Report: Air Force Will Punish Airman for Faking Racist Texts
A Black Airman is facing punishment from the U.S. Air Force for faking racist texts from a supervisor to claim job discrimination, reports Military.com.
US, South Korea conduct river-crossing drills as tensions with North escalate
The U.S. and South Korean militaries conducted a joint river-crossing drill Wednesday, the latest exercise in a large-scale operation designed to counter North Korea’s own escalating military drills. Main battle tanks and other armored vehicles crossed the temporary bridge over the Namhan River south of the capital of Seoul. U.S. and South Korean engineering teams […]
Thailand Detects First Case of Drug-Resistant Omicron BQ.1 Subvariant
Read More Thailand has detected its first case of the new Omicron BQ.1 subvariant, which experts believe could be highly contagious and resistant to the antibody medications used to protect against COVID-19. The Center for Medical Genomics at Ramathibodi hospital issued a warning on Oct. 18 about BQ.1 and BQ.1.1, both of which are the […]
UN weaknesses threaten global rule of law
Read More Russia’s war with Ukraine — and global responses to it — is not only remaking the post-Cold War world but has shown that many existing global institutions, particularly the United Nations, established in the aftermath of World War II to keep the peace between countries, have lost their credibility, relevance and authority. The […]
Welcome to the doom loop of Tory Britain: an austerity that kills, a democracy routed | Aditya Chakrabortty
Read More As you may have heard, this country has a new ruler. Jeremy Hunt now sets the government’s course; Liz Truss is merely his barely-human shield. But very few of this week’s tributes to the “real prime minister” mention that precisely 18 people voted for him to take that job. That is the grand […]
Liz Truss calls off media visit after promising to keep pensions triple lock
Read More Liz Truss has called off a planned visit and media clip amid continued chaos, shortly after she pledged to maintain the so-called triple lock guarantee on pension increases. Downing Street and the Treasury had for days refused to commit to the triple lock, under which the state pension would rise by whichever is […]
Suella Braverman departs as UK home secretary
Read More Suella Braverman is understood to have departed as UK home secretary after Liz Truss cleared her diary and called off a planned visit amid desperate attempts to save her premiership, the Guardian has been told. There is speculation that Grant Shapps, the former transport secretary who strongly backed Rishi Sunak in the Conservative […]
FBI Raided Home of ABC News Producer Who Hasn’t Been Seen Since
The FBI earlier this year raided the home of an award-winning investigative journalist with ABC News who reportedly hasn’t been seen since his apartment was searched.
Polls show Republicans flip key metric in 2022 midterm elections, Democrats ‘blew their lead’
Post Content In September, some commentators were confident Democrats might be able to avoid a “red wave,” but with just three weeks to midterm election day, momentum from the overturn of Roe v. Wade and President Biden’s string of summer legislative wins could be waning. Polling for the 2022 generic congressional vote — a closely […]
Banks, GOP request to meet with Biden to address fentanyl crisis, give him box of victim obituaries
Post Content FIRST ON FOX: Republican Study Committee (RSC) chairman Jim Banks, of Indiana, led several of his RSC colleagues in a request to meet with President Biden to address the fentanyl crisis plaguing America and give him a box containing victims’ obituaries. Banks and seven of his fellow RSC members sent the letter following […]