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KAMPALA, Uganda — Uganda’s president has signed into law anti-gay legislation supported by many in this East African country but widely condemned by rights activists and others abroad. The version of the bill signed by President Yoweri Museveni doesn’t criminalize

The headline always comes first. “It’s Harder to Be Sad When the Weather Is Nice, But This Woman Is Still Trying” is one of Reductress co-founder Sarah Pappalardo’s recent favorites. So is “Is There a Doctor on This Plane? Asks

Nobody knows how many birds were killed when SpaceX’s Starship rocket—the largest, most powerful rocket ever built—took off and blew up during its inaugural launch on April 20. And the odds are nobody will ever know. “Birds are small,” says

The children — who were aged 13, 9, 4 and 11 months when they went missing — have wandered in the jungle since a light aircraft crash in Colombia’s southeast on May 1 claimed the lives of the three adults

Japan said Monday it had been informed by Pyongyang that a satellite launch could happen as early as this week, but Tokyo warned the North may in fact be planning a sanctions-defying ballistic missile test. KCNA cited Ri Pyong Chol,

The foundation has committed roughly $400 million to strategies that include boosting diversity among asset managers

A rapid strip test in a Mexican safe-use center in the city of Mexicali near the US border confirms the presence of the synthetic opioid, which is 50 times more powerful than heroin. The result comes as no surprise. Since

Biden and McCarthy’s bumpy journey to a debt ceiling deal  Reuters Republican tries to scuttle debt limit bill in House Rules Committee as pressure grows on key swing vote  CNN US dollar’s standing will crumble without reform in Washington  South China Morning Post

“Kosovo is the heart of Serbia. Stop the violence,” 22-time Grand Slam champion Djokovic wrote in Serbian. Some 30 NATO peacekeeping soldiers defending three town halls in northern Kosovo were injured in clashes with Serbs protesters in the town of

Trump lawyer said to have been waved off searching office for secret records  The Guardian US