Giorno: 17 Agosto 2024

John Lewis Statue Replacing Confederate Monument in Georgia

A large statue of late civil rights leader Rep. John Lewis was installed in Decatur, Ga., Friday, taking the spot in the city’s town square where a monument to the confederacy had stood for more than 110 years before it was taken down in 2020.

Hurricane Ernesto Triggers Rip Currents, House Collapse

Even with the storm hundreds of miles offshore, Hurricane Ernesto was still being felt Saturday along much of the U.S. Eastern Seaboard, with dangerous rip currents forcing public beaches to close during one of the final busy weekends of the summer season.[#item_full_content]

Left-Wing Wash Post Slams Harris’ Price Controls

Even the left-wing media isn’t on board with Vice President Kamala Harris’ plan to enact price controls on groceries.[#item_full_content]

Fire Breaks out at London’s Somerset House, Home to Priceless Works by Van Gogh, Cezanne

Priceless paintings by Monet, Cezanne, Van Gogh and others were unharmed Saturday after firefighters worked to douse a blaze that broke out in the roof of Somerset House, a large central London arts venue, officials said.[#item_full_content]

Trump: ‘We Will Make America Affordable Again’

Opening with a warning on the “Kamala crash” and a 1929-like Great Depression, Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump called Democrats “a threat to democracy” and an existential threat to the American dream, vowing to “make America affordable again.”[#item_full_content]

Il bavaglio ai giornalisti è pronto: Nordio lo porterà in Cdm a settembre

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Hurricane Ernesto Triggers Rip Currents, House Collapse

Even with the storm hundreds of miles offshore, Hurricane Ernesto was still being felt Saturday along much of the U.S. Eastern Seaboard, with dangerous rip currents forcing public beaches to close during one of the final busy weekends of the summer season.

Chicago Mayor Johnson to Host ‘Equity or Else’ Seminar

Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson will chair an invitation-only seminar designed to inform education and union leaders on how to combat systemic racism a day before the Democratic National Convention kicks off.[#item_full_content]

Experts explain how Ukraine launched its own invasion of Russia

In the hours before Ukrainian soldiers stormed across Russia’s western border, there was no sign from Moscow that anything was amiss. At midnight at the start of Aug. 6, the Russian defense ministry posted good news: more than 2,500 members of the regiment responsible for the capture of a town in eastern Ukraine would receive […]

Thailand’s parliament elects its youngest prime minister, braces for baptism by fire

Thailand’s parliament elected political neophyte Paetongtarn Shinawatra as its youngest prime minister on Friday, only a day after she was thrust into the spotlight amid an unrelenting power struggle between the country’s warring elites. The 37-year-old daughter of divisive political heavyweight Thaksin Shinawatra sailed through a house vote and now faces a baptism of fire, […]