In admitting he ignored his lawyers, Trump may have undermined his defence of 2020 election cases
Trump has continued to make false claims that the election was stolen from him through widespread voting fraud. Asked why he dismissed the views of lawyers in the White House and his campaign that he had lost the election, Trump responded: “Because I didn’t respect them.”
Hunter Biden becomes first child of a sitting US president to be indicted he’s hit with criminal gun charge
The younger Biden for years has been the focus of unrelenting attacks by Trump and his Republican allies who have accused him of wrongdoing relating to Ukraine and China, among other matters. Hunter Biden has worked as a lobbyist, lawyer, investment banker and artist, and has publicly detailed his struggles with substance abuse.
Biden impeachment looms as government shutdown beckons unless funding bill passes
The impeachment push comes as Trump, who was twice impeached by the House but acquitted by the Senate, faces more serious charges in court. Trump has been indicted four times this year, including for trying to overturn the 2020 election that Biden won.
Still-born-democracy: Is meaningful opposition in Uganda now reduced to Bobi Wine and NUP?
We don’t know how FDC will emerge out of its internal conflicts. Most likely it may survive but not as strong as it was before. It may even collapse and give way to the formation of a new party. Time will tell.
Former London police officers admit sharing racist texts about Duchess of Sussex, royals
The former officers, aged in their 60s, pleaded guilty to sending offensive messages at a hearing at London’s Westminster Magistrates’ Court.
Are Allied Democratic Forces rebels an Islamic outfit or a bunch of rapists masquerading as mujahidin?
the public wrongly perceived FRONASA, RPF and NRA rebels to be Muslims, which was not true. People like Haji Abdu Nadduli were few in the rebel ranks. The overwhelming majority were Rwandese and Ugandan Christians. It was a good strategy. It earned the rebels enormous sympathy and moral and financial support domestically and internationally, although they were also strongly supported by the Anglo-American axis of global power
Are Rwanda’s Tutsi imposters or same as Bahima in Uganda, if not why do they pose as such?
A knowledgeable society is an asset. It is not enough to have academics and intellectuals. They must be ready to share their knowledge freely and costlessly. It would be bad for them if they lived in a fearful society that is also ignorant. When they do research they would either get no credible data or confront a docile, silent population, remote from them.
Inside Russian military carnage: Ukrainian intercepts show Russian soldiers’ anger, 43,000 killed
Neil Melvin, director of International Security Studies at the Royal United Services Institute (RUSI), a defence and security think tank headquartered in London, said the calls appeared to confirm some Russian forces were thrown into defensive operations with little preparation and were sustaining high casualties, sowing tensions between soldiers and commanders.
US Senate races ahead of House on spending bills to avoid government shutdown from October
Republican Representative Tom Cole, who chairs a powerful committee that is the gatekeeper for all legislation, told a group of fellow Republicans in late July: “My guess is, knowing some of our defence guys really well, they aren’t going to fight that hard to hold down defence spending. They’re like ‘please put me in conference so I can surrender immediately.'”
Is Uganda’s Only-Bull-in-the-Kraal finally metamorphosing from ‘No-Changist’ to ‘Changist’?
Very early in his reign, the President Museveni made it clear that he had captured political power through the barrel of the gun to stay in power as long as he possibly could when he said, “a mere piece of paper cannot remove me from power”, adding, ” I am a quarter pin of a bicycle. I came in by knocking and can only leave by knocking”.
