Responding to Putin’s remarks, Zelensky’s chief of staff Andriy Yermak said Russia “no longer has anything other than nuclear blackmail to intimidate the world”. Russian ally China has also called for calm, with reports President Xi Jinping has warned Putin against using nuclear arms. A new nuclear doctrine would “clearly set the conditions for Russia Continue reading
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Promises of ‘passive income’ on Amazon led to death threats for negative online review, FTC says
The message, whose sender claimed to be part of a “Russian shadow team,” contained Sanford’s home address, social security number and his daughter’s college. “Do not play tough guy,” the email said. “You have nothing to gain by keeping the reviews and EVERYTHING to lose by not cooperating.” Months earlier, Sanford had left a scathing Continue reading
Nikki Haley Says She Hasn’t Forgotten What Trump Said About Her Husband
LOADING ERROR LOADING Former GOP presidential candidate Nikki Haley admitted Wednesday that she doesn’t like Donald Trump’s personality and is still disturbed by the offensive remarks he made about her, her husband and his military service ― even though she endorsed his bid for president. Haley, who dropped out of the GOP primary race in Continue reading
Nikki Haley Says She Hasn’t Forgotten What Trump Said About Her Husband
LOADING ERROR LOADING Former GOP presidential candidate Nikki Haley admitted Wednesday that she doesn’t like Donald Trump’s personality and is still disturbed by the offensive remarks he made about her, her husband and his military service ― even though she endorsed his bid for president. Haley, who dropped out of the GOP primary race in Continue reading
Republicans Seem To Be A Far Greater Threat To Pets Than Immigrants
LOADING ERROR LOADING JD Vance, Donald Trump and other Republicans are clinging to a racist and thoroughly debunked lie that a group of legal immigrants in Ohio are abducting, killing and eating people’s pets. And yet, there’s a mountain of evidence — in the last week, month, year and half-century — that it’s Republicans who Continue reading
Government defeats no-confidence motion by 86 votes to 67
READ MORE Ceann Comhairle Seán Ó Fearghaíl said the debate had been “a disgrace” with constant heckling and interruptions between Government and Opposition benches. Meanwhile, Fianna Fáil TD Barry Cowen has faced criticism for his remarks during the debate where he said extending the eviction ban would be like “making sweets free for children”. “It’s Continue reading
Republicans Seem To Be A Far Greater Threat To Pets Than Immigrants
LOADING ERROR LOADING JD Vance, Donald Trump and other Republicans are clinging to a racist and thoroughly debunked lie that a group of legal immigrants in Ohio are abducting, killing and eating people’s pets. And yet, there’s a mountain of evidence — in the last week, month, year and half-century — that it’s Republicans who Continue reading
Congress funds the government but faces another shutdown threat before Christmas
WASHINGTON — Lawmakers averted a government shutdown 40 days before the election, but they’ll face another funding crunch right before the holidays and a new Congress and president take office. Yet there’s little time to pass those bills during the lame-duck session; House members and senators are scheduled to be in Washington for only five Continue reading
The ‘Aquaman Theory’ shows the risks of a second Trump term
During Barack Obama’s presidency, frustration among his supporters at unfulfilled campaign promises became so common that a political scientist coined a name for the phenomenon. These supporters, Dartmouth University’s Brendan Nyhan explained, were suffering from the Green Lantern Theory of the Presidency. The Obama supporters’ belief was that, just as the superhero Green Lantern could Continue reading
Columbia protesters’ demands have worked before. This time may be different.
In 1985, protesters had staged their divestment campaign — and it worked. Student protests are escalating there and other college campuses over the Israel-Gaza war and schools’ investments in Israeli entities, with demonstrators on Tuesday breaking into a Columbia campus building and occupying it. In the 1980s, student protesters at Columbia took over the same Continue reading