• Associated Press

    Mexico's poorest receiving less government funds under president who brought poor to the fore

    Suddenly, Mexico’s poorest citizens were receiving a smaller portion of the spending and less money than under previous administrations. Meanwhile, some of Mexico’s wealthiest started getting money they didn’t really need. The shift owed largely to a massive “universal” pension benefit for seniors that López Obrador launched on a chilly January day outside Mexico City in 2019, just weeks after taking office.

  • BBC

    Earth-sized planet discovered by researchers

    Scientists say Gliese 21 b has an Earth-like temperature and humans could theoretically survive.

  • The Canadian Press

    Top Russian military officials are being arrested. Why is it happening?

    It began last month with the arrest of a Russian deputy defense minister. Then the head of the ministry’s personnel directorate was hauled into court. This week, two more senior military officials were detained. All face charges of corruption, which they have denied. The arrests began after President Vladimir Putin began his fifth term and shuffled his ally, longtime Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu, into a new post. It immediately raised questions about whether Putin was reasserting control over