US Vice-President Kamala Harris has passed the threshold to clinch the Democratic presidential nomination in a vote of party delegates.Speaking by telephone, Ms Harris said she was “honoured to be the presumptive nominee” as the virtual roll call continues ahead of the Democratic National Convention (DNC) in Chicago later this month.Ms Harris is the first […]
Donald Trump has said he has agreed to debate Vice President Kamala Harris on September 4 in an event which will be moderated by Fox News. In a post on Truth Social, Trump said he is “totally prepared” to accept the “coup” which saw the Democrats replace President Joe Biden as the party’s presumptive 2024 […]
Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin revoked the plea agreements for the 9/11 terrorist attack mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and two others, and relieved the official in charge of military courts in Guantanamo Bay. The move puts the possibility of the death penalty back on the table for the trio. It was announced in a memorandum on […]
New details emerged Friday on the largest prisoner swap since the Cold War, with the Kremlin acknowledging for the first time that some of the Russians held in the West were from its security services. Families of freed dissidents, meanwhile, expressed their joy at the surprise release. While journalists Evan Gershkovich and Alsu Kurmasheva and […]
The Justice Department has joined a host of federal agencies that now offer the potential of a big financial payout to tipsters who take on the risk of turning over incriminating information about their employer or another company to the government. Under a three-year pilot program launched Thursday, people who turn over original information or […]
Former San Francisco Mayor Willie Brown was candid about Vice President Harris’ chances in the 2024 presidential race in a newly published interview. Brown, who has been open about his extramarital relationship with Harris in the ‘90s, said he was nervous about the VP’s likability with voters in the weeks before she became the presumptive […]
Donald Trump has questioned Kamala Harris’ racial identity during a heated exchange at a convention for black journalists. Trump falsely claimed the vice-president and presumptive Democratic nominee had only emphasised her Asian-American heritage until recently when, he claimed, “she became a black person”.“I didn’t know she was black until a number of years ago when […]
Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich and former United States Marine Paul Whelan were released from Russian custody in a major prisoner swap. Bloomberg confirmed Gershkovich’s and Whelan’s release on Thursday, though the details of the agreement, including who else is being released, remain largely unknown and could include countries outside the U.S. and Russia. […]
Inflation has led to price surges at grocery stores, car dealerships and even dine-in restaurants nationwide. A new study finds it’s also the main motive behind another recent surge: shoplifting. More than 20% of Americans have admitted to stealing items from stores within the past year or so, according to a new survey from personal […]
We’re beginning to get some idea of how Ismail Haniyeh was killed. Early indications suggest that he and his bodyguards died when a rocket hit the house where he was staying in Tehran. All eyes will inevitably fall on Israel, which vowed to hunt down and punish all Hamas leaders following the brutal attacks of […]
Vice President Kamala Harris is pinning her hopes for the White House on her track record as an advocate for abortion access. Just as former President Donald Trump rose to political prominence with a focus on immigration, so too Harris is building her campaign on restoring national abortion protections in the aftermath of the Dobbs […]
Democrats have unveiled a new attack line, labeling MAGA Republicans as “weird,” which has enraged some of them. Governor Tim Walz, a Democrat from Minnesota who is among the front-runners to be Vice President Kamala Harris’ running mate in November, appeared to originate the use of the description while appearing on MSNBC last week. “These are […]
