Back in the fall of 2017, during the 19th National Congress of the Chinese Communist Party, President Xi Jinping took the podium at Beijing’s Great Hall of the People to claim that one-party autocracy offered an option for “countries that […]
Democratic Minnesota Rep. Ilhan Omar on Thursday called for the U.S. government to cease detaining illegal immigrants. Omar tweeted an ABC News story about a tiny Georgia town having more detained illegal immigrants than residents. Her takeaway: America shouldn’t be detaining those […]
ANKARA (Reuters) – Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan said on Monday that Somalia had invited Turkey to explore for oil in its seas, after Ankara signed a maritime agreement with Libya last year, broadcaster NTV reported. Turkey has been a major […]
Australia’s already fire-ravaged state, Victoria, could now face severe flooding as experts forecast its wettest two-day period in “many, many months”. Heavy rain has dampened many of the country’s bushfires, which began in September and have killed at least 28 […]
“Apocalyptic” dust storms swept across drought-stricken areas of Australia over the weekend, with thunder and giant hail battering the east coast, as extreme weather patterns collided in the bushfire-fatigued country. The southern city of Melbourne was lashed by huge hailstones […]
CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — Dust storms, hail and flash floods have battered beleaguered Australian cities in recent days, extreme weather that has diminished the threat from scores of wildfires that continue to blaze across the country’s southeast. A hail storm […]
Roslan Rahman/AFP/Getty Images Six former cruise-ship workers described to Business Insider the things they couldn’t live without while on the job. Their answers included clothing, technology, and cosmetics. The workers’ former employers were Carnival Cruise Line, Norwegian Cruise Line, Princess […]
Ahead of Tuesday’s Senate trial on impeachment, Joe Biden’s campaign is cautioning media outlets against “spreading a malicious and conclusively debunked conspiracy theory” regarding a conflict of interest between the former vice president’s policy work in Ukraine and his son […]
Elle n’avait pas prévu de devenir une mère adoptive. Cette semaine dans le magazine Gala, Véronique Jannot raconte comment sa rencontre avec Migmar, jeune orpheline tibétaine exilée, a changé sa vie – et fait d’elle une maman comblée. « Je […]
Politics makes strange bedfellows, but perhaps none have ever been stranger than the two celebrity lawyers just announced as part of Donald Trump’s impeachment defense team: Kenneth Starr and Alan Dershowitz. Starr played a central role in the events that […]