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New Portuguese Parliament elects house speaker after deal between 2 main parties

Mar. 27, 2024 13:39 PM EDT

LISBON, Portugal (AP) — Portugal’s newly-elected Parliament on Wednesday voted in a new house speaker, following a potentially important deal between the country's two main centrist parties. The chamber elected José Aguiar Branco of the Social Democrats by 160 votes in favor,...

Rationed food kept Cubans fed during the Cold War. Today an economic crisis has them hungry

Mar. 24, 2024 00:05 AM EDT

HAVANA (AP) — Like millions of other Cubans, María de los Ángeles Pozo thinks back fondly to when a government ration book fed her family everything from hamburgers, fish and milk to chocolate and beer. People would even get cakes for birthdays and weddings. The “libreta,” as...

Powerful Spanish regional leader under pressure as court investigates her partner's tax affairs

Mar. 22, 2024 10:24 AM EDT

MADRID (AP) — A Spanish judge has opened an investigation into alleged fraud and false documentation against the partner of Madrid’s powerful rightwing regional president, Isabel Díaz Ayuso, who has recently faced a wave of calls to resign over several controversies. The move...

Spain approves amnesty for Catalan separatists, but adiós to hopes it would bolster weak government

Mar. 14, 2024 13:46 PM EDT

BARCELONA, Spain (AP) — Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez has kept his part of a bargain struck last year with Catalonia’s separatists to keep him in power by pushing through a divisive amnesty bill. The legislation aims to clear hundreds of secession supporters for their roles in an...

Georgia Senate passes bill banning taxpayer, private funds for American Library Association

Feb. 29, 2024 16:49 PM EST

ATLANTA (AP) — Georgia's Senate passed a bill Thursday that would ban libraries from spending public or private funds on services offered by the American Library Association, which a Republican member of the chamber called a “Marxist and socialist” group. The measure, Senate...

Catalan separatists reject amnesty bill, highlighting the fragility of Spain's minority government

Jan. 30, 2024 14:09 PM EST

MADRID (AP) — Catalan separatist lawmakers dealt Spain’s government a blow Tuesday by voting against a hugely divisive amnesty law that was aimed at helping hundreds of their supporters who were involved in Catalonia’s unsuccessful 2017 independence bid. The most radical...

In small-town Wisconsin, looking for the roots of the modern American conspiracy theory

Jan. 21, 2024 18:25 PM EST

APPLETON, Wis. (AP) — The decades fall away as you open the front doors. It’s the late 1950s in the cramped little offices — or maybe the pre-hippie 1960s. It’s a place where army-style buzz cuts are still in fashion, communism remains the primary enemy and the decor is...

A century after Lenin's death, the USSR's founder seems to be an afterthought in modern Russia

Jan. 21, 2024 01:02 AM EST

Not long after the 1924 death of the founder of the Soviet Union, a popular poet soothed and thrilled the grieving country with these words: “Lenin lived, Lenin lives, Lenin will live.” A century later, the once-omnipresent image of Vladimir Lenin is largely an afterthought in...

Today in History: December 30, Lenin proclaims establishment of the USSR

Dec. 30, 2023 00:03 AM EST

Today in History Today is Saturday, Dec. 30, the 364th day of 2023. There is one day left in the year. Today’s Highlight in History: On Dec. 30, 1922, Vladimir Lenin proclaimed the establishment of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, which lasted...