The North American Aerospace Defense Command intercepted two Russian and two Chinese bombers flying near Alaska Wednesday in what a US defense official said was the first time the two countries have been intercepted while operating together. The bombers remained in international airspace in Alaska’s Air Defense Identification Zone (ADIZ) and were “not seen as […]
Buildings in the Canadian tourist town of Jasper have been burning after wildfires forced 25,000 people to evacuate the area on Tuesday, officials said.The blaze has spread through Jasper National Park, causing “significant loss” within the town, according to park officials on X, formerly Twitter.Hundreds of wildfires have sparked in the western provinces of Alberta […]
President Biden, who ended his campaign career Sunday under pressure from Democratic colleagues, emerged from more than a week of COVID-19 isolation to explain his historic change of heart about seeking reelection. There’s “a time and a place for new voices, fresh voices, yes, younger voices. That time and place is now,” he said Wednesday. […]
On the 2020 campaign trail, as Kamala Harris polled at just 10% to Joe Biden‘s 30% in the Democratic presidential primary, the then-California senator made a pledge to voters. “Our campaign is not taking a dime from corporate PACs or lobbyists — and that was a very deliberate choice,” Harris, the soon-to-be vice president to […]
Israel’s prime minister will address a joint session of the US Congress in a bid to bolster support for his war in the Gaza Strip.Benjamin Netanyahu was invited by the Speaker of the House, Mike Johnson, whose Republican Party is trying to show unflinching support for Israel.But several Democratic lawmakers plan to boycott the address […]
Valentina Bondarenko, a top Russian economist, has died at the age of 82 after falling out of her apartment window in Moscow, Russian state-run media reported on Tuesday. Bondarenko, a leading research fellow at the Institute of Economics of the Russian Academy of Sciences in Moscow, fell out of her apartment window on Monday evening, […]
U.S. Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheatle resigned Tuesday in the wake of mounting pressure following the assassination attempt on former President Trump, Fox News confirmed. Fox News reviewed the letter Cheatle sent to the U.S. Secret Service Tuesday morning, just a day after she taking bipartisan heat during testimony before the House Oversight Committee Monday […]
Republicans are attacking Democrats as rigging their nomination for Vice President Kamala Harris following the pressure campaign that led President Joe Biden to drop out of the 2024 race on Sunday. GOP lawmakers appear intent on hammering Democrats as the real threat to overturning elections. Now the Democrats are rigging their own elections,” Sen. Josh […]
The path for Vice-President Kamala Harris to secure the Democratic presidential nomination is clearing.That may end up being the easy part. The most formidable challenge – defeating Republican nominee Donald Trump in November – is still to come. Her elevation to the top of ticket would bring new strengths for the Democrats, but it also […]
Donald Trump has demanded compensation for funds spent campaigning against Joe Biden after the US president pulled out of the race for the White House. Republicans should be “reimbursed for fraud”, Trump said, as the vice-president Kamala Harris emerged as the frontrunner to be the Democrat candidate. Mr Biden withdrew on Sunday after weeks of […]
In a stunning move, President Biden on Sunday dropped out of the presidential race and endorsed Vice President Harris to be his successor. In doing so, the president brought to a close a 50-year political career and broke the presidential race wide open a little more than 100 days before voters head to the polls […]
Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheatle is set to tell House lawmakers Monday that her agency “failed” when it came to security at the Trump rally in Pennsylvania, where an assassination attempt unfolded. “The Secret Service’s solemn mission is to protect our nation’s leaders. On July 13th, we failed,” Cheatle is expected to say, according to […]
