Liz Truss kickstarts leadership race after ending chaotic 45 days as PM

Read More Liz Truss announced on Thursday she was quitting No 10 after a calamitous 45 days in office, triggering a Tory leadership contest, with Rishi Sunak, Penny Mordaunt and Boris Johnson battling it out to become Britain’s next prime minister. At a lectern outside Downing Street during another tumultuous day, Truss admitted that she […]

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis says there will be no children’s COVID vaccine mandate

Post Content Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis drew a line in the sand Thursday, telling reporters he is against mandatory COVID-19 vaccine shots for children. On Wednesday, a panel at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) voted to add the vaccine to the recommended Vaccines for Children (VFC) Program. It would not make the […]

Pentagon will pay for service members to travel to obtain abortions

Post Content The Pentagon is picking up the tab for service members who opt to travel to obtain abortions, according to a new policy directive by Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin. Austin announced Thursday that the Department of Defense was setting up transportation allowances for service members and their dependents who opt to travel to receive […]

Kentucky House candidate disqualified from race for filing error

Post Content A candidate for a Louisville district of the Kentucky House has been disqualified from the race for a filing error. The judge ruled that Susan Tyler Witten’s signatories did not live in House District 31 when she filed to run for office on Jan. 19, the Courier Journal reported. The legislative redistricting that […]

France, Portugal, Spain scrap Iberian pipeline plans, agree on undersea corridor

The leaders of France, Portugal and Spain said Thursday they have agreed to substitute a proposed gas pipeline connection between Iberia and France with an undersea “green energy corridor” that would eventually transport hydrogen. Spanish Prime Minister Pedro S?nchez said the plan was to connect Iberia to France and the European energy market by means […]

Tribal clashes in Sudan leave 170 dead in 2 days

Tribal clashes in Sudan’s southern province of Blue Nile have killed 170 people over the past two days, two Sudanese officials said Thursday, the latest in inter-communal violence across the country’s neglected south. The officials, who spoke to The Associated Press on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to talk to the media, […]

Chinese Lab’s Purchase of US Land for Primate Breeding Facility Draws Scrutiny

Read More A Chinese firm’s purchase of land in Florida to build a lab monkey breeding facility is drawing scrutiny over the company founders’ ties to the Chinese military. JOINN Laboratories CA Inc., the California subsidiary of a biotech firm headquartered in Beijing, in July purchased more than 1,400 acres of land for building a […]