The recent breakdown in relations with Niger, where American troops are set to withdraw as Russian fighters arrive, has forced a reckoning inside the Biden administration over its approach to maintaining its allies in volatile parts of Africa, according to two officials familiar with the matter. Both officials were granted anonymity to speak about sensitive diplomatic negotiations. Read more
Dawkins increasingly has expressed his fear that all his efforts will only result in the world being a worse place.
Poland is "ready" to host NATO nuclear weapons should the alliance move to reinforce its eastern flank bordering Russia, Warsaw has said. Read more
Brendan Buck - The speaker, Mike Johnson, holds his role only because a few hard-line Republicans ousted the previous speaker for being too dismissive of their demands. But since the moment they threw their support behind Mr. Johnson, these hard-liners have encountered the reality that they're irrelevant to the governance of the House of Representatives. Read more
Neoliberal orthodoxy holds that economic freedom is the basis of every other kind. That orthodoxy, a Nobel economist says, is not only false; it is devouring itself. Read more
An Indiana man who once won a Republican township board primary while in jail on accusations he killed his wife was convicted of voluntary manslaughter. Andrew Wilhoite was arrested in connection with the death of his wife, Elizabeth "Nikki" Wilhoite in March 2022, the Boone County Sheriff's Office said at the time. While incarcerated in jail, Andrew was one of three Republican candidates who advanced in a primary election for the Clinton Township Board. During the course of a domestic dispute, [then] 39-year-old Andrew N. Wilhoite, Elizabeth's husband, had allegedly struck her in the head with a blunt object causing her to lose consciousness," state police said at the time. "He then placed her into a vehicle and drove to a nearby creek where he dumped her body."
Celebrating the decline in Ukraine's capabilities without American help, prominent propagandists started to refer to Speaker of the House Mike Johnson as "our Johnson," in a similar vein to claiming Trump as their own, calling him "our Trump" or affectionately referring to him as Trumpushka. When Speaker Johnson finally advanced the long-stalled aid package and the House approved $61bn of desperately needed foreign aid for Ukraine " including a measure to allow the sale of frozen Russian sovereign assets to help Ukraine's war effort " the disappointment in Moscow was palpable. Read more
Officials at Columbia University, facing surging tensions on campus that raised safety concerns, have announced all classes will be virtual on Monday as Passover begins. A rabbi linked to the university even urged Jewish students to stay home due to concerns about their safety as Passover, a major Jewish holiday, is set to begin Monday evening. Tensions at many universities have been high ever since the October 7 terror attack on Israel by Hamas. However, the situation at Columbia escalated in recent days after university officials testified before Congress last week about antisemitism on campus and pro-Palestinian protests on and near campus surged. Read more
Tesla has the cut its prices again in a number of major markets - including the US, China and Germany - as the electric car giant run by multi-billionaire Elon Musk faces falling sales. The move comes after it reported a sharp fall in its global vehicle deliveries in the first three months of this year. Read more
Former Brazil President Jair Bolsonaro praised Elon Musk as a free-speech advocate, in his latest effort to build opposition to the country's Supreme Court as his legal troubles mount.
Russia said on Sunday U.S. lawmakers' support for $60.84 billion more in aid for Ukraine showed that Washington was wading much deeper into a hybrid war against Moscow that would end in humiliation on a par with the Vietnam or Afghanistan conflicts.
When asked by Bash if she believed there should be exceptions for rape and incest, Ms Noem replied: "We rely in South Dakota on the fact that I am pro-life and we have a law that says there is an exception for the life of the mother, and I just don't believe that a tragedy should perpetuate another tragedy." In seeking a place alongside Mr Trump on the Republican ticket, the interview on CNN also allowed Ms Noem to claim that former Vice President Mike Pence had "failed Donald Trump" since January 6 by constantly criticising him " seemingly forgetting that rioters at the Capitol loyal to Mr Trump wanted to hang him.
Meeting at London's Royal Society will scrutinise basic model first formulated in 1922 that universe is a vast, even expanse with no notable features
Magazine publisher David Pecker is slated to be the first witness in former President Trump's criminal hush money trial, The New York Times reported Sunday, setting the stage as the first criminal trial of a former president gets underway Monday.
The proportion of Americans who believe the United States doesn't have control over its external borders has increased substantially over the past eight months according to a new poll conducted exclusively for Newsweek
"My colleagues and I did a study about 10 years ago looking at the two different parties in the United States"not in terms of ideology or policies but purely in terms of violent death rates"and, astonishingly, we found that over a 110-year period, almost without exception, whenever there was a Republican president who was elected, the murder and suicide rates would double, and whenever there was a Democratic president elected, the murder and suicide rates would halve."
