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More than two dozen people, mostly journalists, were detained Saturday at a protest in central Moscow, as wives and other relatives of Russian servicemen mobilized to fight in Ukraine called for their return, according to independent Russian news reports. The relatives gathered to lay flowers at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier, just outside the Kremlin walls. They marked 500 …

LAS VEGAS, Nevada (AP) — Facing a cash crunch and harsh criticism from a faction of far-right conservatives, Republican National Committee Chairwoman Ronna McDaniel on Friday called for the party to unite behind the goal of defeating President Joe Biden. McDaniel spoke at the RNC’s winter meeting in Las Vegas behind closed doors on Friday, addressing a gathering of state …

CAMBRIDGE, Mass. (AP) — Harvard University’s Hasty Pudding Theatricals roasted Barry Keoghan, best known for his roles in “Dunkirk,” “The Killing of a Sacred Deer,” “Eternals,” and “The Banshees of Inisherin,” on Friday with its 2024 Man of the Year Award. Keoghan, who also starred in the comedy psychological thriller “Saltburn” and the World War II drama series “Masters of …

WASHINGTON (AP) — To his supporters, Alejandro Mayorkas is a thoughtful, driven secretary — a “Boy Scout” — who brings a prosecutor’s tenacity and his personal understanding of the immigrant experience in America to running his sprawling agency. To his detractors, he personifies everything that has gone wrong at the U.S.-Mexico border and is responsible for allowing hundreds of thousands …

ATLANTA (AP) — Georgia sued the Biden administration Friday to try to keep the state’s new health plan for low-income residents, which is the only Medicaid program in the country with a work requirement, running until 2028. Georgia Pathways launched in July and is set to expire at the end of September 2025. The suit filed in U.S. District Court …

CIUDAD DE GUATEMALA (AP) — La Unión Europea anunció el viernes que impuso sanciones a la fiscal general de guatemalteca, Consuelo Porras, por socavar la democracia, el Estado de derecho y la transferencia pacífica del poder en el país centroamericano. La sanción también alcanza al secretario general de la fiscalía, Ángel Pineda; al jefe de la Fiscalía Especial Contra la …

ATENAS (AP) — Policías y estudiantes se enfrentaron el jueves en la capital griega tras una manifestación en contra de los planes del gobierno de permitir que haya universidades privadas. Los manifestantes atacaron los cordones policiales, prendieron fuego a contenedores de basura y arrojaron piedras contra policías antimotines cerca del Parlamento, y posteriormente durante enfrentamientos que se extendieron a las …

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Graffiti has risen to high art in downtown Los Angeles: Taggers have covered at least 27 stories of an unfinished high-rise development. The vandalism is the latest twist in the saga of the three-tower project across the street from where the Grammy Awards will be hosted Sunday, the Crypto.com Arena — which is near the Los …

BANGKOK (AP) — Los mercados bursátiles en China cerraron a la baja el viernes a pesar de una serie de medidas para apuntalar el debilitado sector inmobiliario, al tiempo que el Fondo Monetario Internacional (FMI) pronosticó la desaceleración de su economía en los próximos años. En su informe, el FMI prevé que la economía crecerá a una tasa anual de …

MEXICO CITY (AP) — The money that Mexican migrants send home to their relatives grew by 7.6% in 2023, to reach a record $63.3 billion for the year, Mexico’s central bank said Thursday. The money transfers, known as remittances, have been booming since the coronavirus pandemic, but the rate of growth continued to cool somewhat in 2023. In 2022, remittances …