Japan’s former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has died at the age of 67 after being fatally shot while delivering a speech Friday in the western city of Nara. Abe, the longest-serving prime minister in Japan’s history, was campaigning for a parliamentary election Friday and had a security detail. Police arrested a 41-year-old suspect at the crime scene.
We host a conversation about “Left Internationalism in the Heart of Empire,” which is the focus of an essay by Cornell University law professor Aziz Rana in Dissent magazine. Rana argues for the creation of a “transnational infrastructure of left forces across the world” and says movements of the left need “clear alternatives to the hardest questions” of foreign policy crises, such as the Russian war in Ukraine.
The crew that organized a protest outside a D.C. steakhouse where Brett Kavanaugh was dining apparently has some more demonstrations to dish up.
“This might be the first time in his entire life that even he can’t deny that the walls may indeed be closing in,” said Trump’s niece.
Audience jumped 28% from previous hearing to tune into riveting testimony about Donald Trump on insurrection day.
Hours after Roe’s demise, a truck driver rammed a group of women protesting in Iowa and highlighted an urgent national crisis: Violence is now a feature of American civic life.
We host a conversation about “Left Internationalism in the Heart of Empire,” which is the focus of an essay by Cornell University law professor Aziz Rana in Dissent magazine. Rana argues for the creation of a “transnational infrastructure of left forces across the world” and says movements of the left need “clear alternatives to the hardest questions” of foreign policy crises, such as the Russian war in Ukraine.
Cipollone answered a “variety of questions,” and revealed some new information, which the panel will soon share, said Lofgren, who called the lawyer “honest.
Flynn was raking in the bucks from autocratic nations while his future boss Donald Trump was campaigning for the presidency in 2015.
As President Joe Biden runs up against the limits of what he can do on abortion and gun control, some in his party want more fire and boldness.
Officials determined that Bannon’s row house was targeted in a fake call to police about a man with a gun, meant to trigger a shocking law enforcement response.
“This means I won the very closely contested (not actually) Wisconsin presidential race,” the former president insisted on Truth Social.
The United States is facing accusations of whitewashing the killing of Palestinian American journalist Shireen Abu Akleh after concluding the bullet that killed her likely came from Israeli military gunfire, but stopping short of reaching a “definitive conclusion” in her killing. Abu Akleh was wearing a press uniform while reporting on an Israeli army raid in the occupied West Bank when she was fatally shot in the head on May 11.
Pressure is growing on the Biden administration to help free U.S. basketball star Brittney Griner from Russian detention as Griner pleaded guilty Thursday in a Russian court to what her supporters say are trumped-up charges of “large-scale drug possession” and “drug smuggling.” Russian officials arrested the two-time U.S.
Japan’s former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has died at the age of 67 after being fatally shot while delivering a speech Friday in the western city of Nara. Abe, the longest-serving prime minister in Japan’s history, was campaigning for a parliamentary election Friday and had a security detail. Police arrested a 41-year-old suspect at the crime scene.
The agency said its commissioner had asked the IRS inspector general to look into the randomness of the audits targeting two former FBI leaders.
A badly timed ad from the campaign of Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wis.) was taken off the air “ASAP” this week.
Almost half of this summer’s Capitol Hill interns surveyed by a good government group are attending private colleges or universities.
“Just another crappy day,” state Sen. Jay Hottinger said in response to the scatological protest.
“Nothing epitomizes market failures more than the cost of insulin,” Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom said.
We host a conversation about “Left Internationalism in the Heart of Empire,” which is the focus of an essay by Cornell University law professor Aziz Rana in Dissent magazine. Rana argues for the creation of a “transnational infrastructure of left forces across the world” and says movements of the left need “clear alternatives to the hardest questions” of foreign policy crises, such as the Russian war in Ukraine.
Protests over fuel shortages are unfolding around the world — in Sri Lanka, Ghana, Peru, Ecuador and elsewhere — over high gas prices. We look at the impact of rising fuel costs on countries in the Global South with Antoine Halff, former chief oil analyst at the International Energy Agency, now at the Center on Global Energy Policy at Columbia University.
Fuel shortages in Sri Lanka have triggered a wave of protests calling for the resignation of President Gotabaya Rajapaksa. This comes as Sri Lanka’s government has forced the closure of all schools and announced plans to cut electricity by up to three hours a day, as well as stop printing currency to quell inflation. Meanwhile, Sri Lanka is also facing a dire shortage of food and medicine, and doctors say the country’s entire health system could collapse.
U.K. Prime Minister Boris Johnson announced his resignation as leader of the Conservative Party on Thursday following a wave of departures from his government, including senior Cabinet members. The party will choose a new leader and the country’s next prime minister in the coming days. In the past week, 59 members of Parliament have resigned from the government, and on Wednesday night, a group of Cabinet members went to 10 Downing Street to urge Johnson to step down.
Uvalde, Texas, school district police chief Pete Arredondo has resigned from his new position on Uvalde’s City Council after facing widespread criticism over his handling of the May 24 school massacre when an 18-year-old gunman shot dead 19 fourth graders and two teachers. State authorities say Arredondo was the incident commander who ordered officers to wait in the school’s hallway for over an hour instead of confronting the gunman.
The Georgia Republican spoke just days after seven people were killed in a mass shooting at a parade in Illinois.
Former Education Secretary Bill Bennett said exorcists can help potential mass shooters with “deeply spiritual problems.
“It just defies logic to think that there wasn’t some other factor involved,” Andrew McCabe said.
Ken Harbaugh, an old friend of Eric Greitens, calls the Missouri Senate candidate “a broken man, who will do anything, including inciting violence, to regain power.
