TALLAHASSEE, FLA. In a newly released recording from the day of a deadly Florida school shooting, the parents of a 17-year-old girl tell a 911 dispatcher their daughter is texting from a classroom where the door’s glass was shot out. Later, the student texts that police have arrived. After getting the rest of the message, […]

DJIBOUTI (AP) — U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson drew a distinction today between “talks” with North Korea and “negotiations,” arguing that President Donald Trump’s willingness to chat with Kim Jong Un shouldn’t be construed as anything more than that. The stunning announcement that Trump had agreed to a meeting with the North Korean leader […]

BEIRUT (AP) — Amid a lull in Damascus’ embattled rebelheld suburbs, a small team of relief workers entered the eastern Ghouta area today to deliver remaining aid left over from a mission earlier in the week, the International Committee of the Red Cross said. ICRC said a convoy of 13 trucks, including food parcels for […]

Thanks to the vast reach of social media and the prevalence of sexual misconduct in virtually every society, the #MeToo movement has proven itself a genuinely global phenomenon. Yet its impact varies widely from country to country, from potentially momentous to inconsequential. No other nation has experienced anything close to the developments in the United […]

Some examples of how the #MeToo movement has played out around the world as women seek to raise awareness about sexual misconduct and confront men who perpetrated it: JAPAN Even before #MeToo exploded in the U.S., a Japanese freelance journalist, Shiori Ito, was widely criticized after going public last year with rape allegations against a […]