Cardi B throws mic at fan, Americans kidnapped in Haiti and DeSantis under fire: Weekend Rundown
Vladimir Putin bids for influence with African leaders, but the showing underwhelmed. Two Americans were kidnapped in Haiti amid civil unrest. And Ron DeSantis feels the heat from fellow Republicans on Florida’s Black history standards. Here’s the biggest news you missed this weekend. Drones target Moscow ahead of parade attended المزيد
Record heat waves illuminate plight of poorest Americans who suffer without air conditioning
While frigid temperatures and high heating bills birthed the term “heat or eat,” she said, “we can now transition to AC or eat, where people are going to have to make difficult decisions.” As temperatures rise, so does the cost of cooling. And temperatures are already hotter in America’s low-income المزيد
2 Americans have been kidnapped in Haiti, organization says
A nurse and her child, both Americans, have been kidnapped amid crime and unrest in Haiti’s capital, a nonprofit connected to the woman said Saturday. The group, El Roi Haiti, said in a statement that Alix Dorsainvil, a community health nurse married to its founder and director, Sandro Dorsainvil, and the المزيد
China’s use of exit bans leaves Americans at risk of being arbitrarily detained
Sweeping “exit bans” and arbitrary detentions in China are having a chilling effect, among not just the Chinese diaspora with ties to their homeland but also international businesses increasingly anxious about operating there, Western experts and human rights watchdogs say. Under President Xi Jinping’s decadelong rule, China has become more المزيد