Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito was heard questioning whether compromise between the left and right is possible in a conversation posted on social media on Monday. The conservative justice is also heard agreeing with a woman who says the United States should return “to a place of godliness”. Liberal filmmaker Lauren Windsor posted the audio […]
Shortly after shepherding the first Boeing Starliner to a space port, NASA astronaut Bob Hines got a special assignment. Hines was one of the astronauts working in the International Space Station for the historic first berthing of an uncrewed Boeing Starliner spacecraft on May 22, 2022. Hines, who flew on SpaceX Crew-4, returned to Earth […]
A promising compromise has replaced a sprawling energy bill stalled in the South Carolina Legislature. While the South Carolina Energy Security Act will not become law this year, the state Senate on Tuesday vowed, via a joint resolution, to continue studying the state’s energy needs, aiming to pass legislation early next session. It’s a compromise […]
Israeli Defence Minister Yoav Gallant said the Israeli army would be prepared to make compromises in the event of an agreement on the release of hostages during the offensive in Rafah. “But if this option is cancelled, we will continue and deepen the operation,” Gallant said, according to his office on Tuesday evening. He said […]
The Palestinian militant group Hamas has said for more than 15 years that it could accept a two-state compromise with Israel — at least, a temporary one. But Hamas has also refused to say that it would recognize Israel or renounce its armed fight against it. For Israel and many others, especially in the wake […]
By Hyonhee Shin and Ju-min Park SEOUL (Reuters) – After rising to power by embracing uncompromising and sometimes combative politics, South Korea’s President Yoon Suk Yeol may have to rethink his signature style if he hopes to protect his legacy and party after a crushing election defeat. Yoon, who was elected in 2022 for a […]
The Tennessee Senate passed a bill Thursday that would vacate the board of Tennessee State University and leave it to Gov. Bill Lee to appoint new members. The passage of the Republican-backed bill comes amid years of scrutiny over the historically Black university’s finances and leadership and as it searches for a new president. The […]
Last week justices on the Kansas Supreme Court signaled that they find fault with the 2021 state law that makes it more difficult for groups to hold voter registration drives. The controversial law criminalizes “false representation” of an election official. In theory, this seems like it would be a good thing as it would prevent […]
Editor’s note: This story is part of Deseret Magazine’s January/February double issue addressing political polarization. In early July 1787, the delegates who gathered in Philadelphia to create a written constitution for the new nation faced the real prospect of failure. Yet by mid-September, they had produced the charter that would be the basis for our enduring success […]
(Bloomberg) — Papua New Guinea will not “compromise” its values as part of its diplomatic relationship with China, Prime Minister James Marape said in Australia, after a recent media report that the Pacific nation was considering a policing agreement with China. Most Read from Bloomberg Marape has doubled down on his country’s economic and security […]
WASHINGTON (AP) — Just before the Senate voted Wednesday to kill the border deal he spent the last four months negotiating, Oklahoma Sen. James Lankford climbed a set of marble stairs outside the chamber and joined his wife in the visitors’ gallery. As the Republican quietly watched from a floor above, briefly the outsider after […]
EU leaders reached a compromise with Hungary to approve the allocation of a macro-financial assistance package of €50 billion to Ukraine and prevent a veto from Viktor Orbán. Source: Politico, citing three European diplomats, as reported by European Pravda Details: Sources say that European leaders persuaded Orbán with three proposals, including an annual report by […]