Historic: Trump first presidential candidate ruled out of White House race for ‘insurrection’
The Colorado court concluded that the US Constitution bars Trump, the frontrunner for the Republican nomination in 2024, from appearing on the ballot because of his role instigating violence at the Capitol as lawmakers met to certify the results of the 2020 election. The court’s majority acknowledged the decision was “uncharted territory.”
Ordinary Americans granted more say in new US refugee funding programme lined up by Biden
The Biden administration aims to bring in 10,000 refugees through sponsorships as part of an overall goal of 125,000 refugee admissions in fiscal year 2024.
While Kenyans and Tanzanians never allow refugees to fiddle in politics, Ugandans are enduring oppressive alien authority
I was in Tanzania for 10 years and in Kenya for 10 years. In Tanzania I was originally a student of zoology, botany with development studies at the University of Dar-es-Salaam in the very early 1970s. I just missed interacting with President Tibuhaburwa Museveni. He had left the university in...
In Biden-Trump rematch, new opinion poll shows Democrats will lose to Republicans in 2024
Kennedy, whose uncle John F. Kennedy served as president and whose father, Robert, was a senator and attorney general, faces a challenge to amass enough signatures to get on the ballot on all 50 states.
Antisemitism: Backlash to House testimony shines spotlight on new crop of Ivy League presidents
Some observers pointed out the dynamics when three women – one Black and one Jewish – were placed before a group of GOP lawmakers eager for a political fight.
Age of Unreason: How African universities churn out parrots, endorse knowledge ‘incest’ and stymie academic production
Hierarchical teaching and learning become a thing of the past and all become teachers and learners when they interact, not in classrooms or lecture theaters, but in teams. That way universities start to produce graduates who are more of independent thinkers who can see alternative views as sources of new ideas rather than opposition.
Revealed: How India plans, carries out sophisticated scheme to kill exiled Sikh separatists
The document instructs officials at its consulates to cooperate with Indian intelligence agencies to confront the groups Sikhs for Justice, Babbar Khalsa International, Sikh Youth of America, Sikh Coordination Committee East Coast, World Sikh Parliament, and Shiromani Akali Dal Amritsar America. It suggests that Nijjar and several other “suspects” are affiliated with one of these groups, Babbar Khalsa International. Babbar Khalsa International is proscribed as a terrorist organisation in the US and Canada, but the other organisations named in the document are considered legal in both countries
Trump’s vow to be dictator for just a day provokes fear in US, puts media on red alert over free speech
Trump’s extensive policy plans also rely on a dramatic expansion of executive power. He wants to strip tens of thousands of career federal workers of their civil service protections, has vowed new ideological tests for those entering the country and has talked about increasing the military’s role on domestic soil, including sending the National Guard to the border and to cities like Chicago to tackle crime.
Biden tells donors he’d not be on the ballot ‘if Trump wasn’t running’ and ‘we can’t let him win’
November was the campaign’s strongest grassroots fundraising month since Biden formally announced last April that he was seeking a second term, according to a campaign official who insisted on anonymity to discuss campaign finances before details are made public. The numbers will be released in January.
Prosecutors oppose Hunter Biden’s application to subpoena Trump documents in gun case
The long-running case had appeared to be headed for a plea deal this summer, but the agreement on tax and gun charges broke down after Noreika, a Trump nominee, raised questions about it during a plea hearing.
