Giorno: 22 Maggio 2024

Exodus from Speaker Johnson’s office: 4 top aides unveil departure plans

Four top aides in House Speaker Mike Johnson’s office announced plans to depart within 24 hours of each other, roughly seven months since he took the helm of the House of Representatives. Johnson policy advisers Brittan Specht, Jason Yaworske and Preston Hill are leaving the Louisiana Republican’s office to join Michael Best Strategies, a lobbying […]

FTX’s Bankman-Fried Being Transferred to New Prison

Federal officials began the process to transfer Sam Bankman-Fried to a new prison, overriding his wish to stay in New York while helping to prepare his appeal, The Wall Street Journal reported Wednesday.[#item_full_content]

NBA Reaches $2.6B Blockbuster Deal With NBC

The National Basketball Association has reached a media rights deal with NBC, cutting its ties with TNT for the first time in 40 years, Mediaite reports.[#item_full_content]

Iranian crowd chants ‘death to America’ at funeral for dead president

Mourners chanted “Death to America” at the funeral service for Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi on Wednesday in the nation’s capital of Tehran. President Raisi, Iran’s foreign minister and others were killed Sunday in a helicopter crash. Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei presided over the service at Tehran University, where caskets of the dead draped […]

Bosnian Serb leader threatens to secede from Bosnia ahead of UN vote on genocide

The leader of Bosnia’s Serb territory reiterated his threat to secede from the Balkan country Wednesday, a day ahead of a planned U.N. vote on establishing an annual day to commemorate the 1995 genocide of more than 8,000 Bosnian Muslims by Bosnian Serbs. The proposed U.N. resolution sponsored by Germany and Rwanda has sparked protests […]