ASTYPALEA, Greece – In a small bay flanked by thyme-covered hills and a medieval castle-topped village, I floated in perfect solitude on the shimmering Aegean Sea. Last summer was my fifth year traveling to different Greek islands like far-flung Astypalea.
SIOUX FALLS, S.D. – It took two trips over state lines, navigating icy roads and a patchwork of state laws, for a 32-year-old South Dakota woman to get abortion pills last year.
WARSAW, Poland – War-ravaged Ukraine received pledges for $6.5 billion more in humanitarian aid Thursday at an international donors’ conference in Warsaw that sought to get Ukrainians urgent help while still planning for the country’s postwar reconstruction.
LONDON – The World Health Organization estimates that about 15 million people were killed either by coronavirus or by its impact on overwhelmed health systems in the past two years, more than double the official death toll of 6 million. Most of the fatalities were in Southeast Asia, Europe and the Americas.
BOGOTA, Colombia – Colombia extradited the alleged head of the feared Gulf Clan, who had been the country’s most wanted drug lord before his capture, to the United States Wednesday where he faces indictments in three federal courts.
Oath Keeper from NC pleads guilty to seditious conspiracy A North Carolina man pleaded guilty Wednesday to conspiring with other members of the far-right Oath Keepers militia group to forcefully halt the peaceful transfer of power after President Joe Biden’s 2020 electoral victory. William Todd Wilson, 44, of Newton Grove, North Carolina, is the third Oath Keepers member to plead guilty to a seditious conspiracy charge stemming from the Jan.
GLEN ROSE — A 57-year-old Granbury man sustained severe leg injuries Tuesday after his motorcycle was struck by a teenage driver in Glen Rose. According to Sgt.
Kay Trent was already attending Austin Community College while living in the San Antonio area when she decided to moved to Austin to qualify for lower tuition rates. Trent, 29, a former English as a second language teacher, sold nearly all of her belongings to move to the city about eight months ago and then was immediately confronted by the city’s high rents.