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Despite the pundit buzz surrounding the veepstakes, VP candidates rarely sway voters, and it follows from that historical pattern that vice presidential debates are unlikely to be consequential. They’re low-stakes affairs that feature candidates tasked with playing a supporting role: The candidates are meant to act as defenders or attack dogs on behalf of their Continue reading

When Republican vice-presidential candidate JD Vance takes the debate stage Tuesday, it may be the first time millions of Americans hear directly from the senator from Ohio. Trump, a former pitchman, voracious television watcher and skilled showman, is known to focus intensely on television performances, and his appreciation of Vance’s forceful defenses of him in Continue reading

In 2019, multiple women told NBC News that they had been sexually abused decades earlier by their “dorm dads” — missionaries tasked with caring for children at New Tribes Mission’s overseas boarding schools while their parents served in the field. The group issued a public apology to the abuse survivors following the NBC News report Continue reading

BEIRUT — Fears grew across Lebanon on Monday after Israel launched a strike on a residential building in central Beirut, marking a fresh escalation in a devastating bombing campaign that local officials say has already killed more than 1,000 people. “There’s no safe place guaranteed in Lebanon,” said Jihan Kaisi, the executive director of the Continue reading

DirecTV is buying Dish and Sling as the company, a deal it has sought to complete for years as seeks to better compete against streaming services that have become dominant DirecTV is buying Dish and Sling, a deal it has sought to complete for years, as the company seeks to better compete against streaming services Continue reading

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

Kate Barr is waging a sure-to-lose campaign for a seat in the North Carolina legislature as a protest against gerrymandering, which has made elections uncompetitive in states nationwide. In many state legislative and congressional districts across the country, aggressive gerrymandering has helped erase competitive elections, effectively guaranteeing the result and leaving voters without a real Continue reading

Filthy conditions, aging equipment and haphazard cleaning at the Jarratt, Va., plant may have made some of its products microbial time bombs waiting to explode. In mid-July, as listeria infection cases multiplied across the United States, Maryland health officials who track foodborne illnesses grew increasingly alarmed. “We were getting a lot of cases in a Continue reading

Despite the pundit buzz surrounding the veepstakes, VP candidates rarely sway voters, and it follows from that historical pattern that vice presidential debates are unlikely to be consequential. They’re low-stakes affairs that feature candidates tasked with playing a supporting role: The candidates are meant to act as defenders or attack dogs on behalf of their Continue reading

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