isles; South African workers did not receive any benefits from rare minerals and authorities displaced them from rural areas into urban expanses. This led to heavy taxation through poll tax, which alongside low pay, meant many South African families worked purely to pay tax, unable to save income. Alongside this, the 1913 Natives Land Act limited African land ownership to 7%, preventing South Africans from owning significant land. This effectively shut off the capacity to become middle class. An even worse result was preventing subsistence farming for most people, inducing a starvation crisis alongside rampant poverty. The primary reason for the act was to displace South Africans to areas with poor arability and poorly constructed townships, leaving better lands for white settlers. The share of land reserved for Black South Africans later increased to 13% through the 1936 Native Trust and Land Act. The legacy of land dispossession continues to shape poverty and inequality. Starvation remains an issue for modern-day South Africa; wasting is the most severe form of malnutrition, where death is most likely. A Johannesburg study found...

Europe hit a historic milestone as EV sales surpassed gas cars for the first time, despite geopolitical headwinds.

Joseph Lynskey was shoved into the path of an oncoming train and survived. On Monday, he thanked the firefighters who rescued him.

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The company did not learn until recently that its technology had meddled with websites for the Education and Commerce Departments and the Securities and Exchange Commission.

Attacks on Saudi cities on the Red Sea by the Iran-backed Houthi militia in Yemen have added to pressure on global oil supplies.

Tremendous progress has been made toward eclipsing the role of the just war tradition in Catholic teaching, and moving peace-building, multilateralism and nonviolence toward the center, says D.C. Card...

Wages for typical workers lag far behind productivity growth. It hasn't always been this way and does not have to be this way. These 10 charts outline the historical context of workers’ wage trajector...

A report shows that Africa has emerged as the world's fastest-growing solar market even as global growth slowed last year, driven by a 60% surge in imports of solar panels from China.

The United States joined Russia to vote against a UN General Assembly resolution condemning Russia’s war against Ukraine Monday in a stunning shift from years of US policy.

A first informal U.N. Security Council poll on Thursday showed former Costa Rican Vice President Rebeca Grynspan as the ‌early frontrunner to become the next U.N. secretary-general, followed by former...

Archbishop Christophe Z. El Kassis delivers his first speech as the new Permanent Observer of the Holy See to the United Nations in New York on the ...

A Vatican theological commission is urging Catholics to treat environmental harm as moral and spiritual wrongdoing.

The Congressional Budget Office calculated the Defense Department's Iran war cost through Aug. 1 at $38.1 billion.

US data centers will need 15 billion additional cubic feet of natural gas a day by 2035, more than the entire gas consumption of every country on Earth except China, Russia, Iran and the US itself. Fifteen billion cubic feet a day. That's how much more natural gas American data centers will burn every day by 2035, according to a new forecast from BloombergNEF published this week, and it answers a question the industry has been dodging for years: how much natural gas will AI data centers actually use by 2035? A lot more than anyone assumed even nine months ago. BloombergNEF's own December forecast put that number at 6.9 billion cubic feet a day. Nine months later, it more than doubled. The revision, reported by Bloomberg News on September 14, reflects how fast AI compute demand has outrun every previous estimate of how much power it would need. Put the number in context. It gets uncomfortable fast. Fifteen billion cubic feet a day is more gas than Germany's entire economy burns in a year, roughly 9 billion cubic feet a day across every furnace, factory and power plant in the country. It's more than the total gas consumption of...

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The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday kept in place a lower court’s order blocking President Donald Trump’s embattled plan to place new restrictions on mail ballots for this year’s midterm elections.

A ProPublica report says a Russian oligarch with ties to Vladimir Putin helped fund Donald Trump Jr.’s wedding celebration in the Bahamas. According to the report, Umar Kremlev, a Russian businessman ...

Japan is facing its most severe security environment since World War II as three potential adversaries in East Asia – China, Russia and North Korea – ramp up military activities in the region, the cou...

The Register of British Slave-traders compiles and presents information on all known slave-traders in Britain who invested in the trafficking of captive Africans from 1563 to 1807.