Latest polls strike panic among Republicans as late shifts lean the election to VP Harris
Harris’s gains came as the political conversation turned toward the former president’s liabilities. This included his rally at Madison Square Garden and his former chief of staff’s warning that he would rule like a dictator.
Middle East crisis: Israel’s strikes on Iran spark interest in air-launched ballistic missiles
The US tested a hypersonic ALBM, the Lockheed Martin AGM-183, but it received no funding for the 2025 fiscal year. Because it has a large arsenal of cruise missiles and other types of long-range strike weapons, Washington has otherwise shown little interest in ALBMs.
Prince William visits South Africa to promote climate change and environmental awareness
William, the Prince of Wales, last visited Africa in 2018, but he has a strong connection to the continent. William travelled to Africa as a boy after the death of his mother, Princess Diana, in a Paris car crash in 1997. He and his wife, Kate, got engaged at a wildlife conservancy in Kenya in 2010. And he said he came up with the idea for the Earthshot awards while in Namibia in 2018.
Music titan Quincy Jones who worked with likes of Frank Sinatra, Michael Jackson and introduced Winfrey and Whoopi Goldberg to filmgoers, dies
Jones rose from running with gangs on the South Side of Chicago to the very heights of show business, becoming one of the first Black executives to thrive in Hollywood and amassing an extraordinary musical catalog that includes some of the richest moments of American rhythm and song.
Why American intelligence community tag Trump as Russian autocrat Vladimir Putin’s errands boy in geopolitics
Today, the US intelligence community believes that Russia wants to help Trump win again in 2024. That means that it is vital that Americans finally understand the truth about the Trump-Russia case, and about the dangerous relationship between Trump and Russian autocrat Vladimir Putin.
Museveni’s neoliberalism fantasy simply means transactionalism that explains how Uganda is a structured society of slaves and masters
In Uganda, investment in education, health and agriculture – the social areas – has plummeted over the decades, thanks to transactional leadership and transactional politics. There is nothing transformational about these multi-pronged phenomena.
Souls to the Polls: Harris, Obamas and voting rights leaders work to turn out Black voters on Election Day
Democratic efforts have ranged from vigorous door-knocking campaigns in Atlanta, Detroit and Philadelphia this weekend to swing state rallies. Michelle Obama rallied voters in Norristown, Pennsylvania on Saturday alongside Grammy award-winning artist Alicia Keys while Barack Obama stumped in Milwaukee on Sunday. The former first lady also conducted her own scrupulously nonpartisan rally on Tuesday where speakers evoked the South’s Civil Rights history.
Republicans: Trump thinks Harris is an unworthy opponent and can’t understand why he isn’t dominating
Donald Trump was indicted for his efforts to overturn the 2020 election in both Washington and Georgia. Some of his allies, notably former chief strategist Steve Bannon, have encouraged Trump to prematurely declare victory on Tuesday night after polls close even if the race is too early to call. That’s what Trump did four years ago, kicking off months of denial and lies that culminated in the January 6, 2021, insurrection at the US Capitol.
Harris’ closing campaign pitch targets undecided voters, Christians and Arab Americans
More than 78 million Americans have already done so ahead of Tuesday’s Election Day, according to the University of Florida’s Election Lab, approaching half the total 160 million votes cast in 2020, in which US voter turnout was the highest in more than a century.
Kenya Evans Chebet peeped seconds to finish line by Dutch Nageeye in New York City Marathon
Tamirat Tola, the men’s defending champion and Paris Olympic gold medallist, finished fourth, right behind Albert Korir.
