McCarthy struggles to win over hardliners in speaker race despite new concessions
Post Content GOP opponents of Kevin McCarthy’s speakership bid indicated Thursday morning they still aren’t ready to support him, even after McCarthy hinted at new concessions late Wednesday aimed at winning them over. After six votes on Tuesday and Wednesday that fell short of giving him 218 votes for speaker, McCarthy floated the possibility of […]
Biden considers sending Bradley Fighting Vehicles as Ukraine pleads for tanks
President Biden on Wednesday said the U.S. is considering sending Kyiv Bradley Fighting Vehicles as Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy continues to plead for western tanks to help his forces fighting on the eastern front. When asked by reporters in Kentucky if he would consider sending the tracked vehicles to Ukraine Biden responded with a simple […]
Pennsylvania Sen. Casey to Undergo Prostate Cancer Surgery
U.S. Sen. Bob Casey, D-Pa., said Thursday that he will undergo surgery for prostate cancer but is expected to make a full recovery.
AOC trolls Kat Cammack with rum distillery visit after she accused Dems of drinking in House chamber
Post Content Democratic socialist Rep.-elect Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., trolled Republican Rep.-elect Kat Cammack of Florida by visiting a D.C. rum distillery Wednesday night after Kammack accused the Democrats in the House chamber of drinking amid the multiple ballots for House Speaker. Ocasio-Cortez, a former bartender, hit up the Cotton and Reed rum distillery in the […]
Agriculture department blamed for incomplete abattoir that cost R35m
Read More Nebavest 46 was awarded more than R6 million for the “wrongful” termination of its construction agreement in 2020. (All Photos: Delwyn Verasamy, M&G) The government could have its assets attached next week after it blew R35 million on an incomplete Eastern Cape abattoir, which has stood as a dilapidated and rusty eyesore for almost seven […]
An allegory of gluttony and greed: Corruption, SA’s deadly cancer
Read More When Kgalema Motlanthe replaced Thabo Mbeki as president of South Africa in September 2008, while Jacob Zuma waited to assume office, a cartoon by Zapiro in this paper depicted Motlanthe driving the official presidential vehicle, with Zuma in the passenger seat next to him. Motlanthe is saying that he has never driven one […]
Rishi Sunak accused of misleading public over emergency NHS funding
Read More Rishi Sunak faces accusations he has misled the public after it emerged hospitals and councils have not received ?300m in emergency funding to free up NHS beds that was first promised four months ago. The government announced last September it was providing an extra ?500m to get thousands of medically fit patients out […]
UK ministers announce anti-strike legislation
Read More Ministers have announced anti-strike legislation to enforce “minimum service levels” in six key public services including the NHS and schools as Rishi Sunak scrambles to get a grip on ongoing industrial disputes. The government plans to introduce a law in the coming weeks that would allow bosses in health, education, fire, ambulance, rail […]
Prince Harry says woman with ‘powers’ relayed message from Diana
Read More In his highly anticipated autobiography, Spare, Prince Harry describes how his sadness over the death of his mother, Princess Diana, led him to seek help from a woman who “claimed to have ‘powers’” and to be able to relay a message. “You’re living the life she couldn’t,” Harry says the woman told him. […]
Bills: Safety Damar Hamlin Showing ‘Remarkable Improvement’
Buffalo Bills safety Damar Hamlin has shown what physicians treating him are calling “remarkable improvement over the past 24 hours,” the team announced Thursday, three days after the player went into cardiac arrest and had to be resuscitated on the field.”While still…
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