Category: United States

  • President Biden’s plan to turn Ukraine into an Oil Pump for the EU.

    President Biden’s plan to turn Ukraine into an Oil Pump for the EU.

    Much is said about why the U.S. is involved in War in Ukraine. Since armed conflict that started in 2014 in the aftermath of the Ukrainian Revolution of 2014, which led to the ousting of the pro-Russian president of Ukraine, Viktor Yanukovych. Russian-backed separatists in the Donbass region of Ukraine, which includes the Donetsk and…

  • Mexico President Rejects ‘Irresponsible’ Calls for US Military Action Against Cartels

    Mexico President Rejects ‘Irresponsible’ Calls for US Military Action Against Cartels

    Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador on Thursday rebuked calls from some U.S. lawmakers advocating military action in Mexico against drug cartels, describing the proposals as threats to Mexican sovereignty. “We are not going to permit any foreign government to intervene in our territory, much less that a government’s armed forces intervene,” Lopez Obrador said…

  • Biden urged not to approve oil terminals that could create ‘carbon bombs’.

    Biden urged not to approve oil terminals that could create ‘carbon bombs’.

    Joe Biden’s administration has been urged not to sink its own climate goals by approving an unprecedented ramp-up of oil export infrastructure off the Texas coast that could result in planet-heating emissions equivalent to three years of the US’s entire emissions output.

  • Republicans look to use convention as election test bed

    Republicans are aiming to use this week’s national convention as a test bed for their efforts to reelect President Donald Trump, just weeks before the start of early voting. The Republican National Committee plans to hold more than 7,500 events across the country — the majority of them in person — as part of a…

  • Williams announce sale of F1 team to US investment company

    It’s the dawn of a new era for Williams after the Formula 1 team announced they have been acquired by American investment firm Dorilton Capital… The iconic British constructor, founded by Sir Frank Williams and Sir Patrick Head, said in May that they were embarking on a “new strategic direction”, and had begun talks with…

  • Trump hits Biden over guns, schools and police at campaign stop in Pennsylvania

    President Donald Trump delivered a wide-ranging political indictment of Joe Biden on Thursday in a speech near his Democratic challenger’s Pennsylvania birthplace, just hours before Biden accepts his party’s nomination for president. The president delivered his remarks at a building products company in Old Forge, Pa., about a 10 miles from Scranton, where Biden was born and grew up. Trump, who originally…

  • Feds to seek death sentence for Boston bomber

    The Justice Department will seek to reinstate a death penalty for Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, the man who was convicted of carrying out the 2013 Boston Marathon bombing, Attorney General William Barr said Thursday. In an interview Barr said the Justice Department would appeal the court’s ruling last month that tossed Tsarnaev’s death sentence and ordered a trial…

  • Biden touts ‘Recovery’ in speech at DNC

    Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden will seek to unite the American public around his candidacy Thursday, using his convention address to portray the country as resilient and hopeful after three days in which party luminaries lambasted President Trump. Mr. Biden’s remarks—in which he will formally accept the Democratic presidential nomination, three decades after he first…

  • Liz Cheney condemns QAnon conspiracy

    House Republican Conference Chairwoman Liz Cheney (R-Wyo.) denounced the far-right QAnon conspiracy theory as a “dangerous lunacy,” becoming the highest-ranking GOP lawmaker to condemn it. Cheney’s comment came one day after President Trump told reporters that he doesn’t “know much about the movement other than I understand they like me very much, which I appreciate.”…

  • Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Nominates Bernie Sanders at DNC

    Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Nominates Bernie Sanders at DNC

    Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez at the Democratic National Convention on Tuesday night nominated Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders for the party’s presidential candidacy. The freshman congresswoman used her 90-second speaking slot on the second day of the DNC to praise the “mass people’s movement working to establish 21st-century social, economic and human rights,” and formally nominate Joe…