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Jill Biden apologized Tuesday for saying Latinos are “as unique” as San Antonio breakfast tacos during a speech to the nation’s largest Hispanic civil rights and advocacy organization. “The first lady apologizes that her words conveyed anything but pure admiration and love for the Latino...

Latvia’s president said Tuesday that he supports a plan to reinstate national conscription for men, and for women on a voluntary basis. The draft could be reintroduced next year after a hiatus of over 15 years. President Egils Levits, who is the supreme military commander of Latvia — a NATO...

While most of us need to be reminded to drink more water, there is always an exception to the rule. Ever heard of hyponatremia? It’s a fancy word for water intoxication, and it happens when you drink too much water. It seems people everywhere are constantly reminding us: “You need to drink...

President Joe Biden will try to reaffirm and recalibrate U.S. relationships in the Middle East during his first trip to the region since taking office, but it won’t be easy in a corner of the world that’s asking fresh questions about the future of American influence. Biden departs late Tuesday...

The Justice Department on Tuesday named Colette Peters, the director of Oregon’s prison system, to run the federal Bureau of Prisons, turning to a reform-minded outsider as it seeks to rebuild the beleaguered agency. Peters, who championed steeply reducing the state’s inmate population in the...

Deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon during the first half of 2022 broke all records, a measure of the increasing destruction taking place under the presidency of Jair Bolsonaro. Satellite images taken between January and June show 4,000 square kilometers (1,500 square miles) of forest...

The European Central Bank said Tuesday that its president, Christine Lagarde, was targeted in an attempted cyberattack but no information was compromised. The attempt took place “recently,” the Frankfurt-based central bank for the 19 countries that use the euro said in an emailed response to a...

An area of low pressure along a stalled cold front that’s washed out over the northern Gulf is being monitored for possible development this week. The disturbance is producing only disorganized storminess now, but as it lingers along the north-central Gulf coast in the coming days, it will be a...

The U.N. Security Council approved a resolution Tuesday extending humanitarian aid deliveries to 4.1 million people in Syria’s rebel-held northwest for just 6 months in a victory for Russia. The vote was 12-0, with the United States, Britain and France, which backed a resolution for a year-long...

British health officials say there have now been 1,735 confirmed cases of monkeypox and that three-quarters of those cases are in London, according to data released on Tuesday. In a review of the outbreak published last week, Britain's Health Security Agency said there were “no signs of a...

Pope Francis said he would not live in the Vatican or return to his native Argentina if and when he ever retires, but would instead like to find a church in Rome where he could continue hearing confessions. “I’m the bishop of Rome, in this case the emeritus bishop of Rome,” Francis said in an...

Miami-Dade police are investigating after a body was found Tuesday morning inside a submerged vehicle in southwest Miami-Dade. According to Miami-Dade police, the vehicle was spotted in a canal in the area of Southwest 197th Avenue and 192nd Street. Divers entered the water a short time later...

A 500-year-old Orthodox icon that was looted from a church in the breakaway north of ethnically divided Cyprus has been returned to the island. The icon of the Enthroned Christ, which Cyprus’ Antiquities Department dates to around the end of the 15th century to the early 16th century, was...

First Lady Jill Biden came under fire after making a speech Monday in San Antonio, Texas, in which she compared the Latino community to “breakfast tacos.” Biden made the remarks during a speech at the annual conference of UnidosUS in which she was praising civil rights icon Raul Yzaguirre...

Ukraine is getting an additional $1.7 billion in assistance from the U.S. government and the World Bank to pay the salaries of its beleaguered health care workers and provide other essential services. The money coming Tuesday from the U.S. Agency for International Development, the Treasury...

Amazon is heading into its annual Prime Day sales event on Tuesday much differently than how it entered the pandemic. The company has long used the two-day event — one of its biggest all year — to lure people to its Prime membership, for which Amazon recently raised the price to $139 a year...

A former top Scientologist has a memoir coming out this fall. Mike Rinder’s “A Billion Years: My Escape From a Life in the Highest Ranks of Scientology” is scheduled for Sept. 27. Gallery Books, an imprint of Simon & Schuster, announced the book deal Tuesday. Rinder held numerous positions...

Four-time Olympic champion Mo Farah says he was illegally brought to the U.K. as a young boy and forced to care for other children before he escaped a life of servitude through running. In a new documentary, Farah says his real name is Hussein Abdi Kahin and that he was from taken from the East...

Two men were arrested last week on accusations of illegal dumping at a construction business in Medley. According to Medley police, they received a phone call Friday regarding the illegal dumping and officers met with the victim who provided them with photos of the incident. Police said they...

London's Heathrow Airport is capping daily passenger numbers for the summer and telling airlines to stop selling tickets as it steps up efforts to quell travel chaos caused by soaring travel demand and staff shortages. Britain's busiest airport said Tuesday that it's setting a limit of 100,000...