Category: Politics

Today’s edition of quick hits. * The latest on the Japanese earthquake: “A 7.1-magnitude earthquake hit Japan’s southern Kumamoto prefecture on Tuesday, knocking out power to thousands of homes, ​rupturing roads and leaving some trapped and others presumed dead inside a partially collapsed shopping mall. Speaking to reporters from her office in Tokyo, Japanese Prime…

Andy Burnham has promised “problem-solving, not point-scoring” before a speech on social care in which he will set out his strategy for resolving one of the most intractable issues in British politics.The prime minister has invited Kemi Badenoch, the Conservative leader, and Ed Davey, the Liberal Democrat leader, to discuss how to enact urgent reform…

Supreme Court Justice Neil Gorsuch rejected the idea that the United States was founded as a Christian nation, contrasting sharply to a view held by some prominent conservatives. Asked during an interview with PBS on Sunday about some conservatives’ beliefs that the U.S is rooted “in the same heritage and the same religion,” Gorsuch stood…

In a TikTok video shared Sunday evening, actor and influencer Dylan Mulvaney addressed the fact that the Friday before, President Donald Trump mentioned her name a total of four times at his awkward and meandering White House Correspondents’ Association dinner speech. In his address, the president mocked the appearance of CNN reporter Kaitlan Collins, who…

A year before the Trump administration awarded Greenwater Services a $1.7 million no-bid contract to clean the algae-filled Reflecting Pool, it gave the company, owned by a Trump donor, a $2.4 million no-bid contract to test its “nanobubble” technology in California’s polluted Tijuana River. Critics have questioned the results of the pilot and whether the…

Democratic candidates have focused on affordability. But some party leaders say they also need to talk about democracy, especially if President Trump continues making unfounded claims about election fraud. Source link

A three-judge panel at the 9the Circuit Court of Appeals ruled last week that an Oregon school district didn’t violate an educational specialist Roderick Theis’s right to free speech when it disciplined him for not removing three children’s books that were visible in his two offices, “He is He,” “She is She” and “Johnny the…