Giorno: 2 Luglio 2024

Carl Bernstein: Biden’s Debate Struggles Not ‘One-Off’

President Joe Biden’s difficulties in last week’s debate were not just a “one-off” incident but the continuance of a pattern that has been going on for the last year and a half as he has “good days, he has bad days,” former Washington Post journalist Carl Bernstein says.[#item_full_content]

Biden to Novo Nordisk, Lilly; Cut Weight-Loss Drug Prices

U.S. President Joe Biden and Senator Bernie Sanders called on Novo Nordisk and Eli Lilly to reduce the prices of their weight loss and diabetes drugs, in an opinion piece by them published in USA Today Tuesday.[#item_full_content]

Iran’s rare runoff presidential election sees historically low voter turnout

Over 20 years ago, Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei stood before a crowd at Friday prayers to denounce the United States for its disenchanted electorate. “It is disgraceful for a nation to have a 35% or 40% voter turnout, as happens in some of the nations that you see having presidential elections,” Khamenei said […]

At least 60 dead after stampede at religious gathering in northern India

At least 60people are dead and scores are injured after a stampede at a religious gathering of thousands of people in northern India, officials said Tuesday. More than 150 people were admitted to hospitals after the crush in a village in Hathras district of Uttar Pradesh state, medical official Umesh Tripathi told The Associated Press. […]

Gang violence in Haiti has displaced more than 300,000 children, UN says

Gang violence in Haiti has displaced more than 300,000 children since March, the U.N. children’s agency said Tuesday as the Caribbean country struggles to curb killings and kidnappings. Children are more than half of the nearly 580,000 people who have become homeless in the last four months. The spike in violence began in late February […]

How would a President Harris handle immigration, border crisis?

With growing calls from some Democrats for President Biden to step aside in favor of a different presidential candidate in the wake of his presidential debate performance last week, it has raised the possibility of a President Kamala Harris – raising questions about how she would handle the ongoing border crisis. Many Democrats and liberal […]