The annual meeting of the United Nations General Assembly opened this week in New York City. On its opening day, President Trump in his address to all 193 U.N. member states threatened to annihilate ...

Brazil’s President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva used his address at the U.N. General Assembly to warn against attempts to interfere in Brazil’s upcoming election scheduled for October 4. According to the ...

In labor news, DoorDash has agreed to pay $131.5 million in a historic settlement reached with New York City that will impact more than 260,000 workers who were underpaid or not paid by the food ...

World leaders are in New York this week for the United Nations General Assembly, which coincides with Climate Week. It comes after months of climate-fueled extreme weather around the world, including ...

Reading the World is a remarkable new documentary about Paulo Freire, the acclaimed Brazilian educator whose revolutionary approach to teaching connected literacy to critical thinking and democratic ...

As the United Nations General Assembly opens in New York, we speak with senior Cuban diplomat Carlos Fernández de Cossío, who says the Trump administration is seeking to “asphyxiate the people of Cuba ...

In Yemen, the U.N. Refugee Agency warns that up to 230,000 people could be displaced if fighting continues between Saudi-backed Yemeni government forces and Iran-backed Houthi militias. On Monday, ...

ABC, CBS, Fox News and NBC — suspended their coverage of President Trump Monday after he expelled CNN from the White House TV press pool. The five TV networks issued a joint statement saying, “The ...

Paramount has reached a settlement to resolve an antitrust case with a dozen U.S. states that sued to stop the Hollywood giant’s $111 billion takeover of Warner Bros. The Writers Guild of America also ...

In Illinois, authorities are investigating a case in which a U.S. citizen was hospitalized with injuries on Sunday after he ...

Here in New York, Senator Bernie Sanders delivered a major foreign policy speech Monday evening at the historic Riverside Church in Harlem, warning that the rapid rise of wealth inequality around the ...

Ahead of the midterm elections, activist and writer Bill McKibben says he has been traveling across the United States with Third Act, the environmental group he founded to harness the power of seniors ...