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Revelers attend the annual LGBTQ+ Capital Pride parade in Washington D.C., U.S., June 8, 2024.Leah Millis | ReutersCompanies that were once loud and proud in supporting LGBTQ+ community celebrations are pulling back.LGBTQ+ Pride festivals across the country have faced significant sponsorship challenges this year, with some losing corporate partners that collectively provided six-figure donations. As a result, organizations say they’ve had to modify their programming, pivot to other funding sources and reconsider their dependencies on corporate dollars.Many companies have cited economic concerns as their impetus to delay or exit partnerships with Pride groups. But LGBTQ+ group leaders also noted an…
President Trump’s standing among Ukrainians is practically on life support. But many cheered one statement he made on Saturday after meeting with President Volodymyr Zelensky, questioning why President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia would continue to pummel Ukraine as the United States is trying to broker peace talks.“It makes me think that maybe he doesn’t want to stop the war, he’s just tapping me along,” Mr. Trump wrote on Truth Social after meeting Mr. Zelensky on the sidelines of Pope Francis’ funeral.The day’s events were a victory of sorts for Mr. Zelensky and Ukraine at a critical juncture in the…
US Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem speaks at the Border Security Expo at the Phoenix Convention Center in Phoenix, Arizona, April 8, 2025. Rebecca Noble | Afp | Getty ImagesThe suspect who was arrested Saturday in the theft of Secretary Kristi Noem’s purse is in the country illegally, the U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia said in an interview with NBC News.Ed Martin said a second suspect who also is in the country illegally is being sought by law enforcement.It is not believed the suspect targeted Noem because she was the Department of Homeland Security secretary, Martin said.”There is no…
There was no president. There was no comedian. What remained at the White House Correspondents’ Association’s annual dinner on Saturday night were the journalists and the First Amendment.The stripped-down festivities were a reflection of the somber tone in Washington at the beginning of President Donald Trump’s second term, in which he has battled with the press on multiple fronts and wrested from the correspondents’ association the power to decide which outlets have the most access to Trump.Trump’s deeper involvement in politics began after then-President Barack Obama roasted the New Yorker’s presidential ambitions during the 2011 correspondents’ dinner. He skipped the…
The death toll from a massive explosion at an Iranian port rose to 25 on Sunday with more than 1,100 people injured, according to the state media.The blast Saturday evening at Iran’s largest and most important shipping port resulted in a major fire, which spread and caused destruction in the surrounding areas. Iran’s heath ministry, citing airborne toxic pollutants, declared a state of emergency in the province and instructed people to stay indoors.The port, Shahid Rajaee, is strategically located in Bandar Abbas, in southern Iran, along the Strait of Hormuz.By Sunday morning most of the fire had been contained and…
Profits at China’s industrial firms grew at a faster pace in October, the statistics bureau said on Nov. 27, 2021, providing a buffer for a faltering economy battered by soaring raw material prices. Pictured here is a worker counting cast steel pipes to be shipped aboard at Lianyungang Port in Lianyungang, Jiangsu province of China.Wang Chun | Visual China Group | Getty ImagesChina’s industrial profits returned to growth in the first quarter, official data showed on Sunday, but are likely to come under further pressure amid a trade war with the United States.With Washington’s aggressive tariffs threatening to hit China’s…
A driver plowed into a street festival honoring Canada’s Filipino population in Vancouver, British Columbia, on Saturday evening, killing “a number of people,” according to the local police.The police said they had taken one suspect into custody: the driver, a 30-year-old man from Vancouver. In a news conference overnight, local officials did not specify the number of fatalities and injured, saying only that they were multiple.They also did not address a possible motive, but said the driver had already been known to the police. Members of the crowd had subdued the man before the police got to the scene.People were…
United States Capitol building and an Iranian flag are seen at the National mall in Washington D.C., United States.Celal Gunes | Anadolu Agency | Getty ImagesIran and the United States have agreed to continue nuclear talks next week, both sides said on Saturday, though Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araqchi voiced “extreme” caution about the success of the negotiations to resolve a decades-long standoff.U.S. President Donald Trump has signaled confidence in clinching a new pact with the Islamic Republic that would block Tehran’s path to a nuclear bomb.Araqchi and Trump’s Middle East envoy Steve Witkoff held a third round of the…
The skyline of Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.Bloomberg | Bloomberg | Getty ImagesA number of people were killed and multiple others were injured in Vancouver after a driver drove into a crowd at a Filipino street festival in the western Canadian city, police said on Saturday.The driver has been taken into custody, police said in a post on social media platform X, without giving further details. Police are expected to give an update at midnight (3 a.m. ET).The incident happened shortly after 8 p.m. local time near East 41st Avenue and Fraser Street, where the Lapu Lapu Day Block Party was…
