Former President Donald Trump railed against prosecutors and President Joe Biden on Saturday night, telling donors at a private event in Florida that the president is “running a Gestapo administration.” Throughout a sprawling, nearly 90-minute speech, Trump criticized the criminal indictments he’s facing and the ongoing hush-money trial in New York, which is going into […]
PALM BEACH, Fla. — Top officials for former President Donald Trump’s campaign believe they can flip Democratic strongholds Minnesota and Virginia into his column in November, they told donors behind closed doors at a Republican National Committee retreat Saturday. Brandishing internal surveys, pollster Tony Fabrizio and senior advisers Susie Wiles and Chris LaCivita delivered a […]
May 4—HIGH POINT — If you’re wondering whether former youth pastor Barry Osborne made an impact on the lives of the countless teenagers he ministered to, the name of their alumni group should give you a hint: Barry’s Grateful Kids. Of course, they’re not kids anymore — some of them are in their 60s and […]
Ukraine’s troops have been forced to make a tactical retreat from three villages in the embattled east, the country’s army chief has said. Col Gen Oleksandr Syrskyi warned of a worsening battlefield situation as Ukrainian forces wait for much-needed arms from a huge US aid package to reach combat zones. He reported that Russian forces […]
Coal, the fading powerhouse of the U.S. electricity system, is about to see its fortunes turn even darker. New Biden administration pollution regulations released Thursday will make it more expensive for energy companies to keep burning coal. The industry is losing two of its most powerful advocates in Congress, Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell and […]
A reporter for the news website Signal Akron has been removed from a witness list after city prosecutors initially named him as a witness for the Akron Municipal Court trial of a woman who was body-slammed by an Akron police officer in January during a domestic incident call. Signal reported Tuesday that Doug Brown, who […]
HONG KONG (AP) — Asian stocks tumbled Friday, with Japan’s Nikkei slumping 2.4% on heavy selling of semiconductor-related shares and other market heavyweights. Tensions in the Middle East were weighing on sentiment across the region, and U.S. futures were sharply lower. Oil prices jumped as the state-run IRNA news agency reported that Iran fired air […]
Asian shares advanced on Thursday even after sinking technology stocks sent Wall Street lower in the S&P 500’s worse losing streak since the start of the year. U.S. futures were lower, while oil prices gained. Tokyo’s Nikkei 225 climbed 0.3% to 38,079.70 and the Hang Seng in Hong Kong gained 1.3% to 16,468.07. The Shanghai […]
(Bloomberg) — Exposure to stocks is now so high that any weakness is likely to set off a bigger slump once investors start to cut back on their long positions, according to top Wall Street strategists. Most Read from Bloomberg A survey from Bank of America Corp. found that investor allocation to equities is at […]
European Central Bank policymakers will discuss green monetary policy and their upcoming strategy review at a retreat in Ireland next month, where they will also pave the ground for a likely interest rate cut in June, according to sources. The ECB is nearing the end of a two-year fight against high inflation, with the internal […]
(Reuters) – President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said in an interview published on Friday that if Ukraine does not get promised U.S. military aid blocked by disputes in Congress, its forces will have to retreat “in small steps”. “If there is no U.S. support, it means that we have no air defence, no Patriot missiles, no jammers […]
For two days this week a standard, tan wall in a Savannah Civic Center meeting room took on vibrant color with rectangular paper slips in shades red, blue, salmon, green and yellow, like pennants signaling a way forward. On the slips of paper, an array of Savannah City Council members’ priorities and ideas ― workforce […]