Mike DeWine (R) on Tuesday said Donald Trump’s and JD Vance’s false claims about immigrants are “very hurtful” to the people of Springfield. “The mayor says there’s no evidence, chief of police says there’s no evidence, city manager says there was no evidence, there’s no evidence. There’s no evidence of this at all,” DeWine said Continue reading
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Inquiry into Defence Forces failings ‘as soon as possible’, Varadkar says
Photograph: Ludovic Marin/AFP/Getty Images The Government is keen to have a statutory inquiry into allegations of sexual misconduct, bullying and discrimination in the Defence Forces up and running “as soon as possible”, Taoiseach Leo Varadkar has said. Speaking during Leaders’ Questions in the Dáil on Wednesday, the Taoiseach said a report on the Defence Forces Continue reading
MrBeast and Amazon sued by competitors from his $5M reality show over alleged ‘unsafe’ conditions
MrBeast is accused of creating “unsafe” employment conditions and misrepresenting contestants’ odds at winning his new Amazon reality show’s $5 million grand prize MrBeast and Amazon sued by competitors from his $5M reality show over alleged ‘unsafe’ conditions NEW YORK — MrBeast is accused of creating “unsafe” employment conditions, including sexual harassment, and misrepresenting contestants’ Continue reading
Bear Grylls Meets President Zelenskyy review: TV action man eager to set the world to rights
But under the facial fuzz, it’s still the same Grylls Irish viewers will recognise from Running Wild with Bear Grylls, Bear Grylls Survival Story and other dollops of small-screen derring-do. He remains, in other words, the light entertainment equivalent of Tigger from Winnie the Pooh, bounding into the danger zones relying on nothing beyond a Continue reading
Pressed on grocery prices, Trump struggles to answer (again)
At his latest town-hall-style event, Donald Trump was asked by a woman in Michigan how, in a second term, he’d bring down the cost of groceries. The former president responded with a great many words, including comments about windmills, though he didn’t quite get around to answering the question directly. To the extent that there Continue reading
How the Boar’s Head plant closure could wreck this tiny Virginia town
JARRATT, Va. — Raheem Bittle needed a job straight out of high school and knew just where to go in this tiny rural town in Southside Virginia: Boar’s Head. “I had a son on the way and I went there to support them,” said Bittle, 27, who started eight years ago at $500 to $600 Continue reading
Elon Musk’s Starlink satellites ‘blocking’ view of the universe
Lead author Cees Bassa said it was like comparing the “faintest stars visible to the naked eye and the brightness of the full Moon.” “Since SpaceX is launching about 40 second-generation Starlink satellites every week, this problem is becoming increasingly worse,” he added. Robert Massey, Deputy Executive Director of the Royal Astronomical Society in the Continue reading
Now a Roe advocate, woman raped by stepfather as a child tells her story in Harris campaign ad
WASHINGTON (AP) — A 22-year-old woman who became an abortion rights advocate after she was raped by her stepfather as a child tells her story in a new campaign ad for Democratic presidential nominee Kamala Harris. Hadley Duvall says in voiceover that she’s never slept a full night in her life — her stepfather first Continue reading
Hezbollah pagers that exploded were made in Hungary, Taiwanese company says
Hundreds of pagers that exploded in Lebanon and Syria in an apparent operation targeting members of Hezbollah bore the brand of a Taiwanese company, though the firm’s chair told reporters Wednesday that another company in Budapest manufactured the devices. Near-simultaneous detonations of pagers used by members of the Iran-backed Hezbollah terror group killed at least Continue reading
Police shift focus in search for Kentucky highway shooting suspect: ‘Boots on the ground’
Police shift focus in search for Kentucky highway shooting suspect: ‘Boots on the ground’ On Tuesday, law enforcement officials scaled back on their search to focus on increasing their presence in nearby residential areas. Show Caption Hide Caption London, Kentucky shooting update: Search for Joseph Couch continues Kentucky State Police Trooper Scottie Pennington updates the Continue reading