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Brigitte Macron is facing criticism after being filmed using a slur against feminist protesters

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China's premier says higher tariffs have dealt a “severe blow” to the world economy, even as China's own trade surplus has surged past $1 trillion

3:53 AM on Tuesday, December 9

Populist billionaire Andrej Babiš has been sworn in as the Czech Republic’s new prime minister following October’s parliamentary election

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The first phase of the U.S.-brokered ceasefire between Israel and Hamas is nearly complete, after a two-month process plagued by delays and finger-pointing

11:40 PM on Monday, December 8

Honduras Attorney General Johel Zelaya has ordered authorities and asked Interpol to execute a 2023 arrest order for ex-President Juan Orlando Hernández

11:23 PM on Monday, December 8

Cuba’s top court says a former economy minister was sentenced to life in prison for espionage, in the highest-profile case against an ex-official in recent years on the island

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Mexican authorities have detained former Chihuahua Gov. César Duarte, accused of laundering money diverted from state coffers

8:31 PM on Monday, December 8

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis has designated one of the largest Muslim civil rights and advocacy groups in the U.S. a “foreign terrorist organization,” following a similar step by Texas last month

7:10 PM on Monday, December 8

A federal judge has struck down President Donald Trump’s executive order blocking wind energy projects, saying the effort to halt virtually all leasing of wind farms on federal lands and waters was “arbitrary and capricious” and violates U.S. law

4:22 PM on Monday, December 8

Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger is the latest Republican candidate for Georgia governor to attack campaign finance rules that allow Lt. Gov. Burt Jones to raise unlimited contributions

1:31 PM on Monday, December 8

A Brazilian woman with family ties to White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt will be released from immigrant detention while she fights potential deportation

9:12 AM on Monday, December 8

Democratic Rep. Jasmine Crockett has launched a campaign for the U.S. Senate in Texas

8:31 AM on Monday, December 8

A total of 100 of the schoolchildren abducted from a Nigerian Catholic school and released over the weekend have been hosted at a government-organized ceremony

12:01 AM on Monday, December 8

An Indiana state Senate committee took the first step toward enacting a new congressional map