House Democrats fumed Thursday over the spending bill drama and what they characterized as the outsize influence of Elon Musk and others in President-elect Donald Trump’s orbit, after a bipartisan plan brokered by House Speaker Mike Johnson collapsed just hours earlier. Speaking to reporters outside a leadership meeting on Thursday, House Democrats expressed disappointment in…
Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis looks on during a hearing in the case of the State of Georgia v. Donald John Trump at the Fulton County Courthouse on March 1, 2024, in Atlanta, Georgia. Alex Slitz-Pool | Getty Images News | Getty Images A Georgia appeals court on Thursday disqualified Fulton County District Attorney…
Several children have been killed in a crush at a funfair in the south-west Nigerian city of Ibadan, with many others hospitalised. The exact number of casualties is not clear. The event was advertised as free entry and drew a large crowd but so many people turned up that there was a crush as they…
A British court ruled Wednesday that police can seize more than 2.6 million pounds (US$3.3 million) to cover years of unpaid taxes from influencer Andrew Tate and his brother Tristan. The Devon and Cornwall Police force went to court to claim the money, held in seven frozen bank accounts, from the Tates and a woman…
The war in Gaza is one of the few conflicts most civilians can’t escape. But in a small number of cases, patients who are sick or critically injured have been evacuated through a complex system controlled by Israel and managed by the U.N. The Times Magazine reporter Nicholas Casey joined a rare evacuation flight out…
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A judge has granted permission to Derek Chauvin’s lawyers to have tissue samples from George Floyd’s body examined. It’s part of the former Minneapolis police officer’s efforts to challenge his federal conviction of violating Floyd’s civil rights after he was also convicted in Floyd’s 2020 killing. U.S. District Judge Paul Magnuson granted the order Monday, agreeing to let the defence examine Floyd’s heart…
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US president-elect’s lawsuit comes days after reaching defamation settlement with ABC News. United States President-elect Donald Trump has filed a lawsuit accusing a newspaper and a polling firm of engaging in “brazen election interference” by publishing a pre-election survey that underestimated his popularity. The lawsuit filed late on Monday accuses The Des Moines Register newspaper,…
Fox News host Sean Hannity says the American people are ready to “move on” from President Biden in his opening monologue Tuesday on “Hannity.” SEAN HANNITY: Joe Biden is still president for a few more weeks. But you, the American people, are ready, obviously, to move on. According to a new Reuters poll, Biden now…
Makoto Uchida (L), president and CEO of Japanese auto maker Nissan, shakes hands with Toshihiro Mibe (R), director, president and representative executive officer of auto maker Honda, following a press conference in Tokyo on August 1, 2024. Richard A. Brooks | Afp | Getty Images Nissan Motor shares surged Wednesday following a media report that…
A woman from the Philippines who spent almost 15 years on death row in Indonesia and was nearly executed by firing squad is on her way home. Mary Jane Veloso was sentenced to death in 2010 after she was found carrying 2.6kg (5.7lb) of heroin through an Indonesian airport. But the 39-year-old mother of two…
Descrease article font size Increase article font size A warning to supplement users: a Texas-based company is pulling several of its weight-loss products off the shelves after the United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA) discovered a potentially deadly ingredient in product samples. On Dec. 13, the FDA and the company Motivate Me Ashley announced…
The 7.3-magnitude earthquake caused heavy damage to buildings, including the U.S. Embassy, and knocked out the internet across most of the Pacific Island nation. #Powerful #Earthquake #Extensive #Damage #Vanuatu
792 people have been arrested in Nigeria as part of a raid on a crypto romance ring. Many of those taken into custody from the site in Victoria Island were foreign nationals including 148 who were from China. The scam targeted victims around the world by developing romantic relationships with their marks via social media…
Russian dissident Vladimir Kara-Murza said his mother was in hospital in Berlin on Tuesday, while German police said they were investigating a case of attempted homicide. Kara-Murza said suspicions that his mother, a German-Russian national, had been poisoned had not been confirmed. Police said the results of toxicology tests were not expected before Wednesday. “My…
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NewsFeed Oil has washed up along tens of kilometres of Russia’s Black Sea coastline after two of its tankers were badly damaged in a storm over the weekend. Published On 17 Dec 202417 Dec 2024 #Oil #washes #Russias #Black #Sea #coast #tanker #spill #Oil #Gas
Trump hater and former MSNBC anchor Keith Olbermann wrote a column this week, telling his old network exactly what to do during the second term of President-elect Trump. Step one, he outlined, would be to fire two channel co-hosts for trying to find common ground with Trump. In a piece for Variety, Olbermann demanded that…
Former US President Donald Trump leaves the courthouse after a jury found him guilty of all 34 felony counts in his criminal trial at New York State Supreme Court in New York, New York, USA, 30 May 2024. Trump faced 34 felony counts of falsifying business records related to payments made to adult film star…
AFP A petition calling for Paul Watson’s release had previously surpassed 123,000 signatures Anti-whaling activist Paul Watson has been released from prison in Greenland where he spent five months in custody, after Denmark rejected a Japanese request to extradite him. Mr Watson, 74, was detained by police when his ship docked in Greenland’s capital, Nuuk,…