Quick observation from over the weekend: If our country’s pundit class weren’t overwhelmingly white, the framing of Thursday’s debate would have revolved around Donald Trump’s overt racism and not Joe Biden’s speech pattern. Because Trump’s false and bigoted claim about immigrants taking “Black jobs” instantly sparked widespread backlash — and it has arguably been the […]
US President Joe Biden forcefully tried on Friday to quell Democratic anxieties over his unsteady showing in his debate with former president Donald Trump, as elected members of his party closed ranks around him in an effort to shut down talk of replacing him. Mr Biden’s halting delivery and meandering comments, particularly early in Thursday […]
US president Joe Biden forcefully tried on Friday to quell Democratic anxieties over his unsteady showing in his debate with former US president Donald Trump, as elected members of his party closed ranks around him in an effort to shut down talk of replacing him. Mr Biden’s halting delivery and meandering comments, particularly early in […]
The Pentagon said Monday it remains confident that it will be able to respond to ongoing Houthi attacks in the Red Sea after a Navy aircraft carrier strike group departed the region and it was unclear when another carrier group might arrive. “We still have capability in the region,” Pentagon spokesman Maj. Gen. Pat Ryder […]
ATLANTA (AP) — Four prominent former officials in Georgia, which has been a major front in disinformation over the democratic process, are joining a group that says it will try to counteract efforts to make people distrust elections. Those joining the Democracy Defense Project, whose launch was announced Tuesday, include two Georgia Republicans, former Gov. […]
Reform UK leader Nigel Farage said he would “never, ever defend” Russian president Vladimir Putin, as he ramped up his row with former British prime minister Boris Johnson. At a campaign rally in Kent on Monday, Mr Farage unveiled a blown-up poster of the i newspaper’s front page from May 10th, 2016 with the headline […]
When it comes to tax policy, Donald Trump already had a problem. His 2017 tax giveaways to the wealthy and big corporations were, by practically every measure, an expensive and unpopular failure. It’s against this backdrop that the Republican and his allies not only want to extend the tax breaks that didn’t work — adding […]
MANILA, Philippines (AP) — The United States renewed a warning Tuesday that it’s obligated to defend its close treaty ally a day after Filipino navy personnel were injured and their supply boats damaged in one of the most serious confrontations between the Philippines and China in a disputed shoal in the South China Sea, officials […]
Amanda Knox will be back in an Italian courtroom this week to defend herself against a 16-year-old slander conviction that she hopes to beat once and for all. Her chance was made possible when a European court ruled that Italy violated her human rights during a long night of questioning after the murder of her British roommate […]
Amanda Knox will be back in an Italian courtroom this week to defend herself against a 16-year-old slander conviction that she hopes to beat once and for all. Her chance was made possible when a European court ruled that Italy violated her human rights during a long night of questioning over the murder of Meredith […]
MILAN (AP) — Amanda Knox will be back in an Italian courtroom this week to defend herself against a 16-year-old slander conviction that she hopes to beat once and for all. Her chance was made possible when a European court ruled that Italy violated her human rights during a long night of questioning after the […]
Loyal customers shared their love for Mary Mahoney’s Old French House on social media over the weekend after the restaurant pleaded guilty to a felony charge of conspiring to defraud customers by passing off foreign seafood as Gulf fresh fish. Mahoney’s and co-owner Anthony “Tony” Cvitanovich are set for sentencing Sept. 12. Mahoney’s will forfeit […]