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Independent candidate for president selects Shanahan, 38, a wealthy philanthropist formerly married to Sergey BrinRobert F Kennedy Jr selected Nicole Shanahan, a tech attorney and wealthy philanthropist, as his running mate in an independent campaign that could upset the 2024 race for the White House.Kennedy, an environmental attorney who gained notoriety as a vaccine sceptic and conspiracy theorist, announced his pick at a campaign event on Tuesday in Oakland, California, where Shanahan was born. Continue reading...
Locals gather at convenience store near entrance of bridge - closest they could get - as search under way for missingAcross Baltimore residents were struggling to make sense of what had happened after waking up to news of the collapse of the Francis Scott Key Bridge, one of the city's main thoroughfares. It seems impossible," said Reginald Jones, a 67-year-old Baltimore resident.The bridge crumpled into the Patapsco River like a house of cards at 1.30am on Tuesday after it was struck by a giant cargo ship leaving the city's port. Continue reading...
Trump Media & Technology trading on Nasdaq under DJT' ticker, using Trump's initials and closing up 15% after first day of tradingThe firm behind Donald Trump's Truth Social went public on Tuesday at a price that values the minnow social network at close to $8bn.Shares in Digital World Acquisition, the shell company with which Trump's social media business has merged, have been surging since the turn of the year. Continue reading...
The Biden administration U-turned as its frustration with Benjamin Netanyahu grew. But don't expect much moreThe extent of the Biden administration's shift at the United Nations security council on Monday should not be underestimated. The US is not only by far Israel's most important ally and supplier of aid, but has provided it with stalwart diplomatic support. That it abstained instead of vetoing a resolution demanding an immediate ceasefire - as it had previously done - was a major departure and leaves Israel looking extremely isolated, as Benjamin Netanyahu's angry reaction showed.Yet the US has since done its best to talk down its decision, with officials insisting that there has been no change in policy and describing the resolution as non-binding. That is not the view of other security council members or the UN itself. Antonio Guterres, the UN secretary general, wrote that it would be unforgivable" to fail to implement the resolution, which also called for the unconditional release of hostages. But Israeli airstrikes have continued. Continue reading...
Joe Biden said the federal government would pay for the reconstruction of a bridge in Baltimore after it collapsed when a container ship collided with it, sending a number of vehicles into the water.The US president said the rescue effort was the top priority' as several people remained unaccounted for after the Francis Scott Key Bridge collapse
A bridge in the US city of Baltimore has snapped and collapsed after a ship collided with one of its support columns. Rescuers are searching the water for survivors and the state's governor has declared a state of emergency.A video analysis shows the ships movements in the moments before the collision Continue reading...
In the data-driven, optimisation-obsessed corner of the internet, everything has its optimal moment, and washing is no exceptionOne of my favourite things to do in my middle age is lie on the sofa eating crisps while Googling low-effort ways to optimise my life.Thanks to data-driven obsessives online, I have discovered that there is an optimal time at which to do everything. Exercising in the afternoon, for example, may reduce the risks of early death more than a morning or evening workout. Delaying your morning coffee until two hours after waking improves cognition and energy, according to Andrew Huberman, a controversial neurobiologist and podcaster who has developed a cult following for his health and fitness protocols". Asfor the best time to have a shower? I'm glad you asked. I have done extensive research on the matter - and it's complicated. Continue reading...
The UN vote for a Gaza ceasefire shows Biden's administration has finally lost patience with Israel's leader. That could be crucialHow do you gaslight an entire nation about a war and then try to do the same to a superpower that is your ally? And how do you turn a just war into global isolation and widespread condemnation? Just ask Benjamin Netanyahu. He has the patent.Netanyahu has been deliberately and intently seeking a confrontation with the US ever since late October. The UN security council resolution 2728, demanding an immediate ceasefire", is just the latest pretext for this premeditated showdown. This may sound counterintuitive and imprudent to you, given that the two countries are close allies, given Israel's heavy reliance on US military aid and its diplomatic umbrella, and particularly given President Biden's sweeping and unwavering support for Israel since the 7 October catastrophe.Alon Pinkas served as Israel's consul general in New York from 2000 to 2004. He is now a columnist for HaaretzDo 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...
Biden now leads Trump in Wisconsin, Arizona, Georgia, Nevada and North Carolina, and is tied in Pennsylvania, new poll showsJoe Biden had some good news on Tuesday as polling showed him gaining on Donald Trump in six battleground states, seven months before the presidential election. In response, one leading Democratic strategist said the Biden bump is real".According to Bloomberg News and Morning Consult, Biden now leads Trump by a point in Wisconsin, having trailed by four last month, and is tied in Pennsylvania, where Trump had a six-point lead last month. The two candidates were also tied in Michigan. Continue reading...
Utah women's basketball coach, Lynne Roberts, said her team experienced a series of 'racial hate crimes' and were forced to change hotels due to safety concerns during the NCAA Tournament.Utah, South Dakota State and UC Irvine were all staying at hotels in Idaho because of the lack of hotel space in Spokane. Far-right extremists have become a presence in the region. Roberts said the NCAA and the host school, Gonzaga, worked to move the team after the incident. She added: 'For our players and staff to not feel safe in an NCAA Tournament environment, it's messed up ... this should be a positive for everybody involved.'
The same vessel that hit the Baltimore Key Bridge on Tuesday, destroying it and sending people and vehicles tumbling into the water, was involved in a collision while leaving the port of Antwerp, Belgium, in 2016. According to Vessel Finder the weather was fine at the time, and the incident was reportedly blamed on the ship's master and pilot on board
This attack could not come at a worse time for Palestinians. Hunger is widespread in Gaza, and famine is projected in the north by MayIsrael's vendetta against United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (Unrwa) illustrates the callousness with which Benjamin Netanyahu's far-right government has fought the war in Gaza. It also reflects an effort to use Hamas's 7 October attack as an opportunity for demographic reengineering.Formally called the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East, Unrwa was established by the UN general assembly in December 1949 to address the 700,000 Palestinian refugees whom Israeli troops had forced from their homes during the war that led to the creation of the state of Israel in May 1948. Palestinians refer to this expulsion as the nakba, or catastrophe. Today, Unrwa provides education, healthcare and social services to the surviving refugees and their descendants. They number nearly 7 million, scattered among Jordan, Lebanon, and Syria as well as the occupied West Bank, East Jerusalem, and Gaza.Kenneth Roth, former executive director of Human Rights Watch (1993-2022), is a visiting professor at Princeton's School of Public and International Affairs Continue reading...
Aerial footage of the Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore shows the bridge before and after a cargo ship collided with it early on Tuesday, sending vehicles into the water
Spokesperson for president notes Trump's Jesus comparisons and lack of campaign events and says US deserves better'Joe Biden's presidential re-election campaign labeled Donald Trump weak and desperate" and feeble, confused and tired", after the former president and presumptive Republican nominee appeared in court and then spoke to the press in New York.Donald Trump is weak and desperate - both as a man and a candidate for president," said James Singer, a spokesperson for the Biden campaign, on Monday. Continue reading...
Beloved zoo escapee had rat poison in its bloodstream and had contracted a serious disease from its diet of pigeonFlaco, the Eurasian eagle owl who gained fame after living free in New York City after escaping from captivity, was weakened by rat poison and a pigeon virus to the extent he would've died even if he had not fatally collided with a building earlier this year, a postmortem has found.Flaco was 13 years old when he was found dead in the courtyard of a building on New York's Upper West Side on 23 February, with trauma injuries that suggested he had flown directly into the structure. Continue reading...
Law will ban social media accounts for children under 14 once it takes effect but must still withstand expected legal challengesThe Florida governor, Ron DeSantis, has signed a law that has given his state one of the US's most restrictive social media bans for minors, though it must still withstand expected legal challenges.Once it takes effect, the bill signed on Monday bans social media accounts for children under 14 and require parental permission for 14- and 15-year-olds. It was slightly watered down from a proposal DeSantis vetoed earlier in March, a week before the annual legislative session ended. Continue reading...
A container ship rammed into a major bridge in Baltimore early on Tuesday, causing it to snap in various places and fall into the Patapsco River. Several vehicles fell into the water, and rescuers were initially searching for at least seven people
Those of us who already cared not a jot what we wore, ate or watched all day welcome the Goop star to our ranks. But a takeaway and reality TV once a week won't cut itNew wisdom has just dropped from Gwyneth Paltrow. Now that she has turned 50, she doesn't give a fuck", and allows herself one slovenly day a week, watching reality TV and ordering takeaways. This is quite a common refrain, not just in the wellness world, but from the realm of the perfect. They reach a certain age - usually 50, sometimes 45 - and assertively cease to care. Sometimes it hinges on diet and exercise, other times it's I turned 50 and stopped being a pleaser, saying yes to everything, hiding my true feelings."Passing this age threshold is framed as a liberating Rubicon, and those of us who were already reckless and past caring should be welcoming Gwyneth, and everyone like her, into our ranks. But it does rankle a tiny bit: the world of expectations that surrounds women younger than 50 - what they should wear, what they should eat, what they should watch, how polite they should be, whether their neck is long enough for hoop earrings, whether they spend enough time meditating - is partly created by people like Paltrow. OK, maybe that's unfair and she's just like all of us, swimming her best in waters not of her own making, but certainly she has always been a reliable enforcer of the feminine ideal, even if it didn't always come off (I'm thinking of the vagina-scented" candle, of course, because when am I not?). Continue reading...
Despite his campaign promises, the president is mimicking Trump's approach to the island and fueling its economic miseryOn 6 April 1960, the US diplomat Lester D Mallory wrote a memo advocating an embargo denying money and supplies to Cuba, to decrease monetary and real wages, to bring about hunger, desperation and overthrow of government". Sixty-four years later and the policy that Cubans call el bloqueo (the blockade) is still in force. It hasn't achieved its stated aim of overturning the Cuban Revolution - but it has fueled years of desperation and justified anger.Barack Obama came to recognize this by his second term. During a historic 2016 visit to Havana, he said that he had come to bury the last remnant of the cold war in the Americas" and to extend the hand of friendship to the Cuban people". By then his administration had already made tangible steps in that direction.Bhaskar Sunkara is the president of the Nation, founding editor of Jacobin, and author of The Socialist Manifesto: The Case for Radical Politics in an Era of Extreme Inequalities Continue reading...
We want to hear from people in Baltimore who have been affected by the Francis Scott Key Bridge collapseIn the US, rescue efforts remain underway after a major bridge in Baltimore, Maryland collapsed early on Tuesday. At least seven vehicles are believed to have fallen in the water.A container ship collided with the Francis Scott Bridge causing the bridge to snap. A video posted on X appeared to show the vessel striking one of the bridge's central supports, causing much of the 2.6km bridge to give way. Continue reading...
A portion of the Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore has collapsed after a large boat collided with it early on Tuesday morning, sending multiple vehicles into the water. At about 1.30am, a vessel crashed into the bridge, catching fire before sinking and causing multiple vehicles to fall into the water below, according to a video posted on X. All lanes closed both directions for incident on I-695 Key Bridge. Traffic is being detoured," the Maryland Transportation Authority posted on X. The Baltimore mayor, Brandon M Scott, and and the county executive, Johnny Olszewski Jr, said emergency personnel were at the scene and rescue efforts were under way
The Department of Homeland Security has raided properties in Los Angeles, Miami and New York that local news outlets have reported are tied to rapper and mogul Sean 'Diddy' Combs. Los Angeles-based television stations carried aerial video footage showing federal agents entering an LA mansion, while a video of agents outside Combs's Miami home also broadcast.
John Keller says workers facing onslaught for dutifully and reliably doing their jobs' as man given 30 months for threatsElection officials across the US are facing an onslaught of unfounded hostility for dutifully and reliably doing their jobs", the head of a federal taskforce set up to protect the election community from violent threats said on Monday.John Keller, who leads the day-to-day efforts of the election threats taskforce, based in Washington, told reporters that the wave of violent threats - unleashed by Donald Trump's lie that the 2020 presidential election had been stolen - amounted to an attack on the very foundation of our democracy - our elections". Continue reading...
New NBC hire, who resigned from committee less than three weeks ago, insisted there were still problems' in how Biden beat TrumpA little more than two weeks after resigning as the chair of the Republican National Committee, Ronna McDaniel admitted Joe Biden won the 2020 presidential election over her party's candidate fair and square".But the newly hired NBC News contributor maintained it was acceptable to also say there were problems" in the manner that the US president defeated Donald Trump - even after the former president's supporters translated such sentiments into the January 6 Capitol attack in 2021 that has been linked to nine deaths, including law enforcement suicides. Continue reading...
McDaniel facilitated Trump's corrupt fake elector plot', says ex-congresswoman as NBC hosts and union group protestThe Republican National Committee chair turned NBC politics analyst Ronna McDaniel enabled criminality and depravity" in her support for Donald Trump's attempt to overturn the 2020 election, the former congresswoman Liz Cheney said as controversy swirled over McDaniel's media role.Ronna facilitated Trump's corrupt fake elector plot and his effort to pressure Michigan officials not to certify the legitimate election outcome," Cheney, a Republican who was vice-chair of the House January 6 committee, wrote on social media. Continue reading...
Timothy Carter, 28, in custody over killing of Jason Jenkins, 18, in attack criminal complaint says appears to be racially motivatedAn Illinois man has been arrested after the fatal stabbing of a teenage employee at a Walmart last Sunday, in what appears to be a racially motivated hate crime.Timothy Carter, 28, has been charged with first-degree murder after allegedly killing Jason Jenkins, 18, an employee of the Walmart in the town of Rockford. Continue reading...
It was the state's first such fatal attack in 20 years and the animal that killed Taylen Robert Claude Brooks, 21, has been euthanizedA mountain lion killed a 21-year-old man and badly wounded his younger brother before officials euthanized the animal on Saturday afternoon in a remote wooded area of northern California, according to authorities.It was the state's first fatal mountain lion attack on a person in about 20 years, statistics from California wildlife officials show.The Associated Press contributed reporting Continue reading...
Authorities say girl showed up at sheriff's station, lunged' for gun and was pronounced dead at scene from self-inflicted injuryA girl died on Sunday from a self-inflicted gunshot wound after she entered a Los Angeles county sheriff's station and grabbed a deputy's gun, the department said.The incident came after the girl's foster parent called authorities to their home around 7.25pm on Sunday, saying the girl was suffering from a mental health crisis. By the time deputies arrived, the girl was gone. About 15 minutes later, she showed up at the Industry sheriff's station about 1 mile (1.6km) away from the home, knocked on the lobby door, entered and lunged" to grab a deputy's firearm out of the holster, the department said. Continue reading...
Baseless claims that Ukraine played a role in the assault on a concert hall should not distract from a failure to heed credible warningsThe worst terrorist attack on their soil for two decades has left Russians in shock and looking for explanations. Over the weekend, survivors graphically conveyed the horror that unfolded on Friday evening inside the Crocus City Hall, in Moscow's commuter belt. Hunted down by at least four gunmen, minutes before a rock concert was due to begin, 137 people have so far lost their lives. That death toll is almost certain to rise, given the number of seriously wounded.After an atrocity that recalls all too clearly the Islamic State attacks on the Bataclan nightclub in Paris and Manchester Arena, the world has mourned with Russia. But after terror has come obfuscation and disinformation. Though all available evidence suggests this murderous rampage was the work of a branch of IS based principally in Afghanistan, Tajikistan and Pakistan, the Kremlin is cynically choosing to exploit the carnage for propaganda purposes against Ukraine. Continue reading...
Curiosity about Catherine's condition was inevitable. Now we know she is being treated for cancer, her family must be left aloneA cancer diagnosis is shocking for anyone, but particularly for younger people, in whom cancer is much rarer. In the UK, adults aged 25 to 49 account for 9% of new cases. For people with dependent children, this dreadful news can be even harder to manage; sometimes the person most upset by bad news is not the patient. It was clear from Friday's video recording of the Princess of Wales that the impact of her illness on her three children - aged 10, eight and five - was foremost among the reasons why the news was kept from the public until then. Her explanation resonated with millions of people, whatever their opinions about the royal family.The sharing of more details about the future queen's health was inevitable. Her three-month absence, after a 13-day hospital stay and abdominal surgery in January, led to an information vacuum. The coincidence of the king's cancer diagnosis - and the fact that the pair were in the same private London hospital at the same time - served to magnify interest in the royal family's health. Continue reading...
A Japanese diaspora collective called Nikkei 4 Palestine aims to mobilize their community in solidarity as Israel-Gaza war ragesWith their cameras on and microphones muted, about a dozen members of the Japanese diaspora collective Nikkei 4 Palestine gather on Zoom every Thursday afternoon. One member plays Palestinian resistance music in the background as they call or email elected officials to demand a ceasefire in Israel's war on Gaza.The coalition has contacted politicians across the US and Canada more than 400 times through calls, emails, letters and faxes since November, according to Yoshino Goto, a member of the group. Comprising more than 70 people, Nikkei (which means a person of Japanese descent) 4 Palestine formed as a response to the war, in which more than 31,000 Palestinians have been killed since 7 October. Continue reading...
Entrepreneur, whose grandfather Leon Leonwood Bean founded outdoor retailer in 1912, was key donor to Republican partyLinda L Bean - a granddaughter of the famed outdoor retailer LL Bean who became an entrepreneur, philanthropist and Republican activist - has died. She was 82.Bean died on Saturday, her business manager, Veronika Carlson, confirmed in a written statement on Sunday. No cause was given. Continue reading...
Riding a bike is not a political act, yet cyclists have become the bete noire for the anti-woke, anti-green, anti-liberal crowdGetting my bike nicked was like losing a pet. I didn't want a new one; I wanted to go back in time and not lose my old one. But, in the end, an inanimate object is not infinitely grievable and I need wheels. This is how I fetched up with a Liv bike, my precious first born putting the seat up for me. I said how proud and heart-filled I was, watching him do a little job that I didn't want to do myself for the first time, and he said: I've been showing you how to use a remote control since I was six years old," and I thought: OK, fair, but, more to the point, look at my lovely bike.Freshly re-enamoured of the world of two wheels, I have plunged straight back into the cycling discourse, the perfect microcosm of the wokeness split in all its forms. Take the ex-footballer Joey Barton, who is being sued by Jeremy Vine for calling the broadcaster a bike nonce". Meanwhile, the socials are full of people furiously agreeing that aggressive cyclists pose more danger to them than articulated lorries. The fervent attacks on low-traffic neighbourhoods (LTNs) and low-emission zones such as Ulez in London are really just a full-throttle loathing of people on bikes, aggrandised by acronyms and libertarian bat signals. Continue reading...
Texas man says he is unsatisfied with Donald Trump and Joe Biden and says new name isn't a person, it's a rally cry'A Texas man has legally changed his name to Literally Anybody Else and announced he is running for US president in the 2024 election.Formerly known as Dustin Ebey, the 35-year-old is a US army veteran and seventh-grade math teacher in the suburbs of Dallas, and now has a Texas driver's license to prove his name change. Continue reading...
It is against US law to provide weapons to forces who block United States humanitarian assistance. And that is exactly what is happening right nowI know a man, a decent man, who said that preventing genocide is an achievable goal, a goal that requires a level of government organization and engagement that matches in its intensity the brutality and efficiency required to carry out mass killing. Too often, these efforts have come too late, after the best and least costly opportunities to prevent them have been missed."The man that said that was then Vice-President and now President Joseph Biden. And he was right.Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez in a US representative from New York's 14th districtThis op-ed is adapted from a speech that Alexandia Ocasio-Cortez delivered on Friday in Congress Continue reading...
Scam artist allegedly posed as Federal Trade Commission investigator and convinced victim to transfer $789,000 in goldA California scam artist who stole nearly $800,000 in gold bars from a victim was recently captured by police, including a detective who posed as the victim as part of an elaborate, undercover sting operation.Wenhui Sun, 34, was arrested in Leisure World, Maryland, a senior living community. Officers with the Montgomery county police department's financial crimes unit orchestrated Sun's arrest. Continue reading...
President responds to Republican rival's bizarre Truth Social boast about winning trophies on his own golf courseJoe Biden clapped back at Donald Trump after Trump posted a typically bizarre boast about his self-proclaimed golfing prowess.Congratulations, Donald," the president told his Republican rival. Quite the accomplishment." Continue reading...
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