Terry Hall: lead singer of the Specials dies aged 63
Read More Terry Hall, the lead singer of the Specials and a former member of Fun Boy Three and the Colourfield, has died aged 63, his bandmates in the Specials have confirmed. “It is with great sadness that we announce the passing, following a brief illness, of Terry, our beautiful friend, brother and one of […]
Harvey Weinstein Found Guilty of Rape in Los Angeles Trial
Harvey Weinstein was found guilty Monday of rape at a Los Angeles trial in another #MeToo moment of reckoning, five years after he became a magnet for the movement.After deliberating for nine days spanning more than two weeks, the jury of eight men and four women reached…
Fox News Poll: 37% say 2022 was good to them, highest since 2019
Post Content Looking back on a year when coronavirus began to subside but inflation took hold, just more than half of voters say 2022 was a bad one for them and their family. Still, almost 4 in 10 believe it was good – a boost from 2020 when less than a quarter felt positive. The […]
Putin lands in Belarus to pressure ally to join the offensive in Ukraine war
Russian President Vladimir Putin visited Belarus on Monday along with his defense and foreign ministers, fanning fears in Kyiv that he intends to pressure his ex-Soviet ally to join a fresh ground offensive that would open a new front against Ukraine. Putin, whose troops have been driven back in Ukraine’s north, northeast and south since […]
Australian, Taiwan authorities foil alleged plot to smuggle meth into Australia using 3D printers
Authorities foiled a plot by two men alleged to be senior members of an international crime syndicate to smuggle methamphetamine into western Australia hidden inside 3D printers. Two men, ages 36 and 33, were arrested in July and October in Taiwan after one of them came to the attention of the Australian Federal Police during […]
Supreme Court temporarily pauses lifting Title 42 border restrictions
Post Content The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday temporarily blocked an order that would lift Title 42, the pandemic-era health policy that has been used to deter migrants more than 2.5 million times. The order Monday by Chief Justice John Roberts comes as cities along the U.S.-Mexico border have been scrambling to prepare for an […]
Jan. 6 Committee criminal referrals of Trump are political ‘theater,’ DOJ likely to ‘ignore’ say legal experts
Post Content Legal experts say that the House January 6 Committee’s criminal referrals of former President Donald Trump to the Justice Department for his involvement in the 2021 Capitol protests are “theater” and will likely be ignored by the DOJ, and they could possibly have a counterproductive effect should the DOJ decide to bring charges. […]
White House unable to describe what Kamala Harris is doing on immigration
Post Content The White House said Monday that it was unable to describe what Vice President Kamala Harris is doing to address the “root cause” of mass migration to the southern border, one of the major issues in her portfolio. “I don’t have anything to lay out specifically on what that work looks like,” press […]
Jan. 6 Committee releases 154-page executive summary detailing Trump’s ‘unlawful’ conduct, criminal referrals
Post Content The special House committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021, assault on the U.S. Capitol released a 154-page executive summary on Monday detailing its impetus for referring criminal charges against former President Donald Trump to the Justice Department. “What Donald Trump proceeded to do after the 2020 election is something no president had done […]
White House insists end of Title 42 doesn’t mean border is open, says doubters do the work of ‘the smugglers’
Post Content Cities along the U.S.-Mexico border are bracing for the end of Title 42, a pandemic-era immigration restriction set to expire this week, but the White House insists this doesn’t mean the border will be open. The expiration of Title 42 loomed large over Monday’s White House press conference, with press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre […]