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KINGSHILL, US Virgin Islands (AP) — President Joe Biden on Tuesday travelled to a place very familiar to him — the US Virgin Islands — to enjoy some downtime and warmer weather and to ring in a new…

Source: Jamaica Gleaner The family of Joseph ‘Jo Mersa’ Marley is mourning the sudden death of the reggae artiste who passed away on Tuesday. Joe Mersa, the first child of Stephen Marley and grandson…

The National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2023 signed into law on Dec. 23 by U.S. President Biden and the omnibus spending bill passed the same day by the U.S. House of Representatives…

AP: THE UNSPOKEN deal between sports fans and their favourite teams and players has been, in theory: Sure, there are billions of dollars being thrown around, but at the core, sports are supposed to be…

SAO PAULO (AP): Family members of Brazilian football great Pelé are gathering at the Albert Einstein hospital in Sao Paulo where the 82-year-old global icon has been since the end of November. Doctors…

Pele’s cancer has progressed, a statement from the Sao Paulo hospital where the 82-year-old Brazil legend is being treated has confirmed. The three-time World Cup winner has been in hospital for three…

LOS ANGELES (AP): A Los Angeles jury on Friday found rapper Tory Lanez guilty of three felonies in the 2020 shooting of hip-hop star Megan Thee Stallion that left her wounded with bullet fragments in…

NEW YORK, United States (CMC) — The New York Immigration Coalition (NYIC), an umbrella policy and advocacy organisation that represents over 200 immigrant and refugee rights groups throughout New…

WASHINGTON (AP): The United States House January 6 committee urged the Justice Department on Monday to bring criminal charges against Donald Trump for the violent 2021 Capitol insurrection, calling…

Source: Jamaica Gleaner Daniel Wheeler With gratitude for a career that has made him legendary, eight-time Olympic gold medallist Usain Bolt will be honoured by the BBC with the Lifetime Achievement…

WASHINGTON (AP): President Joe Biden told dozens of African leaders gathered in Washington that the United States is “all in on Africa’s future”, laying out billions in promised government funding and…

LIMA, Peru (AP): Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro was not invited to a summit of Western Hemisphere leaders in June. But by October, he travelled to Egypt for a conference where he joked with…

WASHINGTON (AP) — The US House passed a bill Thursday that would allow Puerto Rico to hold the first-ever binding referendum on whether to become a state or gain some sort of independence, in a…

Former England cricketer Andrew Flintoff’s son said the 45-year-old was “lucky to be alive” following a car crash during the filming of an episode of BBC’s “Top Gear” show. The 45-year-old Flintoff,…

LOS ANGELES (AP): Megan Thee Stallion took the stand in a Los Angeles courtroom Tuesday and told jurors that rapper Tory Lanez fired five shots at her feet, yelled at her to dance and wounded her as…