GOP candidates tough it out in third debate, but Trump remains favourite for party ticket
Former United Nations Ambassador Nikki Haley, South Carolina Senator Tim Scott and former New Jersey Governor Chris Christie all sounded traditional GOP notes, backing military aid to Ukraine, calling for vastly increased investment in the military and linking all the global conflicts.
GOP hopefuls to focus on Israel and foreign policy in third debate that also tests who can beat Trump
Foreign policy and the Israel-Hamas war are expected to be prominent in Wednesday’s third Republican primary debate, as a narrowing field of candidates seeks to cut into Donald Trump’s lead without being able to challenge the former president in person. Trump will again skip the debate in Miami, instead holding...
Abortion rights activists, Democrats notch important wins Ohio and Kentucky elections
Ohio was the latest abortion battleground, nearly a year and a half after the Supreme Court decision. Last year, abortion rights advocacy groups scored a series of victories by placing abortion-related referendums on the ballot, including in conservative states.
Trump turns witness stand into political platform as he lashes out at judge, NY attorney general
Tensions between Engoron and Trump – already on display in recent weeks, when the judge fined him a total of $15,000 for incendiary outside-of-court comments – were evident early on Monday when the ex-president was repeatedly scolded about the length and content of his answers.
How top US officials coerced virologists to label Covid link to Wuhan lab a ‘conspiracy theory’
A week later, a February 26, 2020, commentary in Emerging Microbes & Infections repeated claims that lab-leak theory was a conspiracy theory. The paper was written by virologists – including Linda Saif, of Ohio State University – working behind the scenes with Baric and Shi Zhengli, who conducted research at the Wuhan Institute of Virology.
US top officials with ties to Wuhan Institute still fighting to discredit Covid link to Chinese lab
A report by the US House of Representatives Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic released in July found that Fauci and other key scientists and government officials used the paper as a means to suppress the Covid-19 lab-leak theory.
Beauty and the beast: Thousands of Black women in US diagnosed with uterine cancer linked to hair relaxers
The American Cancer Society estimates there will be about 66,000 new cases of uterine cancer diagnosed this year in the United States, less than a quarter of the number of 297,790 new cases of invasive breast cancer, and more than three times the 19,710 cases of ovarian cancer.
Rock & Roll: Sheryl Crow, Missy Elliott and Chaka Khan rock crowd at Hall of Fame 50th anniversary
The ceremony’s strong representation of Black and women artists this year came not long after the hall removed Rolling Stone co-founder Jann Wenner from its board of directors. Wenner, who also co-founded the hall, had said that Black and female musicians “didn’t articulate at the level” of the white musicians featured in his new book of interviews. He later apologised.
15 years ago: The world is heavy with burden of pain and suffering but having Barack Obama as president mattered
In Obama, so many Black Americans didn’t just see a politician. We saw, in him, fragments of our collective selves – the hopes of Harlem Renaissance poets, the determination of Civil Rights marchers, the ambition of Black students trapped in deliberately underfunded schools. And we saw the deferred dreams of our elders.
US Secretary of State says President Biden is keen on improved US-Africa trade programme
Over $10 billion worth of African exports entered the United States duty free last year under the programme. However, the US International Trade Commission earlier this year highlighted major shortcomings.
