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BUCHAREST—Romanian police were investigating on Sunday death threats made against award-winning film and theatre star Maia Morgenstern and her children at the start of Passover celebrations. Morgenstern, who played the figure of Mary in Mel Gibson’s The Passion of the Christ and runs the Jewish State Theatre in Bucharest, published an email she received in […]

Two Republican senators are asking the directors of the FBI, the U.S. Secret Service and the Bureau of Alcohol Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives for details of their alleged investigation into a handgun that belonged to Hunter Biden that was reported missing in 2018. In their letters, Sens. Chuck Grassley and Ron Johnson refer to a

VANCOUVER—Police are working to determine the motive of a series of stabbings that left a woman dead and six others injured inside and around a public library in North Vancouver, B.C., on Saturday. Sgt. Frank Jang of the Integrated Homicide Investigation Team said a suspect in his 20s was in custody. The man has had

A major EU-China investment deal has been thrown into question after China resorted to aggressive diplomacy in response to EU sanctions. The European Union, the United States, the UK, and Canada on March 22 unveiled coordinated sanctions against Chinese officials responsible for the Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP) oppressive policy in China’s far-western Xinjiang region. The

The White House on Sunday confirmed it would allow members of the media to access border facilities that are being used to house unaccompanied minors along the U.S.-Mexico border. In an interview on Fox News, White House press secretary Psaki faced questions about the lack of access to border facilities in the midst of a surge

The city of Baltimore is permanently ending the prosecution of crimes described as low-level and non-violent, including prostitution and drug possession. Officials late last week said the adoption comes after a one-year period of trying the criminal justice approach was successful, as crimes across the board decreased. “Clearly the data suggests that there is no

Commentary Given the Left’s desire to ban some of the works of Dr. Seuss, it is not surprising that its members also seem intent on discounting the lessons of another classic children’s story. In the Aesop’s fable, “The Goose that Laid the Golden Eggs,” a farmer has a goose that lays a golden egg every day.

PARIS—The number of patients with coronavirus in French intensive care units rose on Saturday to a new high for this year, increasing the pressure to impose new restrictions that President Emmanuel Macron says will probably be needed. France had 4,791 ICU patients being treated for COVID-19, up from 4,766 on Friday, health ministry data showed.

MOSCOW—Organisers of this year’s Eurovision Song Contest have disqualified Belarus, ruling that its entry song—by a band whose lyrics have been deemed in the past to mock anti-government protests—is in breach of competition guidelines. Earlier this month the organisers rejected an entry by Belarus, which has been gripped by political crisis since August last year,

LONDON—Britain is taking another small step out of lockdown as it looks nervously at a new virus surge inundating its European neighbours. With UK coronavirus vaccination rates outstripping those of European Union nations, Prime Minister Boris Johnson is easing the stark “stay at home” message that has curtailed everyday life—and kept the virus in check—for