The African nation of Sudan is no stranger to conflict. Since Sudan declared independence from the U.K. and Egypt in 1956, there have been too many insurgencies and civil conflicts to count. One of the deadliest ended in 2005, when Khartoum signed a deal with Sudan’s People Liberation Movement/Army to grant the South Sudanese the ability to secede and create their own state. The war in Darfur in the early 2000s claimed hundreds of thousands of lives and turned former Sudanese dictator Omar Hassan al Bashir into an international outcast.
Increasingly paranoid about dominating its Asia-Pacific neighbors, China is again unleashing its "wolf warrior" diplomatic strategy. Centered on aggressive rebuttals of what Beijing regards as affronts to its core interests, the wolf warrior strategy has been relatively dormant over the past 18 months. Chinese leader Xi Jinping appeared to recognize that it was doing more harm than good.
The Minnesota legislature on Friday passed a set of bills to bolster protections for gender-affirming health care and abortion and make conversion therapy practices for LGBTQ minors and vulnerable adults illegal. The measures now head to Democratic Gov. Tim Walz, who is expected to sign them into law. Minnesota Democrats have pushed an ambitious slate...
People in Vermont that want to get married have to be at least 18 starting in July, according to a new law signed on Thursday. Republican Gov. Phil Scott's signature officially made the Freedom and Unity State the eighth in the country to end child marriage. Under current law, Vermonters aged 16 and 17 can...
Former President Trump has marginally extended his lead over Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R), his presumed chief White House contender, in the 2024 Republican presidential primary, according to a new Harvard CAPS/Harris Poll shared exclusively with The Hill. The poll found that 55 percent of respondents who identified as Republicans said they would back Trump...
The Supreme Court of the United States has continued to delay a decision on a Texas trial judge’s ruling concerning the FDA’s approval of mifepristone. But make no mistake, SCOTUS is in trouble.
Twitter's move to remove thousands of legacy verification check marks Thursday resulted in chaos as users were left scrambling to prove their authenticity in the face of fake impersonation accounts emerging. Twitter began to remove thousands of its iconic legacy verification check marks on Thursday, nearly three weeks after CEO Elon Musk initially planned to...
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) is suddenly facing a rash of attacks within the nascent GOP presidential field, with former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie (R) seeking to quash his candidacy before it even starts. Christie, who is openly mulling a 2024 bid of his own after ending far back in the pack during the...