A moderate earthquake hit the ocean floor Friday morning off the coast of Vancouver Island, the largest of more than a dozen quakes over the past two days about 300 miles west of Bellingham. Friday’s quake measured at magnitude 5.7 and was recorded at 9:34 a.m. about a mile below the ocean surface and at […]
By Lucia Mutikani WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. job growth likely slowed to a still-healthy pace in June, with the unemployment rate holding steady at 4%, increasing the chances that the Federal Reserve will be able to tame inflation without tipping the economy into recession. The Labor Department’s closely watched employment report on Friday is also […]
One of the leaders of a group of moderate and conservative House Democrats added to President Joe Biden’s political woes on Tuesday, saying in an op-ed that he wasn’t buying the idea a second Donald Trump term would be a “unique threat” to American democracy. “I reject the premise. Unlike Biden and many others, I […]
Iran’s old moderate candidate in the race for president will go into a run-off with a hardline former nuclear negotiator amid record-low voter turnout. Masoud Pezeshkian, a former surgeon, won the most votes in the election on Friday, securing 10.4 million of the 24.5 million ballots cast, or 42 per cent. His campaign has been […]
Former Iranian president Hassan Rowhani has called for voters to support the only moderate candidate standing in the country’s forthcoming presidential election. Masoud Pezeshkian is capable of removing the shadow of sanctions, Rowhani said in a video message on Wednesday. He described Pezeshkian as loyal and honest. Rowhani was president of Iran from 2013 to […]
During Iran’s election campaign, the moderate presidential candidate Masoud Pezeshkian has criticized the country’s strict headscarf policy for women. “I promise that I will stop this behaviour that is happening to our daughters and sisters on the streets,” the former health minister said in front of hundreds of supporters in Tehran on Sunday. Recently, the […]
French President Emmanuel Macron has called for moderate politicians from the left and the right to regroup to defeat the far right in general elections. Mr Macron, a pro-business centrist, said he wants “men and women of goodwill who were able to say ‘no’ to extremes to join together to be able to build a […]
The moderate Iranian presidential candidate Masoud Pezeshkian has expressed cautious criticism of the repressive measures used to enforce Iran’s headscarf laws. Today, women are penalized because their clothing does not comply with the regulations, the former health minister said in an interview published on Tuesday in the newspaper Hammihan. “Were we to blame for not […]
By Lindsay Dunsmuir (Reuters) – U.S. job growth likely maintained its moderate pace in May and wage gains were expected to hold steady, which would keep the Federal Reserve in wait-and-see mode on interest rates but likely encourage bets the central bank will lower borrowing costs at least once this year. The Labor Department’s closely […]
GOP Rep. Tony Gonzales of Texas is fighting to avoid defeat in a hotly contested Republican primary runoff Tuesday, with a challenger attacking him for taking bipartisan votes, including helping pass a new gun law in the wake of the school shooting in Uvalde in 2022. Voters are heading to the polls in Texas’ 23rd […]
Since it seems inevitable that we will soon have a Labour government it is worth pondering now what manner of monstrosity it might be. The Conservatives have spent recent days warning about the known knowns of the Labour Party. Which is perhaps inevitable. But to continue with the Rumsfeld-ism, we should spend at least some […]
NORTH PORT – The city of North Port enacted a burn ban Tuesday, prohibiting outdoor campfires, land clearing burning and pile burns and bringing the city in line with a similar ban enacted earlier this month in unincorporated Sarasota County and the cities of Sarasota and Venice. Sarasota County and most of Manatee and Charlotte […]