Abortion came up early in CNN’s presidential debate Thursday night, with Donald Trump repeating his head-scratching claim that “everybody” wanted to overturn Roe v. Wade. The subject arose when debate moderators Dana Bash and Jake Tapper asked the former president whether he would block access to medication abortion, something the U.S. Supreme Court just voted […]
One day before Germans go to the polls in the European Parliament elections, Chancellor Olaf Scholz reaffirmed his support for war-torn Ukraine. “Russia will not get away with its imperialist plans,” the Social Democratic (SPD) chancellor said in his weekly video message published on Saturday. “Putin must realize that he cannot win his brutal campaign. […]
President Joe Biden has revived a debunked tale about his past – his fictional claim that he used to drive an 18-wheeler truck. Biden has repeatedly embellished or invented biographical tidbits. In 2021, he claimed during a tour of a Mack Trucks facility: “I used to drive an 18-wheeler, man,” then added, “I got to.” […]
Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi has once again warned Israel against mounting a military counter-attack following Iran’s recent air assault on Israel. During a telephone call with Qatar’s Emir Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani, Raisi warned that “the slightest action” by Israel against Iran’s national interests “will have extensive and painful consequences.” Details of the call […]
The first minister has condemned Iran’s attack on Israel, labelling it an “extremely worrying development.” Humza Yousaf said that all parties in the Middle East should abide by UN Security Council resolutions and implement an immediate ceasefire. He added that “violence begets violence” and that civilians in the region had already “paid far too high […]
(Reuters) – Donald Trump once again attacked his former lawyer Michael Cohen on Saturday, potentially testing the limits of a gag order that bars him from making public statements about witnesses concerning their testimony in his upcoming criminal trial in New York. In a post on his Truth Social platform, the former president wrote, “Has […]
Forty years ago, three local Black pastors appeared on the front page of The Courier Journal to denounce two patently racist transportation-related decisions by the Jefferson County School Board. The first: A modification of its busing plan whereby the majority of Black students from West Louisville would be forcibly bused to the county’s suburban schools. […]
Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán is worrying about allegedly “catastrophic consequences” of Ukraine’s EU accession again. Source: European Pravda with reference to Orbán’s claims in an interview to a French media outlet Le Point published by his press service Details: Orbán mentioned the Eurointegration of Ukraine in his comments on the protests of European farmers. […]
President Vladimir Putin on Saturday said Ukraine “glorifies” Adolf Hitler’s SS killing squads and vowed to “eradicate Nazism,” as he opened a memorial marking 80 years since the end of the siege of Leningrad. The Russian leader has repeatedly invoked the Soviet Union’s victory over Nazi Germany in the Second World War to justify his […]
Russia’s air attack on the night of 1-2 January was as massive as the one on 29 December, in terms of the types of weapons launched by the terrorist state on Ukraine. Source: Lieutenant General Mykola Oleshchuk, Ukraine’s Air Force Commander, on Telegram Quote: “Tonight, the enemy actually repeated the attack of 29 December, both […]
JERUSALEM (Reuters) – One of the senior figures in Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu‘s right-wing coalition called on Sunday for Palestinian residents of Gaza to leave the besieged enclave, making way for Israelis who could “make the desert bloom”. The comments by Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich, who has been excluded from the war cabinet and […]
By Nathan Layne DURHAM, New Hampshire (Reuters) – Donald Trump, the Republican presidential frontrunner, said on Saturday that undocumented immigrants were “poisoning the blood of our country,” repeating language that has previously drawn criticism as xenophobic and echoing of Nazi rhetoric. Trump made the comments during a campaign event in New Hampshire where he railed […]