PHOENIX (AP) — Independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr., won’t be with his better-known rivals, President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump, when they debate Thursday in Atlanta. And aside from a livestreamed response to the debate, he also has nothing on his public schedule for the coming weeks. Nor does his running […]
Microsoft jumped headfirst into building artificial intelligence directly into its Windows operating system on Monday, announcing new AI computers that could help ramp up flagging PC sales. The developments push the company closer to its long-time goal to “build computers that understand us versus us having to understand computers,” CEO Satya Nadella told the audience […]
Regarding the legal (and legalistic) issues related to the current raft of criminal cases lodged against former game-show host, occasional pornographic-film performer, and disgraced ex-president Donald J. Trump, I commend to you the expert opinions of Dispatch legal analyst Sarah Isgur and frequent Advisory Opinions podcast guest David French of the New York Times. For […]
MEXICO CITY (AP) — By mid-2024, Claudia Sheinbaum will most likely become Mexico’s first female president. She would also be its first leader with a Jewish background in a country that’s home to nearly 100 million Catholics. On June 2, voters will choose a new president, 628 congressmen and thousands of local positions — Mexico’s […]
The New York judge overseeing Donald Trump’s upcoming Manhattan hush-money trial on Wednesday rejected the former president’s request to delay the proceedings pending the Supreme Court’s presidential immunity decision, tossing one of several of Trump’s remaining bids to delay the trial and tanking his effort to exclude key evidence from being used during it. New York […]
An unnamed Ukrainian officer told Politico of his doubts about the usefulness of incoming F-16s. He said that Russia has already been preparing the battlefield for the NATO aircraft by range-finding. It’s an example of how Ukraine often receives weapons systems too late, he told Politico. Ukraine’s long-awaited F-16s are an example of weapons systems […]
American-made F-16 fighter jets due to arrive in Ukraine this summer are “no longer relevant”, a senior Ukrainian military official has said. Ukraine’s air force is expected to take delivery of the first tranche of a dozen aircraft in July after Ukrainian pilots have been trained and the country’s airfields prepared. Before their arrival, the […]
Former President Donald Trump‘s legal team on Friday filed proposed supplemental information consisting of an analysis of cell phone records from before Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis and special prosecutor Nathan Wade said their relationship began. Criminal defense investigator Charles Mittelstadt wrote in an affidavit that Willis and Wade made more than 2,000 calls […]
GENEVA (AP) — The head of the World Trade Organization insisted Friday that it remains relevant and its leaders focus on reform “no matter who comes into power” as Donald Trump — who as U.S. president bypassed WTO rules by slapping tariffs on America’s friends and foes alike — makes another run at the White […]
We recently reported on a gymnastics coach in Key Biscayne, Oscar Olea, who has been accused of sexually assaulting students going back a decade and had been under investigation recently by Key Biscayne police. He’s never been charged. The allegations against Olea included a recently closed investigation over purported inappropriate touching and language toward students […]
On Feb. 8, 1910, now 114 years ago, the Boy Scouts of America were chartered. Scouting had begun just over two years earlier in Great Britain, the brain child of Robert Stephenson Smyth Baden-Powell, who wisely tended to go by “B-P.” Jeff Gill A war hero in England, he came home invited to do anything, […]
Valerii Zaluzhnyi, Commander-in-Chief of Ukraine’s Armed Forces, believes it is necessary to retain the concepts of fitness and unfitness for military service in the legislation and to abandon the division into disability levels. Source: Zaluzhnyi at a briefing Quote from Zaluzhnyi: “I believe that today, the use of disability levels, group 2, group 3, is […]