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The funeral of a renowned transgender activist in a New York cathedral elicited a denunciation of the event by a senior church official, who called the Mass a scandal within one of the preeminent houses of worship in U.S. Catholicism.

A woman has been killed and five other people were wounded in a shooting at a Waffle House restaurant in Indianapolis.

Alexei Navalny’s death has shaken the families of other political prisoners in Russia. NPR’s Mary Louise Kelly speaks with Evgenia Kara-Murza, the wife of jailed opposition figure Vladimir Kara-Murza.

In Britain, people worry as Houthi attacks on shipping routes in the Red Sea threaten supply chains for their national drink.

In Britain, people worry as Houthi attacks on shipping routes in the Red Sea threaten supply chains for their national drink.

Much of the world has spent the weekend mourning Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny. And asking why he chose to return to Russia, after he’d been poisoned, and when it was clear he was in danger. Filmmaker Daniel Roher, who

If the Russian president continues to burn through his reserves of oil and gas money, ordinary people will become a threat to his power, according to one outspoken activist. (Image credit: Ramil Sitdikov)

Ryan Raul Bañagale is the author of ‘Arranging Gershwin.’

The Biden administration says that the government would provide $1.5 billion to the computer chip company GlobalFoundries to expand its domestic production in New York and Vermont.

The Biden administration says that the government would provide $1.5 billion to the computer chip company GlobalFoundries to expand its domestic production in New York and Vermont.