Syrian President Bashar al-Assad’s media adviser Luna al-Shibl died on Friday three days after being injured in a car crash, Assad’s office announced. “The presidency of the Syrian Arab Republic mourns the death of the adviser Luna al-Shibl, who passed away today after a serious car accident”, it said in a statement. “She served in […]
WASHINGTON (AP) — White House chief of staff Jeff Zients urged people during an all-staff meeting on Wednesday to tune out the “noise” and focus on the task of governing as senior aides scramble to contain the political fallout from President Joe Biden’s disastrous debate performance. Even as Zients acknowledged that the days since the […]
A new report details how Biden had long been in a cocoon before his disastrous debate performance. Top aides reportedly have to be careful about what they tell Biden — for fear of setting him off. “It’s very difficult, and people are scared shitless of him,” said a top aide. In the wake of President […]
British prime minister Rishi Sunak repeatedly refused to say whether he told his parliamentary aide about the date of the UK election, as the Metropolitan Police said they were investigating a “small number” of bets on the July 4th poll. Police are examining whether offences beyond cheating using inside information had been committed, while the […]
WASHINGTON (AP) — Secretary of State Antony Blinken announced Monday that one of his most senior aides is leaving for a top job with Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin and will be replaced by a brother of President Joe Biden’s national security adviser. State Department counselor Derek Chollet, a veteran of national security positions in Democratic […]
Coordinator to Pakistan’s prime minister on climate change Romina Khurshid Alam has called on all provincial governments to adopt Punjab province’s plastic ban policy. This initiative aims to steer the country towards becoming plastic-free. Khurshid Alam’s appeal comes after Punjab chief minister Maryam Nawaz recently implemented a ban on the production and sale of plastic […]
NEW YORK — One of Sen. Bob Menendez’s former top aides testified Tuesday that the senator was uniquely focused on a criminal case against a real estate developer now accused of bribing him. Michael Soliman, a key political adviser to the senator for over a decade, said the only criminal case Menendez ever asked him […]
By Gram Slattery, David Shepardson and Joey Roulette WASHINGTON (Reuters) -U.S. Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump and Jeff Zients, U.S. President Joe Biden’s White House chief of staff, on Thursday met with top American business leaders in Washington as they seek to curry favor with corporate America months ahead of elections, two sources said. Trump […]
Steve Bannon, the relentless right-wing operator and provocateur who’s dedicated his career to advancing the cause of an American version of fascism, has been ordered by a federal judge to serve out his four-month prison conviction. The sentence is from years ago when a jury convicted Bannon on two counts of contempt of Congress, but […]
NEW YORK — One of Mayor Eric Adams’ top aides, Tim Pearson, was named in a third lawsuit Thursday for allegedly retaliating against a staffer who corroborated accusations of sexual harassment against Pearson. NYPD Lt. George Huang accused Pearson — along with the city, the NYPD’s Chief of Department Jeffrey Maddrey and another police official […]
Hunter Biden’s wife, Melissa Cohen Biden, got into a heated confrontation with a former Trump White House aide during a brief recess at her husband’s trial on federal gun charges, according to an NBC News report. In the hallway of the J Caleb Boggs Federal Building on Tuesday, Melissa allegedly confronted Garrett Ziegler – who […]
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Wisconsin Attorney General Josh Kaul filed felony forgery charges Tuesday against two attorneys and an aide who helped submit paperwork falsely saying that former President Donald Trump had won the battleground state in 2020. The charges were filed against attorneys Kenneth Chesebro, 62, and Jim Troupis, 70, and former Trump aide […]