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Brazil's currency drops to weakest level yet as Lula's fiscal measures debated
SAO PAULO (AP) — Brazil’s real on Wednesday fell to its weakest level against the dollar since the currency was introduced in 1994, undercut by investors' frustration with President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva's efforts to rein in government spending. A bill backed by Lula that...
A Catholic family's answer to opposing abortion: adopt, foster and vote
SUNBURY, Ohio (AP) — For the Young family in rural Sunbury, Ohio, activism begins at home. The conservative Catholic family chooses to live their anti-abortion beliefs through adoption, foster-parenting and raising their children to believe in the sanctity of life. They're also...
Moscow bans adoption of Russian children to countries that allow gender transition
Russian President Vladimir Putin on Saturday signed into law a bill banning adoption of Russian children by citizens of countries where gender transitioning is legal. The Kremlin leader also approved legislation that outlaws the spread of material that encourages people not to have...
Safer buildings vs more housing: How new building codes may impact Hawaii
A month after wildfires ravaged Maui in August 2023, Gov. Josh Green issued an emergency proclamation to postpone the adoption of any new building codes that might exacerbate a housing shortage that had just gotten worse. The governor’s office is now moving to fast-track adoption...
Russian lawmakers endorse bill to ban adoptions by gender-transition countries
MOSCOW (AP) — Russia’s upper house of parliament on Wednesday endorsed a bill banning adoption of Russian children by citizens of countries where gender transitioning is legal. The Federation Council also approved bills that outlaw the spread of material that encourages people...
Russian parliament advances bill to ban adoptions by gender-transition countries
MOSCOW (AP) — Russia's lower house of parliament on Tuesday passed final reading of a bill to ban adoption of Russian children by citizens of countries where gender transitioning is legal. The chamber, the State Duma, also approved a measure calling for banning the spread of...
Thousands of children adopted by Americans are without citizenship. Congress is unwilling to act
HENDERSON, Nev. (AP) — The 50-year-old newspaper was turning yellow and its edges fraying, so she had it laminated, not as a memento but as proof — America made a promise to her, and did not keep it. She pointed to the picture in the corner of her as a little girl in the rural...
Thousands were adopted to the US but not made citizens. Decades later, they risk being deported
The United States has brought hundreds of thousands of children from abroad to be adopted by American families. But along the way it left thousands of them without citizenship, through a bureaucratic loophole that the government has been aware of for decades, and hasn’t fixed. Some...
Adoptee deported from the US over lack of citizenship criticizes South Korea and agency
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — Adam Crapser, an adoptee who was deported to South Korea in 2016 because his American parents never secured his citizenship, delivered a scathing denunciation of the Korean government and his adoption agency in a Seoul appeals court on Wednesday. The...
A South Korean adoptee needed answers about the past. She got them — just not the ones she wanted
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — Rebecca Kimmel sat in a small room, stunned and speechless, staring at the baby photo she had just unearthed from her adoption file. It was a black-and-white shot of an infant, possibly taken at an orphanage in Gwangju, the South Korean city where Kimmel...
