Harris support among Black voters surges as ex-president Trump’s numbers rise amng Whites
Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris is drawing more support from Black voters than President Joe Biden did when he was in the race this year, while Republican Donald Trump’s support among white voters has risen somewhat in recent months, according to an analysis of Reuters/Ipsos polling. The analysis, which examined...
US businesses brace for digital financial markets as Trump talks says he plans to hoard billions in bitcoin
When former US president Donald Trump announced a plan to establish a national “bitcoin stockpile” if he is re-elected, the crowd at the Bitcoin 2024 conference in Nashville, Tennessee, erupted into a fit of celebration. The frontrunner in the upcoming election was speaking their language. “For too long, the government...
Picking running mate: Inside 16 days between Kamala Harris’ launch and choice of Tim Walz
As factions squabbled over Kelly and Shapiro, Walz may have benefitted from having a fan in former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi. A San Francisco Democrat like Harris, Pelosi has maintained that she had no preference and does not tell presidential nominees who to pick as running mates. But one former Pelosi aide described the former speaker and Walz as “super tight,” and Pelosi has recently demonstrated her status as a leading party elder via her private conversations with Biden about bowing out.
Central bank boss shrugs off recent credit downgrades by financial market experts, forecasts Kenya shilling surge
Rating agencies Moody’s and Fitch downgraded Kenya’s sovereign ratings following the withdrawal of the tax measures, saying the move could complicate the East African country’s fiscal consolidation efforts.
Details emerge of how US top brass were caught conspiring to duck questions on Covid origins at Wuhan Lab
EcoHealth Alliance, a nonprofit organisation focused on emerging infectious diseases, has been at the centre of debates surrounding the origins of Covid-19 due to its work with bat coronaviruses and its partnership with the Wuhan lab.
Jittery Congo Presidents Tshisekedi questions predecessor Joseph Kabila’s links with US-sanctioned rebels
President Tshisekedi’s accusation follows the US announcement of sanctions against the AFC last month. Washington accused the alliance of seeking to overthrow Congo’s government and fueling conflict in the east of the country. It said the main member of the alliance, the renowned rebel group M23, is already under US sanctions.
After Africa’s future was stolen via decades of state corruption the youth in Kenya, Uganda and Nigeria are now reclaiming it by force
There is widespread perception among the youths of Uganda that the rulers are curtailing their development for their own benefit. Some argue that they are being exported to slave markets in the Middle East so that they do not contribute to a future population of Uganda through reproduction. They say their labour is enriching those in power and those active in the export of youth to the Middle East slave market.
Revenue starved Elon Musk’s X goes after advertisers over alleged ‘massive advertiser boycott’
In November 2023, about a year after Musk bought the company, a number of advertisers began fleeing X over concerns about their ads showing up next to pro-Nazi content and hate speech on the site in general, with Musk inflaming tensions with his own posts endorsing an antisemitic conspiracy theory.
Day Bangladesh army declined to enforce president’s curfew orders to suppress youth protests and sealed her fate
Ten people familiar with the events of the past week, including four serving army officers and two other informed sources in Bangladesh, were interviewed to piece together the final 48 hours of Hasina’s reign. Many of them spoke on condition of anonymity due to the sensitivity of the matter.
