A day after Nikki Haley announced that she will vote for Donald Trump this fall — and again urged him to appeal to her supporters — the former president spoke for more than 90 minutes on Thursday and didn’t mention her once. It’s as though Haley — despite her still-sizable constituency, which he will need […]
Unlike other universities this weekend, the University of Kentucky’s commencements on Friday and Saturday went off without a hitch. UK conferred 5,736 degrees and waved goodbye as 4,300 students walked in the annual May commencement ceremonies. Students in the class of 2024 had an unusual college experience, beginning their freshman year in the midst of […]
BRIGHTON, Colo. (AP) — Republican activists gathered in a school lunchroom last month to hear political pitches from candidates and agreed on the top issue in the Denver suburbs these days: immigration. The area has been disrupted by the arrival of largely Venezuelan migrants coming north through Mexico, they said. Virtually everyone in the meeting […]
(Bloomberg) — The US bond market’s recovery was cut short by a Federal Reserve official’s mere mention of the possibility of an interest-rate increase. Most Read from Bloomberg In response to a question during a conference in Washington, New York Fed President John Williams on Thursday said another rate hike isn’t his base case. But […]
By Doina Chiacu and Nathan Layne (Reuters) -Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump said on Monday that abortion laws should be determined by U.S. states, stopping short of proposing a national ban and choosing a more moderate stance ahead of a November election. In a video posted on his social media platform, the former president said […]
Some call AI a “revolution” akin to the development of the internet, or a modern-day “gold rush” with potential to boost productivity and corporate earnings. But others have labeled the technology nothing more than a “narrative” that investors are clinging to as stocks climb ever higher, a justification for unwarranted price appreciation. Fortune 500 companies […]
A video of a bilateral meeting between Singaporean and Indonesian leaders in 2022 has resurfaced with a false claim that it shows Singapore agreeing to return billions of dollars of assets parked by corruption suspects in the city-state to Indonesia. In the meeting, Singaporean Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong and Indonesian President Joko Widodo signed […]
A sin bin trial featuring blue cards was conspicuous by its absence as football’s lawmakers set out plans to improve player behaviour on Saturday. The PA news agency understands blue cards were set to be part of a trial of sin bins at higher levels of the sport, with details of the trial having been […]
The world “needs a Republican back in the White House”, Liz Truss has told a right-wing conference in America, but stopped short of directly endorsing Donald Trump. In a speech to the Conservative Political Action Conference (Cpac) near Washington DC, the former prime minister said conservatives being in power was the only way to “save […]
Russian President Vladimir Putin has called for united support of his army in his annual new year address, without explicitly referring to the war he is waging in Ukraine. The Kremlin leader hailed his soldiers as “heroes… at the forefront of the fight for truth”. He also referenced economic issues, a key topic for many […]
Republican presidential contender Nikki Haley declined on Wednesday night to say that slavery was one of the main causes of the US Civil War, an omission that drew swift rebukes from Democrats and some of her opponents. Ms Haley, who served as US ambassador to the United Nations under former president Donald Trump, was asked […]
By Gram Slattery WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Republican presidential contender Nikki Haley declined on Wednesday night to say that slavery was one of the main causes of the U.S. Civil War, an omission that drew swift rebukes from Democrats and some of her opponents. Haley, who served as U.S. ambassador to the United Nations under former […]