WASHINGTON (NYTIMES) – A former senior FBI agent at the centre of the investigations into Mrs Hillary Clinton’s email server and the Trump campaign’s ties to Russia defends the handling of the inquiries and declares President Donald Trump a national security threat in a new memoir, while admitting that the bureau made mistakes that upended […]
WASHINGTON (REUTERS) – US President Donald Trump said the United States must look “very seriously” into the suspected poisoning of Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny, but that his administration had not yet seen any proof. “It’s tragic. It’s terrible, it shouldn’t happen. We haven’t had any proof yet, but I will take a look,” Mr […]
PORTO JOFRE (NYTIMES) – A record amount of the world’s largest tropical wetland has been lost to the fires sweeping Brazil this year, scientists said, devastating a delicate ecosystem that is one of the most biologically diverse habitats on the planet. The enormous fires – often set by ranchers and farmers to clear land, but […]
WASHINGTON (AFP) – A US university has launched an investigation after a professor admitted she had lied for years about being black and is in fact white – a stunning admission amid a tense national reckoning on race issues including cultural appropriation. In a post on the platform Medium, Jessica Krug – a history professor […]
Daniel Prude’s suffocation raises questions about use of the hoods and reliance on police in mental health crises. Not five minutes after police in the United States slipped a “spit hood” over Daniel Prude’s head, the 41-year-old Black man went limp. A week later, he was taken off life support. Prude’s suffocation, in Rochester, New […]
Joe Biden has branded Donald Trump ‘disgusting’ over claims the president branded US soldiers killed in battle ‘losers’ and ‘suckers.’ Speaking Friday, Biden lost his temper and shouted: ‘If what is written in The Atlantic is true it is disgusting and it affirms what most of us believe to be true, that Donald Trump is […]
WASHINGTON — The lawyer for accused neo-Nazi Patrik Mathews will be back in court Jan. 12 to try to convince a Maryland judge to drop weapons charges against the former Canadian Forces reservist. In a series of motions filed in Maryland District Court this week, lawyer Joseph Balter argues that two of the four charges […]
WASHINGTON (AFP) – Former foes Kosovo and Serbia have agreed on a historic pact to normalize economic relations, US President Donald Trump announced on Friday (Sept 4) at the White House. And in a fresh diplomatic success for the US leader, both Kosovo and Serbia also agreed to improve their relations with Israel – Kosovo […]
A man suspected of killing a far right-wing protester in Portland has been shot dead in an operation to detain him, according to officials. Michael Reinoehl was located by FBI agents and the US Marshals service on Thursday after an arrest warrant was issued for him. During the encounter, Reinoehl is said to have brandished […]
The pandemic has limited access to public pools in New York this summer — and violence has soared. A temporary pool on Manhattan’s Lower East Side, 1972.Credit…Barton Silverman/The New York Times Supported by By Ginia Bellafante In August of 1969, New York mayor John V. Lindsay flew by helicopter to the Bronx to commemorate the […]