Dec. 26—The state Independent Redistricting Commission will meet Thursday, Dec. 28. According to the agenda, the commission will discuss personnel and vendor contracts. Karen Blatt, co-executive director, said the commission will discuss the contracts it has with a line-drawing consultant and a Voting Rights Analysis expert. The commission will not discuss new lines and will […]
(Bloomberg) — Kim Jong Un is expected to preside over a major policy-setting meeting with renewed power owing to advances by North Korea’s military and economy that would allow him to rebuff US pressure to wind down his nuclear arms programs. Most Read from Bloomberg Kim’s ruling Workers’ Party of Korea will hold a plenary […]
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. – Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders and the Arkansas Board of Corrections are not letting up taking big swings at each other. It has now been more than a week of legal battles between the board and the state- all stemming from the governor and secretary of correction’s push to add more prison […]
BUDAPEST, Hungary (AP) — Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán says he has accepted an invitation from Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenksyy to hold a bilateral meeting in the future, a potential first between the two leaders since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in February 2022. Speaking at an annual international news conference in Budapest on Thursday, Orbán […]
On January 17-18, Brussels will host a meeting of the highest military body of NATO, the Military Committee in Chiefs of Defence Session. The event will include the first meeting of the NATO-Ukraine Council held on the level of commanders of the armed forces. Source: This was reported by the press service of the Alliance, […]
Kansas City Mayor Quinton Lucas stepped off an airplane from Dallas on Tuesday evening with an optimistic message for the future of the Country Club Plaza under new ownership. “It was, frankly, one of the best meetings I’ve had with potential economic development entities during my time as mayor or councilman,” Lucas said during a […]
A county commissioner in Ohio criticized the county sheriff for conditions at the jail. Then the sheriff’s officers arrested her. Now, Niki Frenchko, the Trumbull County commissioner, is suing the sheriff and his department, the county, the deputies and the other commissioners. Frenchko is the only woman and only Republican on the three-person board of […]
As Hungary opposed the EU’s multi-annual financial framework that included 50 billion euros ($55 billion) for Ukraine, the European Commission will ensure an “operational solution” to the issue by the next meeting, Commission President Ursula von der Leyen said during a press briefing on Dec. 15. Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban announced earlier that he […]
A Ukrainian village councilor detonated three grenades at a meeting. CBS News reports that the explosion left 26 people injured. The incident, which took place on Friday morning in Keretsky, Ukraine, was live-streamed on Facebook. The clip, released by the country’s national police also via Facebook, comes from that livestream. In the video, a man […]
Prominent Hmong comedian and activist Tou Ger Xiong was found dead on Dec. 11 in the Colombian city of Medellin. He was reportedly killed after he went to meet a woman he’d been chatting with online, according to Colombian authorities. His murder is the latest in a string of sometimes deadly robberies aimed at mostly […]
University of Pennsylvania President Liz Magill’s job is increasingly at risk as university donors, lawmakers in both parties, alumni and Jewish groups have piled on criticism after her disastrous congressional testimony on antisemitism this week. The Penn Board of Trustees will hold a meeting on Sunday at 5 p.m., the Philadelphia Inquirer reported, where Magill’s […]
Israeli hostage’s parents call for new truce Israeli hostage’s parents call for new truce 03:21 Tel Aviv — With Israeli forces pushing south in Gaza, plunging the war with Hamas into some of the most intense fighting to date, the families of Israeli hostages are growing increasingly desperate over the fate of their loved ones […]