Year: 2023

Is social media a brain-changer? A new study has found that the frequent use of social media could be reshaping how adolescents’ brain develops. Teenagers who check their social media platforms more often were found to […]

Ron DeSantis Inaugurated for a Second Term as Florida Governor

Florida Governor Ron DeSantis was inaugurated for his second term. It comes as the conservative continues to rise as the leading potential alternative to former President Donald Trump in the 2024 Republican presidential primary. DeSantis spoke […]

House Continues To Reject McCarthy As Speaker Despite Trump Pleas

The House of Representatives has rejected Republican Kevin McCarthy’s bid for a speaker for a fourth time. There remains a small group of holdouts in the Republican party, which is now actively defying the demands […]

Washington Strongly Opposes Syria’s Assad Rehabilitation

Several days after the Syrian defense minister held a breakthrough meeting with Turkey, the United States called Tuesday on all nations to think twice about rehabilitating the country’s brutal President Bashar al-Assad. State Department spokesman […]

Missouri Executes First Openly Transgender Person with Lethal Injection

Missouri has put to death by lethal injection on Tuesday Amber McLaughlin, carrying out the first known US execution of an openly transgender person, the Missouri Department of Corrections said in a written statement. In […]

Washington Slams Ben-Gvir’s Temple Mount Visit as Unacceptable

After Israel’s national security minister Itamar Ben-Gvir sparked a global fury and condemnation with his Temple Mount visit on Tuesday morning, the Biden administration slammed his move as unacceptable. Noting that the United States finds […]

Political Ads Ban on Twitter to Get Lifted in Coming Weeks

Political advertisements will return on Twitter in the coming weeks while the issue-based paid content would be immediately allowed on the platform, the company said Tuesday announcing its plans to lift its restrictions on political […]

Conservative Hardliners Nominated Jim Jordan for House Speaker

Amid Republican floor infighting for House leadership on Tuesday, conservative hardliners nominated Rep. Jim Jordan of Ohio to be speaker of the House during the chamber’s second and third votes. A close ally of former […]

Gulf Sovereign Wealth Funds ‘Set to Shine More Than Ever’ in 2023

Sovereign wealth funds in the Gulf are expected to shine more than ever in the next year according to Global SWF’s annual report. Gulf sovereign wealth funds are expected to become more active and play […]

Capitol Police Chief Releases Statement Two Years After Jan. 6 Attack

The second anniversary of the January 6 insurrection on the Capitol is approaching this week. U.S. Capitol Police Chief Tom Manger released a statement two years later, calling it one of the darkest days in the […]

Missouri Set to Become First State to Execute an Openly Transgender Person

Missouri is scheduled to execute Amber McLaughlin, a transgender woman convicted of a 2003 murder, who unsuccessfully sought clemency from the governor in part because the jury at her trial did not vote for a […]

Republicans Explode in Meeting Before Speaker Vote

There’s a new Congress coming today, and it still remains unclear who will run things. The new Congress begins today with a Republican majority in the House. First up on its to-do list is to vote […]

Lack of Midterm Red Wave Could Squash Trump’s White House Run

The 2022 midterm elections were expected to be a great big red wave. The November votes were a story of great expectation. Republicans had high hopes that they would take control of both chambers of Congress […]

NATO Members Berated by Former US National Security Advisor Bolton

The former US national security advisor John Bolton has slammed several NATO members for their supposed reluctance to support Ukraine – singling out Germany, France, and Türkiye – in a scathing op-ed in The Telegraph […]

Saudi HRC Signs Agreement with UN Body to Combat Human Trafficking

The United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime in the GCC and the Saudi Human Rights Commission (HRC) signed on Monday the second phase of an agreement to implement activities aimed at strengthening the Kingdom’s […]

The Arrival of 300 Migrants Forces a Florida National Park to Close

A national park in the Florida Keys was closed on Monday by the National Park Service (NPS) after about 300 migrants- mainly from Cuba – arrived on the cluster of remote islands over the weekend, […]

Recession Threatens Third of World Economy, IMF’s Georgieva Warns

The year 2023 is going to be a tough year– tougher than the year we leave behind- for much of the global economy as the United States, Europe, and China, the main engines of global […]

The Highly Infectious Variant XBB.1.5 Dominates Among US Covid Cases

The latest Omicron subvariant XBB.1.5 – a highly-contagious new Covid variant – is responsible for more than 40% of confirmed COVID cases in the United States, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) […]

New data shows the absurdity of Trump’s crusade against early voting

New data from the midterm elections show how much Donald Trump’s crusade against early voting is hurting the GOP, The Hill reported. The results clearly showed that making it easier to vote early or by […]

Ukraine says it shoots down all drones in third night of strikes

Ukraine said it had shot down all Russian drones in a massive wave of attacks, CNN reports. It comes after Moscow launched an unprecedented third straight night of air strikes against civilian targets, intensifying its […]

George Santos will have to ‘consider resigning,’ GOP Reps say

Scandal-plagued Rep.-elect George Santos is headed to Washington, D.C. as his life of fantasy is coming into focus, POLITICO reported. Santos is under scrutiny for lies about his background. Records, colleagues, and friends are continuing […]

Inside the Jan. 6 committee’s massive new evidence trove

The House select committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021 insurrection on the Capitol has unloaded a vast database of its underlying evidence, POLITICO reports. All of the evidence is coming to grips with Donald Trump’s […]

2024 Veepstakes: Who will Donald Trump choose as his running mate?

Former president Donald Trump is making his third run for the White House, The Guardian reports. But this time there is a new job vacancy on the ticket. Who will be Trump’s running mate? No […]

Biden declares Arizona floods a federal disaster for Havasupai tribe

President Joe Biden has made a federal disaster declaration for the Havasupai Tribe after floods hit northern Arizona, The Guardian reported. The declaration frees up funds for flood damage as the community prepares to re-open […]

How Adrian Fontes plans to protect Arizona’s elections from ‘MAGA fascists’

The Democrat who defeated a hard-right extremist in the midterms to be Arizona’s next secretary of state doesn’t mince his words, The Guardian reports. Adrian Fontes will be inaugurated on Jan. 5 as the secretary […]

Biden to visit Kentucky for $1T infrastructure plan promotion

U.S. President Joe Biden will participate in a Kentucky event on Wednesday with Republican Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell to promote the results of the $1 trillion infrastructure plan, a White House official said on […]

McCarthy offers concessions to critics hoping to secure votes

In a House Rules package that Republicans unveiled on Sunday, House GOP Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) made some significant concessions to his critics. However, it is still unclear whether the actions would enable him to […]

Northern California jolted by 5.4-magnitude earthquake

Northern California region Rio Dell, which is still healing after a strong earthquake last month, was hit by a 5.4-magnitude earthquake that occurred 15 km (9.3 miles) southeast of it, Reuters reported. The most recent […]

January 1, 2023 Maja Popovska

Elise Stefanik ‘Embracing Neo-Nazism,’ AOC says

Elise Stefanik was singled out by Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez on Saturday for “supporting neo-Nazism,” according to Ocasio-Cortez, Newsweek reported. On Twitter, Democratic congresswoman from New York Ocasio-Cortez blasted her conservative colleague. As the youngest person […]

January 1, 2023 Maja Popovska

Meta set to make decision on Trump’s return to Facebook

The Financial Times reported on Sunday that Facebook owner Meta Inc is getting ready to say whether it would permit former US President Donald Trump to rejoin Facebook and Instagram, Reuters reported. The market leader […]