Month: December 2019

Screenshot Facebook/Jack Merritt The Conservative Party is being asked about its push to toughen up sentencing in light of the London Bridge terror attack after the father of one victims said his death should not be used to justify “draconian sentences.” The attacker, who killed two people on Friday, was released from a terror sentence…

Australia’s foreign minister on Monday said the treatment of a writer detained in China was “unacceptable”, as his lawyer reported he was being shackled and subjected to daily interrogation. Yang Hengjun, an Australian citizen, has been detained in China since January and was recently charged with spying, which could bring a lengthy prison sentence. In…

OUAGADOUGOU (Reuters) – At least 14 people were shot dead in an attack on a church in eastern Burkina Faso on Sunday morning, the government said. The identity of the gunmen was not immediately clear and further details on the attack had yet to emerge. Burkinabe armed forces were caring for the wounded and searching…

Palmerston, the Foreign Office cat, has returned to work after six months recovering from stress caused by civil servants constantly picking him up and overfeeding him. Those working in the department have been warned not to touch the cat  unless approached, and to stop feeding him treats. In July, the cat was taken to the…

Tempest Brewing, a Scottish brewery which had come under criticism for its depiction of Lord Ganesha in one of its brands, has said that it is removing the reference to the Hindu God. The development came on Friday after objections by the US-based Universal Society of Hinduism, which protested the message inscribed on the bottle…

Click here to read the full article. Republican candidate, Danielle Stella, who is vying to unseat Democratic Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) has been permanently suspended from Twitter after threatening Omar’s life on the platform over a debunked conspiracy theory. On Tuesday, Stella spread a false story about the freshman congresswoman’s involvement in passing along classified information regarding Iran. One…

MSNBC’s “Morning Joe” started the week by picking up where NBC’s “Meet the Press” left off on Sunday: Hammering GOP Sen. John Kennedy — and by extension, some of his Republican colleagues — for “repeating Putin talking points,” specifically by reiterating claims of Ukrainian interference in the 2016 election. On Sunday, Kennedy accused former Ukrainian…

Click here to read the full article. On Sunday’s Meet the Press, host Chuck Todd did his best to hold Senator John Kennedy (R-La.) accountable for muddying up the waters when it comes to the facts about Russian meddling in the 2016 U.S. elections. After Kennedy classified Fiona Hill’s impeachment testimony that Russia alone was…

A Republican senator accused of “peddling Russian propaganda on national television” insisted he was not worried that he’d been duped by Vladimir Putin. Speaking to NBC’s Chuck Todd on Sunday morning, GOP politician John Kennedy insisted that both Ukraine and Russia had meddled in the 2016 presidential election, and that Ukraine’s former president Petro Poroshenko…

Rising Democratic presidential candidate Pete Buttigieg is attracting older white Americans through his polite demeanor, catered plans such as his “Gray New Deal,” and a deluge of television ads. The 37-year-old South Bend, Indiana, mayor found unexpected success with baby boomers as he struggles to build support among black voters and young voters, enabling him to keep…