USA Update

The Republican candidate in Wisconsin, businessman Eric Hovde, took several opportunities during the only Senate debate between himself and Sen. Tammy Baldwin, D-Wis., on Friday night to call her out for refusing to disclose her partner’s finances, calling it a conflict of interest.  “Her partner on Wall Street, a Wall Street executive, is investing in […]

Republicans have spent months laying the groundwork to challenge a defeat of Donald Trump in the presidential election. During a fund-raising call organized by corporate lawyers in September, Douglas Emhoff, the husband of Vice President Kamala Harris, asked for help if those efforts veer outside legal grounds. According to two people on the call, Emhoff […]

EXCLUSIVE: British filmmaker Havana Marking was set to debut her latest project Undercover: Exposing The Far Right, an undercover documentary about far-right communities in the UK, this evening at the London Film Festival.  However, the doc will now world premiere on Channel 4 on October 21 after the London Film Festival pulled the film from […]

Archaeologists in Peru have excavated a monumental chamber featuring elaborate murals of snakes, and a pillared hall with a worn throne, which they say bears clues suggesting a powerful woman ruled there more than 1,300 years ago. The site, Pañamarca, was a religious and political center for the ancient Moche culture, which flourished for centuries […]

Dear readers, I don’t require a dedicated ghost-story season. To me, that would be like loving people only on Feb. 14, or pretending canned tomatoes don’t exist. Besides, as I understand it, ghosts don’t work on schedule. But in case you’re stricter than the undead and I, here are two less explicit examples of the […]

on Friday made its largest-ever drug bust, seizing 8.4 tonnes of unspecified drugs valued at more than 2 billion pesos ($100 million, €91.95 million). “This represents the largest quantity of drugs seized in a maritime operation, without precedent in the history of the institution,” the navy said in a statement. Authorities also arrested 23 people, […]

A new video released by the Ukrainian government’s Center for Strategic Communication and Information Security appears to show North Korean soldiers at a Russian military base. The center said the footage shows North Korean troops “being outfitted in Russian gear” at Russia’s Sergievsky training ground “in preparation for deployment to Ukraine.” Exclusive – Newly obtained […]

For years, Black men have been an integral part of the Democratic coalition.  In 2012, 87 percent of Black men backed former President Barack Obama; in 2016, 82 percent backed former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton; and in 2020, 79 percent backed President Joe Biden, according to NBC exit polls. This year, 70 percent have […]

WASHINGTON — Over the past four years, judges at Washington’s federal courthouse have punished hundreds of rioters who stormed the U.S. Capitol in an unprecedented assault on the nation’s democracy. On the cusp of the next presidential election, some of those judges fear another burst of political violence could be coming. Before recently sentencing a rioter […]

LONDON — King Charles III has expressed “deep love and affection” for Australia, a former part of the British Empire. As he visits the country this weekend, he may find that Australians don’t feel quite as much affection for him. Charles and Queen Camilla arrived Friday evening local time in Sydney, where a tribute on […]