TUCSON, Ariz. — On the eve of the presidential debate, GOP Senate candidate Kari Lake decided to skip out on her own. The MAGA firebrand and frontrunner for her party’s Senate nomination in the key battleground state was invited to participate in a formal debate Wednesday night against her lone GOP primary competitor, Pinal County […]
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US President Joe Biden skips dinner during G7 summit in Bari, Italy
US President Joe Biden is not going to attend a joint dinner with the other leaders of the seven advanced industrialized democracies attending the G7 summit in southern Italy on Thursday evening, the White House said in advance. Washington did not give a reason for Biden’s absence but he was due to meet Ukrainian President […]
Parks department skips federal funding for shooting range to avoid additional site scrutiny
The South Dakota Department of Game, Fish, and Parks wanted to use federal funding to help offset the cost of a $20 million shooting range outside Rapid City. That is, until the department learned more time was needed to analyze the site’s significance to Native Americans. Artifacts had been found, according to the state Tribal Historic […]
Woman who stole Biden daughter’s diary skips sentencing, threatened with arrest
By Luc Cohen NEW YORK (Reuters) – The woman who admitted to stealing President Joe Biden‘s daughter Ashley’s diary and helping sell it to conservative activists could face arrest as soon as Friday after skipping her sentencing, a federal judge said on Wednesday. Aimee Harris was supposed to be sentenced in Manhattan on Wednesday afternoon. […]
Trump wins Nevada caucuses as remaining rival skips the vote
Former president Donald Trump won Nevada’s Republican presidential caucuses after he was the only major candidate to compete. Former UN ambassador Nikki Haley, his last major rival, skipped Thursday’s caucuses even though they are the only contest in Nevada that counts towards the Republican party nomination. Mrs Haley cited what she considered an unfair process […]
Biden skips visit to South Carolina for presidential primary, stops in L.A. instead
South Carolina held the first official Democratic presidential primary Saturday. But as the polls closed, President Biden was 2,400 miles away, in Los Angeles, stepping off Air Force One. Biden’s victory in the Palmetto State was a foregone conclusion, and his campaign invested significant time there leading up to the primary. So Biden headed west. […]
Trump skips much of the final week before Iowa’s caucuses to go to court voluntarily instead
URBANDALE, Iowa (AP) — While his rivals contend with snow drifts and frigid temperatures as they make their last-ditch pitch to Iowa voters, former President Donald Trump has spent much of the week before the caucuses in court instead, by choice. Trump was in Washington, D.C., for a federal hearing Tuesday and attended the closing […]
Tesla skips employees’ yearly merit-based stock compensations
(Reuters) -Tesla is not offering its employees yearly merit-based stock awards, Bloomberg News reported on Tuesday. Tesla did not immediately respond to Reuters’ request for comment. The news comes after United Auto Workers union said in November it is launching a first-of-its-kind push to publicly organize the entire nonunion auto sector in the U.S., including […]
Tesla skips employees’ yearly merit-based stock compensations
(Reuters) -Tesla is not offering its employees yearly merit-based stock awards, Bloomberg News reported on Tuesday. Tesla did not immediately respond to Reuters’ request for comment. The news comes after United Auto Workers union said in November it is launching a first-of-its-kind push to publicly organize the entire nonunion auto sector in the U.S., including […]
Rudy Giuliani skips hearing in election worker defamation case, drawing judge’s ire
WASHINGTON — Rudy Giuliani skipped out on a court hearing Tuesday ahead of his defamation trial, drawing the ire of a federal judge. A pretrial hearing was held in Washington on Tuesday ahead of next week’s jury trial to determine how much Giuliani will have to pay in damages to Ruby Freeman and her daughter, Wandrea […]