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NEW YORK—When Brazil’s President Luíz Inacio “Lula” da Silva, replaced Jair Bolsinaro, the “Donald Trump of the Global South,” as president of his country, the Biden administration had high hopes of being able to work with the newly-elected president.

NEW YORK—The United Nations General Assembly opened on Tuesday with the hope that it could move the world closer to an end to war and to building the sustainability needed to diminish the dangers of global warming.

WASHINGTON—Hoping to keep voters’ eyes off their battle over whether to keep the government going or not beyond September 30, the House’s ruling Republicans have come up with a diversion: A budget blueprint that threatens Social Security.

WASHINGTON—Bowing to the radical right Trumpites of the so-called Freedom Caucus and the corrupt corporate class who backs them—House Speaker Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., commissioned three House committees to open a joint impeachment inquiry against Democratic President Joe Biden.

Poland’s Law and Justice Party, since it took control, has banned abortion rights, limited other women’s health care, attacked LGBTQ rights, banned opposition political groups, shut down numerous trade union locals, instituted education policies that make Ron DeSantis’ policies in Florida look...

Donald Trump tried hard in New York before the first of his now four indictments to turn out a huge Jan. 6-type crowd of right-wing protesters defending him against prosecution.

Trump does not have to physically show up at the Republican presidential debate Wednesday night to be well-represented on that platform. Each and every one of the candidates who will be there stands for essentially the same fascistic and criminal policies promoted by the ex-president, almost making...

WASHINGTON—Despite judges’ warnings of potential fines and jail terms, including for his lawyers and adherents, former Oval Office occupant Donald Trump and his followers are threatening a judge, plus prosecutors and grand jurors involved in bringing Trump and his schemers to justice.

WASHINGTON—Even before 49 cars in its mile-and-a-half-long freight train derailed, crashed and produced an environmental and physical disaster in East Palestine, Ohio, Norfolk Southern railroad had rampant safety problems, a new Federal Railroad Administration report says.

WASHINGTON—An Atlanta grand jury’s indictment of former Oval Office occupant Donald Trump and 18 co-conspirators is the most wide-ranging of all the cases against the former White House denizen, a panel of progressive leaders, including a legal expert, say.