Tag: Senior

Biden ‘forgets his own policies in meetings with senior politicians’

Joe Biden has forgotten details of his own policies in closed-door meetings with senior politicians, according to reports. The US president is said to use notes for talking points and rely on advisers to answer questions in backroom negotiations, the Wall Street Journal reported. Some claim the 81-year-old frequently mumbles and is “not the same […]

Grasso Tech senior joins sisters in bright future in engineering

Jun. 2—Editor’s note: The Day publishes an annual series of stories spotlighting outstanding seniors graduating from the region’s 16 public and private high schools. Groton ― When Ella T. Grasso Technical High School senior Benyris Acevedo was younger, she remembers being inspired seeing her two older sisters working on drafting. Acevedo, who enjoys math, liked […]

Florida sheriff’s office fires deputy who fatally shot senior airman

A Florida Panhandle sheriff on Friday fired a deputy who fatally shot an airman at his home while holding a handgun pointed to the ground, saying the deputy’s life was never in danger and he should not have fired his weapon. Okaloosa County Sheriff Eric Aden fired Deputy Eddie Duran, who fatally shot Senior Airman Roger Fortson on […]

Senior Republicans criticise guilty verdicts against Donald Trump

Senior figures in the Republican Party have reacted with fury after a New York jury convicted former US president Donald Trump on 34 counts of falsifying business records to influence the 2016 election. House Speaker Mike Johnson described the verdicts as a “shameful day in American history” and said the charges were “purely political”, while […]

Putin names ex-bodyguard Alexei Dyumin, a potential successor, to senior role

By Andrew Osborn (Reuters) -Russian President Vladimir Putin appointed Alexei Dyumin, his former bodyguard, as secretary of the advisory State Council on Wednesday, a step that fuelled speculation about Dyumin’s presidential potential. Putin was re-elected for another six-year term in March and made Dyumin, 51, an aide overseeing the defence industry in May, bringing him […]