Vice President JD Vance is the loyal convert-in-chief and he is on top of the world after roping in for tech billionaires for Donald Trump
After serving in the Marines and graduating from Yale Law School, Vance bounced around from a stint on Capitol Hill in Texas senator John Cornyn’s office to a federal clerkship in Kentucky to a brief stint in corporate law before cutting his teeth in the VC field at Mithril Capital, a firm founded by billionaire Peter Thiel.
Kenya steps up push to grow tourism arrivals to five million to stave off competition from neighbouring countries
County Executive Committee Member for Trade, Culture and Tourism, Mohamed Osman, said he believes that the five million target can be achieved by 2026. He urged the government to fully implement the open sky policy to attract more tourists to the country.
No love for the dollar as markets fret about Fed independence after Trump threatens chair with sack
Down 10 per cent so far this year and set for its worst year since 2003, the dollar was expected to weaken further as renewed concern about Fed independence comes amid increased expectations for rate cuts and a looming July 9 deadline for trade agreements.
Adverse childhood experiences: Study finds Kenyan adolescents highly susceptible to mental distress
The findings also pointed to socioeconomic and family-related vulnerabilities where adolescents with only one surviving parent had 18 per cent higher adversity scores and those performing poorly in school were 15 per cent more likely to have faced adversity.
Kenya drafts law to shield senior citizens against economic and social vulnerabilities, keep them active in economy
Article 6 also obligates the state to ensure prompt payment of pension and other forms of social security for older persons to enable them to lead comfortable and dignified lives in their sunset years.
US health secretary’s ‘alternative medicine’ push inspired quest to ‘live forever’ via snake venom, urine therapy
Biohacking is a big tent, combining Silicon Valley technology, Burning Man spirituality and health libertarianism. If anything unites this crowd, it is a distrust of the medical status quo – particularly the pharmaceutical industry – and an appetite for tech-heavy alternatives.
Cruel husband and wife arrested for burning son’s hands with molten plastics for stealing, eating fish
The minor was then handed over to the Children’s Department in Ndhiwa before being taken to a safe house.
Six-million-dollar question: Are ‘wildebeest-like’ Bararo nomads still part of indigenous Ugandan communities?
We know that some years ago, during the reign of President Jakaya Kikwete in Tanzania, thousands of nomadic pastoralists were chased from Tanzania and they ended up in Uganda. When you tell the nomadic pastoralists to go where they came from, are you also telling them to go back to Tanzania?
Pirates of the past: How buccaneers and criminals shaped history, modern military, democracy and world trade
Conquests by pirates have been in many instances an inspiration to sportsmen, musicians and filmmakers. Tales of conquests by pirates are stuff of the impossible. Piracy can easily be the byword for heroism, which mankind craves.
Anti-graft body raises serious concerns over possible looting as current financial year closes
EACC Western Region Manager Eric Ngumbi expressed of looting public coffers when he opened a three-day integrity workshop for Bungoma County senior officials, Mohamud said the commission was closely monitoring transactions in the devolved units, where the risk of financial misconduct is highest at the close of the budget cycle.
