Dolores Huerta, who co-founded the United Farm Workers union to improve working conditions in the nation's fruit and vegetable fields and coined the phrase “Sí, se puede!” that became a widespread rallying cry, has died. She was 96. Huerta's died of cancer Wednesday at her home in Bakersfield, California, surrounded by family, said Erik Olvera, a family spokesperson. “We know that many of you around the world share in our mourning, and we will be following up on plans to recognize and a...

UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The U. N. General Assembly condemned the U. S. economic embargo of Cuba for the 34th year on Wednesday, even as Washington’s campaign to influence the outcome led to a number of countries voting against the resolution or sitting out the decision for the first time. The vote was 130-17, with 25 abstentions — a notable decrease in support from last year, when more than 160 nations supported the measure and only 12 abstained. While such resolutions at the U. N. General...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. 's broad assertions about Arab contributions to humanity's scientific and literary discoveries at a Republican campaign event in Grand Rapids, Michigan, have drawn criticism just days before midterm elections. “There's 500 million Arabs in the world and yet they don't produce science," Kennedy said on the campaign trail Monday. “They don’t win the Nobel Prize. They don’t win the Fields Prize. They don’t win...