Despite president-elect's vow, energy companies focus on managing resources to be profitable, not pumping more oilAt the Republican national convention in July, Donald Trump pledged to cut gas prices by boosting domestic oil production. We will drill, baby, drill," he declared.Despite the president-elect's promise, oil and gas companies probably have other ideas. For the past few years, US energy producers have focused on keeping costs down to stay profitable, balancing between producing enough oil to satisfy global energy needs and paying shareholders big dividends, according to energy experts. That's unlikely to change soon. Continue reading...
Veterans on Patrol believes government caused Helene with weather manipulation tech, Telegram chats revealA vigilante militia notorious for its patrols on America's border with Mexico has threatened to take on the US military in recent weeks, with its founder baselessly claiming that Hurricane Helene was deliberately caused by a government energy weapon that needs to be destroyed, according to private and public Telegram chats.Veterans on Patrol's (VOP's) conversations reveal that members believe the outlandish conspiracy theory that the US government caused the hurricane with weather manipulation technology, that the US military is spraying the American people with poisons, and that members should be willing to destroy government facilities in order to stop these activities. Continue reading...
Kremlin ups rhetoric over decision to allow Kyiv to use US long-range missiles inside Russia. Plus, dozens of Hong Kong pro-democracy activists jailedGood morning.Vladimir Putin has signed a decree lowering the threshold for using nuclear weapons, as the Kremlin intensified its rhetoric over Joe Biden's decision to permit Kyiv to use US-made long-range missiles for strikes inside Russia.What does the new nuclear doctrine say? It outlines the conditions under which Russia's leadership might consider launching a nuclear strike.It states that an attack using conventional missiles, drones, or other aircraft could be seen as justification for a nuclear response.What is the humanitarian cost of Russia's invasion of Ukraine? The UN said in August, that at least 11,743 Ukrainian civilians have been killed, and president Volodymyr Zelenskyy said, in February, that 31,000 Ukrainian service members had been killed.The plans: Federalize state national guard personnel and deploy them for immigration enforcement, including sending troops from friendly Republican-governed states into neighboring states with governors who decline to participate.The cost: According to an estimate by the American Immigration Council, deporting 1 million people a year would cost more than $960bn over a decade.The criticisms: The American Civil Liberties Union has attacked Trump's immigration plans as inhumane". Continue reading...
The rookie head coach has had early success in LA, despite accusations of croneyism. Rivals could well take a chance when it comes to recruitmentThirteen games into the Los Angeles Lakers' season, freshman head coach JJ Redick is not the headline story - and that's a story in and of itself. There are, of course, plenty of other storylines for the Lakers already this year: for starters, the rumblings that they haven't done enough to provide a competent supporting cast around superstars Anthony Davis and LeBron James, the former of whom is having an MVP-caliber start to the season. Then there are the cries of nepotism at the signing of James' son, Bronny. They may not be true championship contenders, but at 9-4 the Lakers look, at least, like a solidly good NBA team. One might never guess that their coach has only a few weeks of experience.Redick, the sharpshooting NBA veteran turned podcaster turned broadcaster turned head coach, faced plenty of scrutiny when he was appointed this summer, dealing with accusations that he'd skipped the line" or that he'd only been granted the job opportunity in order to appease LeBron, Redick's podcast co-host as recently as this year. It's been widely reported, after all, that the only head coaching experience Redick possessed before he got the Lakers gig was with his son's youth team. When I asked him, a few months ago at his introductory press conference, what he was most looking forward to disproving from the chorus of naysayers, he (now infamously) said he didn't give a fuck". It's possible, of course, that the once chronically online Redick may have been trying to convince himself of this sentiment as much as he was trying to persuade the rest of the world. But it's clear that the one-time Duke legend has tuned out the noise enough to stay focused on the task at hand. Continue reading...
Sponsors and broadcasters are biding their time while the players' union has filed a lawsuit over plans for 2025 eventThis is the one thing the former Fifa president Sepp Blatter admits he should not have done: create the Fifa Club World Cup. It was a mistake," he told the Swiss daily 24 heures last month. Fifa must concern itself with national federations, not clubs." Yet this mistake" is a part of Blatter's legacy that his successor, Gianni Infantino, had no hesitation to embrace.As early as 2016 Infantino, nine months after his election, had proposed an expanded version to replace the old format, which, since 2005, had involved seven teams - the six continental champions plus a representative of the host country - every December, over a period of 10 days. We need to make the Club World Cup more interesting for teams, and also for fans around the world," he said. That will attract more sponsors and television companies from around the world." Continue reading...
The far-right leader may be banned from running in the next French presidential election - and she's responded with all guns blazingEveryone has stolen from the cash register except the National Front!" exclaimed Marine Le Pen on French TV in 2004, commenting on an embezzlement scandal unfolding in Paris's city council. At the time she had yet to become the leader of her father's far-right party or to run three times for president. French people are fed up with elected officials who embezzle public money."Flash forward 20 years and Le Pen - along with 24 other National Rally (RN) party officials, employees, former EU lawmakers and parliamentary assistants - stands accused of having embezzled more than 4m from the European parliament. She furiously denies any wrongdoing. The case centres on an alleged fake job scheme - she and the others are accused of using EU funds to pay staff in France who were working for the party.Pauline Bock is a French journalist based in ParisDo you have an opinion on the issues raised in this article? If you would like to submit a response of up to 300 words by email to be considered for publication in our letters section, please click here. Continue reading...
Wyoming was the only state to explicitly ban abortion pills - one of the laws struck down on MondayA Wyoming judge has struck down the state's overall ban on abortion and its first-in-the-country explicit prohibition on the use of medication to end pregnancy - in line with voters in further states voicing support for abortion rights.The Teton county district judge, Melissa Owens, has ruled three times since 2022 to block the laws while they were disputed in court. Continue reading...
Suit accuses Club Q of lax security and says authorities' deliberate inaction' enabled shooter to carry out attackTwo days shy of the second anniversary of a hate-fueled mass shooting at a queer nightclub in Colorado Springs, victims and mothers of those killed have filed lawsuits against the club for lax security and against the sheriff's office for failing to trigger the state's red flag law to disarm the shooter and ensure they could not purchase any more weapons.Club Q advertised itself as a safe place' for LGBTQIA+ individuals. But that was a facade," read the two complaints, which contain allegations of negligence. Continue reading...
Gigantiello, who let singer film in church, stripped of duties after inquiry shows he sent parish funds to Eric Adams aideThe leader of a New York City church where pop star Sabrina Carpenter filmed provocative scenes for a music video was stripped of his duties on Monday after church officials said an investigation revealed other instances of mismanagement.Monsignor Jamie Gigantiello was relieved of any pastoral oversight or governance role" at his church located in the Williamsburg neighborhood of Brooklyn, Bishop Robert Brennan said in a statement issued by the Roman Catholic Diocese of Brooklyn. Continue reading...
Former Republican congressman from Wisconsin was also a cast member on MTV's The Real World: BostonDonald Trump has named Sean Duffy, a former Republican congressman from Wisconsin,and former cast member of the MTV show The Real World, to serve as the secretary of transportation. He was also a co-host on Fox Business but left that role on Monday, according to Fox News Media.Duffy served in Congress from 2011 until 2019. Before being elected to public office, he was district attorney for Ashland county, Wisconsin, from 2002 to 2008 and previously had a reality TV show role. Duffy was a cast member on The Real World: Boston in 1997 where he would meet his wife, Fox news contributor Rachel Campos-Duffy. Continue reading...
City also pauses major repairs to aqueduct as residents and local agencies ordered to cut down on water usageNew York City on Monday issued its first drought warning in 22 years and paused major repairs to its main water aqueduct out of concern for the lack of rainfall.Dry conditions across the north-east have been blamed for hundreds of brush fires. They had already prompted New York and state officials to implement water-conservation protocols when Mayor Eric Adams upgraded the drought warning and temporarily halted the $2 bn Delaware aqueduct project, which was intended to repair leaks in the 80-year-old tunnel. Continue reading...
President-elect's surrogates accuse president of seeking to spark world war three' over decision to allow limited strikesAllies of the president-elect, Donald Trump, have lashed out angrily at Joe Biden for his decision to permit Ukraine to use long-range US missiles to launch attacks inside Russia for the first time, in what the Kremlin has termed an escalation" in the war.Key Trump surrogates, including his son Donald Trump Jr, hardline congressional Republicans, and other backers have accused Biden of seeking to spark world war three" before Trump's presidential inauguration in January. Continue reading...
Suit made against Ice comes as Trump vows to deport millions of undocumented immigrants upon taking officeThe American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) has filed a lawsuit against Immigration and Customs Enforcement (Ice) seeking more information about how the agency might carry out Donald Trump's plans for a mass deportation program.The US president-elect has vowed to deport millions of undocumented immigrants upon taking office, a threat that he has doubled down on since winning the presidential race earlier this month. On Monday, Trump confirmed a report that he intended to declare a national emergency to activate military resources as part of the mass deportation operation. Continue reading...
Ruling of 4-3 ends issue in which some Democratic counties ignored precedent and counted ballots that weren't datedPennsylvania counties must not count mail-in ballots from voters who did not date their envelopes, the state supreme court ruled on Monday, ending a simmering issue in which some Democratic counties were ignoring prior court rulings and counting the ballots anyway.[W]e have clarified that mail-in and absentee ballots that fail to comply with the requirements of the Pennsylvania Election Code, shall not be counted for purposes of the election held on November 5, 2024," the majority wrote. Continue reading...
Supporters argue Bible verses contextualize art and literature as opponents say it is biased towards ChristianityTexas education officials are expected to hold a vote on Monday on the use of Bible readings in the public school curriculum for kindergarten through fifth grade English and language arts classes.The board listened to hours of testimonies from those for and against Bluebonnet learning", a new curriculum that will affect millions of the state's elementary public school students. Continue reading...
Lawyer representing two women alleges Gaetz paid them for sex and that one witnessed him having sex with minorAn attorney representing two women who he says testified before the House ethics committee has claimed that the former congressman Matt Gaetz paid both women for sex and that one of the women alleged she witnessed Gaetz having sex with a minor.The new allegations were revealed by the attorney Joel Leppard during an interview with ABC News on Monday - less than a week after Gaetz resigned from Congress following his nomination by Donald Trump to serve as attorney general in his second administration. Continue reading...
Weihong Hu, a New York City hotel developer, was previously the subject of a joint investigation by the Guardian, the City and DocumentedFederal law enforcement agents have raided a hotel owned by a businesswoman who has been linked to potentially illegal campaign contributions to the New York City mayor, Eric Adams.Federal officials executed a search warrant on Thursday at a hotel that the hotel developer Weihong Hu owns in Long Island City, Queens, according to three sources with knowledge of the matter. The hotel hosts a shelter program for formerly incarcerated people which has resulted in millions of city contract dollars going to Hu's business. Continue reading...
Leadership accused of betraying party values after sudden announcement of layoffs without severanceThe union representing workers at the Democratic National Committee (DNC) has accused the party's leadership of a callous" betrayal of party values after the sudden announcement of layoffs of permanent employees without severance.Despite record-breaking fundraising, the DNC failed to provide any financial support to those who have tirelessly served the Democratic Party and its mission," said the union in a press release. Continue reading...
Golden Girls actor appears on illustrated stamp that exudes her spritely sense of fun' for 2025 releaseThe late actor Betty White will be honored with a US postage stamp bearing her likeness starting in 2025, according to officials.The US Postal Service (USPS) announced on Friday that it would be releasing a postal stamp featuring a digital illustration of White. Continue reading...
Dutch photographer Robin de Puy travelled across the US to find underrepresented voices during a turbulent time for a new project examining a country under strain. The portraits will be displayed in a series of billboards across Nevada's Route 50, highlighting the path that was taken to find the Americans on show Continue reading...
Zelenskyy must now show that missiles will change this war, and his European allies must unify ahead of the Trump presidencyUS president Joe Biden's last-gasp decision to permit Ukraine to fire western-made, long-range missiles at military targets deep inside Russian territory runs the risk of triggering a sharp increase in retaliatory sabotage, such as cyber and arson attacks on Britain and its European Nato partners.Vladimir Putin, who ordered the full-scale, illegal invasion of Ukraine 1,000 days ago tomorrow, has long warned that Kyiv's expanded use of US-, British- and French-made missiles would be viewed by Moscow as an act of war by Nato, and could trigger catastrophic consequences. Now Putin's bluff, if it is a bluff, is being called. Continue reading...
The world's best-loved naturalist has had his voice cloned - and misused - by AI. Soon, we won't believe anything we hear unless we are in the same room as the speakerIt sounds too fanciful and too outrageous to be true, but nothing is too outrageous for the world the tech bros have bequeathed us. The BBC has revealed that various websites and YouTube channels are using AI to clone the voice of David Attenborough and get him to say things - about Russia, about the US election - that surely he would never say.It's not the first time it has happened to a celebrity - Scarlett Johansson refused to license her voice to ChatGPT and accused them of creating it anyway, in a character called Sky. ChatGPT's developer, OpenAI, said Sky was a different professional actress using her own natural speaking voice", but it pulled the voice out of respect for Ms Johansson". Elsewhere, lawyers continue to tussle, using precedents that pre-date the existence of AI by several decades, which is to say with one hand tied behind their back. Continue reading...
We're keen to hear from people who were legally able to vote in the election but did not, and want to know whyThe 2024 US election was heralded by both sides as one of the most crucial contests in recent American history with Democrats in particular warning of the threat of a Donald Trump return to the White House.Both sides urged their supporters to come to the polls to save the nation. Continue reading...
Republican president-elect says he wants to dismantle the US education department and fire radical left accreditors'Donald Trump hates the state of higher education in the US so much that he wants to start a new online university that will dole out bachelor's degrees free of charge to challenge existing colleges.Trump has also vowed to deport pro-Hamas radicals and make our college campuses safe and patriotic again". He wants to dramatically alter the accreditation process that ensures colleges meet set standards, opening the door for programs that currently do not. Continue reading...
Villa Vie Residences says program will cost less than $40,000 a year and traverse 425 ports across 140 countriesAs Donald Trump prepares to begin his second four-year term, one cruise company is giving Americans the choice to opt out and escape.The residential cruise line Villa Vie Residences announced earlier in November that it was launching a program that will allow travelers to join its ship, the Odyssey, at any port as it traverses around the world for the next several years. The trip is expected to travel to 425 ports across 140 countries, and the program will cost less than $40,000 a year, according to a company statement. Continue reading...
The movement seeking to confront US responsibility in Israel's war by withholding votes offered Americans moral clarityIn the days following the 2024 election, a cadre of pundits have been eager to call the uncommitted voters' impact on the presidential race both a failure and a significant factor in Vice-President Kamala Harris's loss. Despite those contradicting analyses, the movement's success lies not in its voter count, but rather in the clarity it offered voters, even those who changed their minds and chose to vote for Harris in the end.As with the anti-war campaigns of the 1960s, the Uncommitted National Movement, the more than 500,000-person effort which called on Americans against the genocide in Gaza to withhold their votes, was a representation of the nation's shifting consciousness around US responsibility in Israel's war. By asking the public to confront imperialism, the movement opened the door to a confrontation between the people and the Democratic party, awakening its voters to an issue once seen as someone else's concern. Continue reading...
President-elect has expressed desire for mass firings of civil service workers to be replaced with political appointeesDonald Trump's return to office sets the stage for harassment, intimidation and old fashioned corruption" to spread throughout the US federal government, a top union leader has warned.The president-elect and his allies have expressed support for the mass firing of civil service workers and abolishing certain government agencies upon his return to the White House. Continue reading...
Ukraine will be permitted to fire US missiles in Kursk region. Plus, attorneys would be unable to stop Trump's potential Capitol rioters pardon Don't already get First Thing in your inbox? Sign up hereGood morning.Joe Biden has lifted the ban on Ukraine using long-range missiles to fire into Russian territory by permitting them to be used against Russian and North Korean forces in the Kursk region.How did Russia react? So far, Vladimir Putin has not said anything. But Vladimir Dzhabarov, the first deputy head of the Russian upper house's international affairs committee, said: This is a very big step towards the start of world war three."How could this change the war? Ukraine has recently been losing ground on the frontline, and the deployment of thousands of North Korean troops threatened to tilt the war further in Russia's favor. As Trump signals his desire to wind up the war with ceasefire negotiations - which critics say will mean, in effect, a Russian land grab - the use of long-range missiles gives Ukraine an opportunity to hang on to its territorial gains in Russia's Kursk region. It could become a key bargaining chip. But it's also likely to escalate the conflict.What could be the impact of RFK Jr's nomination? Dr Michael Osterholm, the director of the Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy at the University of Minnesota, said even if public policies remained unchanged, authorities from the federal government speaking out against vaccines discourages people who might otherwise be vaccinated, and at that point that's as bad as not having a vaccine at all". Continue reading...
By appealing to Trump's vanity about his legacy, perhaps we can prevent his presidency from being a geopolitical nightmareThe nightmare has arrived. Trump's America First" norm-flouting was bad enough the last time around, when a collection of traditional Republicans in senior positions moderated his worst impulses. No such grown-ups are expected to return.Our only hope may be that Trump no longer must worry about re-election. Instead of pandering to - and promoting - the worst instincts of his base, Trump, long preoccupied by his image, may begin to contemplate his legacy. Will history mock or admire him? The greater his concern with his lasting reputation, the better our chances of averting disaster.Kenneth Roth, executive director of Human Rights Watch from 1993 to 2022, is a visiting professor at Princeton's School of Public and International Affairs Continue reading...
With president-elect likely to use DoJ to crush enemies, only hope lies in staffers refusing to carry out illegal ordersAs Donald Trump moves fast to expand his influence over prosecutorial and legal decisions while revamping the US justice department, concerns are rising quickly about how he may abuse his powers to target political foes for retribution" as he often suggested during his campaign, say ex-federal prosecutors.Fueling those fears was the president-elect's stunning decision to choose ultra-loyalist and firebrand Florida representative Matt Gaetz to be his attorney general and help fight what Trump calls a weaponized government" that he says baselessly used a special counsel to file criminal charges against him for trying to subvert his 2020 election loss. Continue reading...
I've had enough of depriving myself. Give me a holiday, give me Campari, give me a soft, happy bodySupport for seasonal self-love comes from an unexpected quarter: the French daily Liberation has issued a plea for us to embrace our winter buddy". That's a soft, friendly winter body, forged of chestnut-based desserts, cheese and chouquettes, those sugar-topped mini choux buns they sell by the dozen in French bakeries (I've never seen a basket of them that didn't make me yearn to unhinge my jaw and consume it in one gulp, like a python with a nest of bird's eggs).This winter buddy stuff is pure French fancy. The article conjures a wild, wish-fulfilled universe, in which having a bit of solstice padding makes you sexually irresistible rather than drawing barbed comments from your mother-in-law. I bet French intellectuals will remain whippety slim and elegant, though it's reassuring to realise they're probably dreaming of raclette, that nutritionist's nightmare of molten cheese, potato and charcuterie. Continue reading...
Ursula von der Leyen knows that her new commission will need support from the kind of hard-right parties it once swore to shunMany observers breathed a sigh of relief earlier this year when the mainstream, pro-EU alliance - of centre-left, centre-right and liberal parties - held on to its majority in the European parliament elections. These parties, which have governed Europe for the past four decades, are to endorse Ursula von der Leyen's new European Commission by the end of the month, with the declared goal of making the European economy greener, more competitive and more secure.Yet behind this business as usual account of EU political power lies a different, less reassuring reality. Von der Leyen's commission has not even taken office yet, but already the far right is punching well above its weight. And it will be emboldened by the return of Donald Trump to the White House.Alberto Alemanno is the Jean Monnet professor of EU law at HEC Paris and visiting democracy fellow and scholar at Harvard University Continue reading...
No politician can win without a coalition of voters. Do Democrats know who theirs are?In September 1981, 10 months after Ronald Reagan's sweeping 44-state victory over Jimmy Carter, 100 leading elected Democratic officials privately convened to formulate a response to Reaganism. Alan Cranston of California, the Senate minority whip, began the meeting with a fundamental question: If our party is a coalition, unlike the Republicans, who tend to represent a single group, what are the common denominators, transcending regional differences and local interests, which make us a national party?"In the four decades since the fracturing of the New Deal order, an answer to this question has largely eluded the Democratic party. Of the United States' 20 highest-median-income states, Kamala Harris won 18; of the 20 lowest, Harris won just three. Democrats reliably win the counties that produce the majority of American economic output; Harris's losing base consisted of counties collectively representing 60% of the GDP. Yet the Democrats continue to depend upon some portion - smaller and smaller each election - of the less-affluent denizens of metropolitan America. The result is a deeply bifurcated coalition with little by way of a unifying common denominator".Alex Bronzini-Vender is a writer living in New York Continue reading...
On an afternoon that saw Pittsburgh hold off Baltimore and Buffalo end Kansas City's perfect season, the AFC's top tier appears even more tightly packed than beforeThere were two games on Sunday that allowed fans and analysts to get a very good read on the AFC. In the early slate, there was the now 8-2 Pittsburgh Steelers v the now 7-4 Baltimore Ravens. In the late slate, it was the Kansas City Chiefs v the Buffalo Bills.Ravens quarterback Lamar Jackson has been great against most opponents as a passer, but the Steelers have had his number. In six previous career games against Baltimore's most prominent divisional opponent, Jackson had completed 78 passes on 132 attempts for 870 yards, four touchdowns, seven interceptions, and a passer rating of 66.8 - by far his lowest against any opponent. And against Pittsburgh on Sunday, Jackson completed just 16 of 33 passes for 207 yards, one touchdown, one interception, and a passer rating of... 66.1. Pittsburgh has a knack for forcing Jackson to stay in the pocket, compressing things with pressure, and blanketing his receivers with tight coverage. Continue reading...
It's not hard to draw a line between Trumpism and the rise of Jake Paul, another boastful celebrity who keeps insisting he is the best until huge segments of the population believe himDo not dismiss Jake Paul as the butt of the joke. The YouTuber turned boxer earned a reported $40m after for meeting Mike Tyson on Friday night in a highly anticipated fight in Arlington, Texas. More than 60 million households worldwide tuned in to watch the mismatch between 58-year-old Tyson and the 27-year-old Paul, according to Netflix. The fight went the full eight-round distance, but from the opening minutes it was evident Tyson would lose. His legs clung to the canvas while he bit his glove like a child dependent on a thumb, even as Paul's hands frequently dropped to his waist. Paul did not win the bout because he is a great boxer; he won because Tyson was far too old. This narrative may sound eerily familiar. Donald Trump did not win the presidency because he was an infallible candidate; he won because Biden was too old to run again - and Biden didn't realize that, much like Tyson, until too many rounds in.Like Paul, Trump has long been the punchline of jokes. Until he pivoted to his current career, the reality TV star was underestimated due to his cringey persona. But as Americans have learned over the last decade, when Trump says he will do something, he will genuinely try to do it, and as the most recent election results have proven, he may very well succeed. The boastful celebrity who keeps saying he is the best until large segments of the population believe him is a rhetorical strategy no so different than what's been attempted by Paul during his own pivot from influencer to professional boxer. In 2017, Paul cultivated the fastest-growing channel in YouTube's history at the time, in part simply by declaring he would and manifesting it into existence. Continue reading...
They called me wormy' in the playground - but I've come to see that while it isn't pretty, it's mineWormy! Wormy! Come here, Wormy!" I'm seven years old, arms wrapped across my legs like a protective shield, while a group of older kids tease me in the playground with the unflattering nickname that would plague my childhood.A moniker derived from my surname, Worman (pronounced War-mon," not Worm-man," although such nuances eluded my classmates in the 90s), the simple act of rescuing a worm from being unceremoniously cut in half would earn me the unfortunate title for nearly a decade. How clever they must have felt when they put two and two together, and how infuriating it was for me. From then on, I hated my rare surname and the joking that came with it.Evelyn Rose Worman is a writer who has previously worked in advertising Continue reading...
As authoritarians triumph by lying and scapegoating, there is no hope for centrists doubling down on a broken neoliberal systemThe most useful lesson of growing up under a dictatorship is that dictatorships are never absolute. Sometimes they are even democracies - ones that thrive by co-opting those with proximity to power and managing those who do not benefit. That management is often through brute oppression, but mainly it is through securing consent by convincing enough people that things are about to get really great. Any minute now, once the enemies of the people are thwarted, a corner will be turned. Authoritarian democracies recognise anger, foment it, then bottle it for their own purposes.The trick is to always have a horizon, distant but in sight, beyond which things will get better. While this happens, the trappings of national success assuage the masses and give a sense of power, prosperity and momentum. In Egypt, as the jails swelled with political prisoners, the military government erected grand pharaonic monuments and embarked on a colossal construction project in the capital. In India, Narendra Modi entrenched authoritarianism while he wooed big business and launched enormous infrastructure projects and Hindu temples. Dictators establish themselves as both great modernisers and stabilisers, promising both conservatism and futurism. They emphasise traditions and values but wrap these up in technology, urbanisation and even a certain aesthetic - clean lines, mirrors, glass and steel skyscrapers.Nesrine Malik is a Guardian columnist Continue reading...
The US ambassador to Australia, Caroline Kennedy, has described her cousin Robert F Kennedy Jr's views on vaccines as 'dangerous'. 'I would say that our family is united in terms of our support for the public health sector and infrastructure and has the greatest admiration for the medical profession in our country,' she said at the National Press Club. 'And Bobby Kennedy has got a different set of views.' Donald Trump, the US president-elect, has nominated RFK Jr to oversee the country's key health agencies
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Outgoing US ambassador to Australia discusses Trump's pick for health secretary, and concedes climate action under president-elect may not be as fast'The outgoing US ambassador to Australia, Caroline Kennedy, has labelled her cousin Robert F Kennedy Jr's views on vaccines dangerous".After a speech to the National Press Club in Canberra, Australia on Monday, Caroline Kennedy took aim at a number of Trump administration appointees including Tulsi Gabbard, warning that her appointment would obviously ... be of great concern". Continue reading...
Speaking at the National Press Club, Caroline Kennedy says the US has no more trusted or capable ally' than Australia. 'Australia may be a middle power but to the United States, you are number one,' Kennedy says. 'We have no more trusted or capable ally. In every dimension of our relationship, I have seen the United States rely on Australian leadership and experience' Continue reading...
Carr has claimed Google, Facebook, Apple and Microsoft censor' Americans and criticized NBC for letting Harris appear on Saturday Night LivePresident-elect Donald Trump will tap Brendan Carr, a critic of the Biden administration's telecom policies and big tech, as chair of the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), he has said in a statement.Carr, 45, is the top Republican on the FCC, the independent agency that regulates telecommunications. Continue reading...
US president-elect Donald Trump attended an Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) event with billionaire friend Elon Musk and cheering fans at a heavily guarded Madison Square Garden in New York City on Sunday night. He was greeted by UFC personalities Joe Rogan and Dana White.
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