Time and again, the world has found that propping up failing states is compelling in the short-term and potentially disastrous in the long-term. By Max Fisher Barely a week after withdrawing nearly all U.S. forces from Afghanistan, President Biden faces, in Haiti, a strikingly similar dilemma, now much closer to home. In Afghanistan, Mr. Biden […]
Time and again, the world has found that propping up failing states is compelling in the short-term and potentially disastrous in the long-term. By Max Fisher Barely a week after withdrawing nearly all U.S. forces from Afghanistan, President Biden faces, in Haiti, a strikingly similar dilemma, now much closer to home. In Afghanistan, Mr. Biden […]
After weeks of protests that included an overnight camp, Battery Park City residents were told on Monday that plans to build a monument there for essential workers had been paused amid demands for more community input. A monument is still in the works, but the state will establish an advisory committee with community residents and […]
OTTAWA — Several people died when a construction crane collapsed on Monday as it was being dismantled at the site of a 25-story downtown condominium project in Kelowna, British Columbia, the police said. Videos and photos from the scene showed that the upright portion of the crane, which had been used to build the residential […]
OTTAWA — Several people died when a construction crane collapsed on Monday as it was being dismantled at the site of a 25-story downtown condominium project in Kelowna, British Columbia, the police said. Videos and photos from the scene showed that the upright portion of the crane, which had been used to build the residential […]
A week after state prosecutors in Manhattan indicted Donald J. Trump’s family business and its chief financial officer, Allen H. Weisselberg, the company began removing Mr. Weisselberg from every leadership position he held atop dozens of its subsidiaries, according to a person with knowledge of the matter. The move could be a potential precursor to […]
As a sprawling multinational investigation into the assassination of Haiti’s president broadens, with suspects stretching from Colombia to Florida, the Haitian authorities have turned their focus to a little-known doctor who they said coveted the presidency. The Haitian authorities say that President Jovenel Moïse was assassinated early on Wednesday morning by a team of perhaps […]
WASHINGTON (REUTERS) – US President Joe Biden does not yet have enough support from fellow Democrats to secure US$400 billion (S$540.76 billion) in spending for at-home care for the elderly and disabled that the economy desperately needs, Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo told Reuters on Monday (July 12). Ms Raimondo, who is paying for round-the-clock care […]
WASHINGTON (REUTERS) – The Biden administration on Monday (July 12) asked two federal appeals courts to dismiss the Justice Department’s legal challenges to court rulings that barred a Trump-era effort to ban new downloads of Chinese-owned video-sharing app TikTok. Last month, US President Joe Biden withdrew a series of executive orders issued by former president […]
SURFSIDE, Fla. — Modern Florida was built on condos like Champlain Towers South. “A new lifestyle is evolving in Florida and with it, a new habitat, the condominium,” Florida Trend magazine declared in 1970, when it first used the word. Condos promised an entree to the Florida dream of sunshine and fresh starts, affordable because […]