The returning head of the House Republican campaign committee says President-elect Trump’s convincing 2024 White House victory gives the GOP plenty of home field advantage as the party aims to defend its razor-thin majority in the 2026 midterm elections. “The battlefield is really laying out to our advantage. There are 14 Democrats who won seats…
A bill backed by celebrity and entrepreneur Paris Hilton is heading to President Biden’s desk after the House passed the act on Wednesday, a week after it was cleared unanimously by the Senate. The “Stop Institutional Child Abuse Act” requires more oversight for youth residential treatment facilities, a regulation Hilton has spent years lobbying for…
Days after Cyclone Chido hit the French Indian Ocean territory of Mayotte, residents are still struggling to access water and food, as rescuers race to find those missing. The cyclone devastated entire neighbourhoods and killed at least 31 people, according to France’s interior ministry. Among the damaged and destroyed homes in Mayotte’s capital, Mamoudzou, people…
The 1,547-page interim spending bill to avoid a government shutdown is effectively dead. House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) has all but yanked the plan off the floor after President-elect Trump, Vice President-elect Vance and Elon Musk torched the package to avoid a government shutdown this weekend and fund the government through March 14. Had House…
Getty Images At least 100 North Korean soldiers have been killed in fighting in the Ukraine war since entering combat on the Russian side earlier this month, a South Korean MP has said. Lee Sung-kwon, speaking to reporters after parliament was briefed by the country’s National Intelligence Service, said another 1,000 had been injured. He…
Oklahoma lawmakers support eliminating the Department of Education, after President-elect Donald Trump promised to do away with the department during the campaign. “I personally believe that we should have more of our education at the state level as opposed to Washington, D.C.,” Republican Policy Committee Chair-elect and Oklahoma Rep. Kevin Hern said. “This has been…
Chonburi, eastern Thailand – As night falls, a team of wildlife officers and veterinarians springs into action. In a carefully rehearsed routine, they enter the lemur enclosure, nets in hand. One by one, the lemurs – whose big eyes, fox-like faces and long, bushy tails set them apart from their primate relatives – are captured,…
An American citizen has pleaded guilty to helping run what has been described as the first known secret police station in the US on behalf of the Chinese government. Prosecutors say Chen Jinping and his co-defendent Lu Jianwang opened and operated the station in Manhattan’s Chinatown neighbourhood in early 2022 on behalf of China’s Ministry…
The stock sell-off on Wall Street was “healthy,” as the Federal Reserve’s cautionary projection on future rate cuts gives investors a “reality check,” according to Jeremy Siegel, professor emeritus of finance at University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School. The U.S. Federal Reserve cut interest rates by a quarter percentage point at its last meeting of the…
A dog who went missing in Tennessee will be reunited with his family after he was found injured in a ravine on Wednesday. A Tennessee Department of Transportation crew was removing a tree from the 2400 block of State Route 48 in the city of Dickson when they “heard a sound coming from a nearby…
Amnesty International has revealed that phones belonging to Serbian activists and journalists have been hacked by Serbian intelligence and police using Israeli spyware and other mobile device forensics tools. The software is being used “to unlawfully target journalists, environmental activists and other individuals in a covert surveillance campaign”, Amnesty said on Monday. Many individuals who…
A group of agitators waving Palestinian flags stormed the court during a basketball game between Israel’s Hapoel Holon and France’s Nanterre 92, sparking chaos in the stands. The bedlam came during the third quarter of the game in Nanterre, France, which was part of the FIBA Basketball Champions League. Around 10 individuals ran onto the…
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Dmitry Medvedev, deputy chair of Russia’s Security Council, appeared to threaten senior staff at The Times newspaper. Britain has accused Russia of making a “gangster threat” after former Russian President Dmitry Medvedev issued a warning to journalists at The Times over the newspaper’s coverage of the assassination of Igor Kirillov, the head the Russian army’s…
A state of exceptional natural disaster has been declared in Mayotte as the French Indian Ocean territory reels from the devastation of Cyclone Chido. At least 31 people are reported by French officials to have died, while thousands are still missing after the cyclone tore through the small islands on Saturday. It the first time…
A series of Israeli airstrikes targeted Sanaa, Yemen’s Houthi-controlled capital, early Thursday, igniting fires at energy facilities and at the Red Sea port city of Hodeida. “The targets struck by the [Israeli military] were used by the Houthi forces for military purposes,” a statement said. “The strikes degrade the Houthi terrorist regime, preventing it from…
Amnesty International says Guantanamo Bay prison camp is a ‘glaring, longstanding stain’ on human rights record of the United States. Two Malaysian men held at the United States military prison in Guantanamo Bay for 18 years have been returned home, Malaysia’s state news agency reports. Malaysia’s Inspector General of Police Razarudin Husain said Mohammed Farik…
For the uninitiated, sorting one’s trash can be a convoluted process in Japan – a country that boasts one of the world’s strictest garbage disposal rules. But in the city of Fukushima, things are about to get even tougher. Starting in March, the city government will go through bags of trash that fall afoul of…
CLEMENT MAHOUDEAU/AFP It was Gisèle Pelicot’s decision to open the case to the public that has given the trial international significance Judges in the French city of Avignon will hand down verdicts on 51 men on Thursday in a mass rape trial that has turned a 72-year-old woman into a feminist icon. For almost a…
