Month: January 2020

PORTSMOUTH, N.H. — When the head of New Hampshire’s leading foundation for women arrived at a local Women’s March to find she would be sharing the stage with Sen. Bernie Sanders, she backed out. At the same event, a prominent former state senator turned her back when he spoke. After a week-long flare-up with Sen.…

En marge de la journée mondiale contre les violences faites aux femmes le 25 novembre, l’artiste italien Alexsandro Palombo a détourné des clichés de stars hollywoodiennes telles que Madonna, Angelina Jolie ou même Kim Kardashian pour les imaginer violentées elles aussi. Il y a quelques mois Alexsandro Palombo avait publié sur son site et son…

Ever since she began explaining how her Medicare for all plan would be funded, and how she would pass it, Elizabeth Warren has been sinking. Ahead of last week’s debate, her camp leaked a story that her friend Bernie Sanders met with her in 2018 to discuss plans for 2020, and that at this meeting,…

Luanda (AFP) – Angola’s former president Jose Eduardo dos Santos has denied links to alleged public company embezzlement during his rule, in his first response to corruption investigators last month freezing his daughter’s assets. Isabel dos Santos, the ex-president’s billionaire first-born, has been the target of an anti-corruption campaign led by her father’s successor President…

NEW YORK (AP) — Federal authorities are turning to a new tactic in the escalating conflict over New York City’s so-called sanctuary policies, issuing four “immigration subpoenas” to the city for information about inmates wanted for deportation. “This is not a request — it’s a demand,” Henry Lucero, a senior U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement…

The Taal volcano roared to life last weekend for the first time in more than 40 years, sending a massive plume of volcanic ash towering over the Philippines. This was the first time that Taal has erupted since 1977, an event that marked the end of an active period for the volcano that had begun…

Click:cnc cutting machine wood Reuters/Andrew Innerarity President Donald Trump has put the final touches on his legal defense team before oral arguments in his Senate impeachment trial kick off on Tuesday. Trump’s defense will include the attorneys Alan Dershowitz, Ken Starr, and Robert Ray. Starr and Ray both investigated President Bill Clinton during his impeachment…

WASHINGTON – President Donald Trump’s impeachment legal defense team includes attorney Kenneth Starr, the independent counsel who became a household name in the 1990s when he headed up the investigation that led to former President Bill Clinton’s impeachment.  Starr was president, then chancellor of Baylor University but resigned amid a scandal involving multiple sexual assault allegations against football…

By Brad Brooks (Reuters) – President Donald Trump took aim at Virginia Democrats and their push to stiffen the state’s gun laws, saying that the U.S. Constitution was under attack just as thousands of armed militia members began arriving in Richmond for a Monday gun rally. Trump doubled down with his support of gun enthusiasts…

The Recording Academy is without a president just 10 days ahead of the 62nd Grammy Awards. Recording Academy President and CEO Deborah Dugan has been placed on “administrative leave” after six months on the job following a misconduct allegation, the Academy confirmed to USA TODAY in a statement provided by Lourdes Lopez. “In light of concerns raised to the…