Despite a deadlock over funding for the agency, lawmakers left town and left Democratic and White House negotiators to try to work out a deal in their absence. By Carl Hulse Carl Hulse, who reported ...

After a life dedicated to fighting extreme poverty, Bangladesh's 85-year-old Nobel-winning microfinance pioneer Muhammad Yunus is set to end his biggest mission. Yunus will hand over the reins of ...

PRISTINA, Kosovo (AP) — Kosovo's new Parliament on Wednesday swiftly approved a new government led by Prime Minister Albin Kurti, ending a yearlong political deadlock in the Balkan country. Lawmakers ...

Stanley Banker, 68, of Richland Center died on Monday, February 2, 2026 at his home. He was born on December 8, 1957, the son of Robert and LaVonna (Beranek) Banker. Stanley enjoyed fishing. Stanley ...

France adopted a 2026 government budget on Monday following months of fraught negotiations after Prime Minister Sebastien Lecornu survived the latest in a string of no-confidence motions. Lawmakers ...

French Prime Minister Sebastien Lecornu confirmed on Monday that he would ram his budget bill through parliament without a vote using special constitutional powers, conceding it was a "partial failure ...

Lee Symcox learned banking from the ground up, starting as a 14-year-old teller in his grandfather’s Norman bank. More than five decades later, the OU grad and fourth-generation banker was inducted ...

PythoC lets you use Python as a C code generator, but with more features and flexibility than Cython provides. Here’s a first look at the new C code generator for Python. Python and C share more than ...

Pennsylvania voters will decide Tuesday in an unusually contentious election whether three Democratic justices should remain on the state Supreme Court for another 10-year term, a vote that could ...

France is a major industrial power with the world’s seventh-largest economy. So why are its government finances in such a mess? A political deadlock in parliament has left President Emmanuel Macron ...