Trump indictment over 2020 election puts US in uncharted terrain | View caption Hide caption In a post on Truth Social soon after he learned of the new charges, Mr. Trump lashed out at special counsel Jack Smith, calling him “deranged” and accusing him of interfering with the 2024 election by “putting out yet another Fake…
Month: August 2023
Putin’s right-hand man makes chilling WW3 threat to ‘vanquish NATO enemies’
Vladimir Putin’s right-hand man Dmitri Medvedev issued a stark warning to and its NATO allies vowing to “vanquish” Russia’s enemies. Russia’s former president – and puppet – lashed out claiming that Moscow was al and warned that was strong enough to take on the defensive alliance. “The entire NATO system is almost openly fighting against…
Palestinian attack kills an Israeli patrol officer in Tel Aviv; shooter is killed
JERUSALEM — A Tel Aviv municipal patrol officer has died, Israeli officials said Saturday, after having been shot by a Palestinian on a street in central Tel Aviv. The suspect was then shot dead by another municipal patrol worker, Tel Aviv Mayor Ron Huldai told Israel’s public broadcaster. The Israeli police said in a statement…
San Francisco’s iconic Anchor Brewing is closing after 127 years
Anchor Brewing Co., the iconic San Francisco brewery opened in 1896 and purchased by Japan’s Sapporo in 2017, announced Wednesday it has stopped brewing its ales and will cease operations in the coming weeks. Anchor spokesman Sam Singer said the brewery was “losing millions of dollars a year” and had informed its 61 employees of…
Spain to vote in national election that could move the country right
Spain headed to the polls Sunday in a national election that could result in seismic changes for both Spanish citizens and the greater European Union. The conservative Popular Party (PP), led by Alberto Núñez Feijóo, appears likely to oust Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez and his Spanish Socialist Workers’ Party (PSOE) from power. Up-to-date polling shows the PP leading over…
Thrill seeker? Try adventure tourism.
Adventure tourists are rocketing into space, plumbing the ocean’s depths, and risking their lives in the pursuit of thrills. Here’s everything you need to know: What is “extreme tourism”? Wealthy adventurers are paying huge sums to scale the world’s highest peaks, trek to the poles, descend to the ocean’s depths, and seek out some of…
‘Euphoria’ star Angus Cloud dies at 25
Angus Cloud, the actor who starred as Fezco “Fez” O’Neill on the HBO series “Euphoria,” has died, his family announced Monday. He was 25. In a statement, Cloud’s family said that last week, “he buried his father and intensely struggled with this loss. The only comfort we have is knowing Angus is now reunited with…
Should taxpayers fund religious schools?
A school board in Oklahoma recently voted to approve public funding for a Catholic virtual charter school run by local dioceses. When it opens next year, St. Isidore of Seville Virtual Catholic Charter School, named after the patron saint of the internet, will be the nation’s first publicly funded religious charter school. Its approval has…
Twitter has reportedly threatened to sue Meta over Threads
Threads, Meta’s response to Twitter, has been live for just about 24 hours and it’s already stirring up some legal trouble. Per reports from both ABC News and Semafor, Twitter’s legal team has allegedly accused Meta of “deliberately” copying the Twitter application and poaching former Twitter employees to do so. “Over the past year, Meta…