- Breaking ‘News’- Trump still dominating the polls with working class pedophiles-80%-20% Daily Kos
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Donald Trump pardons UK billionaire and former Tottenham owner Joe Lewis
Lewis was fined $5m and given three years probation by New York judge over ‘brazen’ insider trading scheme
Joe Lewis, the British billionaire and former owner of Tottenham Hotspur FC, has been pardoned by Donald Trump over a 2024 conviction for his part in a “brazen” insider trading scheme.
Lewis, 88, was fined $5m (£3.8m) and given three years probation by a New York judge last year but was spared jail time after pleading guilty to involvement in a plan that prosecutors said was designed to enrich his friends, lovers and employees.
Continue reading...Remembering Armero: Colombia’s town buried in tragedy – NPR
- Remembering Armero: Colombia's town buried in tragedy NPR
- Colombia’s ‘lost children’ remain open wound 40 years after deadly volcanic eruption Reuters
- Searching for Survivors 40 Years After One of Latin America’s Deadliest Disasters NPR
- Parents search for children missing since a volcanic eruption in Colombia 40 years ago AP News
- Lessons from the Armero disaster and beyond Nature
Swiss deploy charm offensive in bid to slash crippling Trump tariffs
Swiss business leaders appear to have made progress with a private initiative in which reports say they brought gifts to the Oval Office.
Democrat Eric Swalwell faces federal criminal inquiry for alleged mortgage fraud
Latest target of Trump’s retribution campaign says ‘only thing I am surprised about is that it took him this long’
The Democratic congressman Eric Swalwell is the latest target of Trump’s retribution campaign against his critics, the congressman confirmed on Thursday.
NBC News reports that Swalwell is facing a federal criminal investigation for alleged mortgage fraud, just as three other Democratic officials have faced in recent months. The outlet says the director of the Federal Housing Finance Agency sent a letter to the attorney general claiming Swalwell may have committed mortgage and tax fraud.
Continue reading...Germany agrees new military service plan to boost troop numbers
The new military service plan will mandate all 18-year-old men to fill out a questionnaire on their suitability to serve.
Germany to introduce voluntary military service – DW
- Germany to introduce voluntary military service DW
- Germany agrees new military service plan to boost troop numbers BBC
- Germany’s Answer to Its Conscription Dilemma: a Database of Young Men Fit for War The Wall Street Journal
- Germany decides against conscription to replenish post-cold war military The Guardian
- German ruling parties reach compromise on military service Reuters
EU renews demand that Ukraine crack down on corruption in wake of major energy scandal – AP News
- EU renews demand that Ukraine crack down on corruption in wake of major energy scandal AP News
- Top Ukrainian ministers submit their resignations as the country is rocked by a corruption scandal AP News
- Energy scandal spells trouble for Zelensky as Ukrainians face another winter of power cuts CNN
- Could Ukraine’s corruption crisis ‘lead to military defeat’ against Russia? Al Jazeera
- EU allies demand answers from Ukraine over escalating corruption scandal politico.eu
Canada says Russia and China are ramping up spy efforts in Arctic region
Canada’s spy agency says it has observed intelligence threats targeting country’s government and private sector
Canada’s domestic spy agency says Russia and China have a “significant intelligence interest” in Canada’s Arctic, and are targeting both the country’s government and its private sector.
In his annual speech on threats facing Canada, Dan Rogers, director of the Canadian Security Intelligence Service (CSIS), flagged mounting concerns over hostile nations growing increasingly emboldened in the Arctic.
Continue reading...Watch this Russian humanoid robot fall flat on its face seconds into its debut to the ‘Rocky’ theme – Business Insider
A decade after the Bataclan attacks, France is still grappling with how to remember – NPR
- A decade after the Bataclan attacks, France is still grappling with how to remember NPR
- 10 years after Bataclan massacre, Paris is still scarred by Islamic State attacks abcnews.go.com
- ‘The pain remains’: France remembers victims of 2015 Paris attacks The Guardian
- Paris attacks commemorations: French nation has ‘held firm’, Macron says France 24
- How France Remembers the November 2015 Terrorist Attacks in Paris The New York Times
‘The pain remains’: France remembers victims of 2015 Paris attacks
Bells ring out across French capital marking 10th anniversary of country’s deadliest peacetime attack
France has paid tribute to the 130 people killed 10 years ago by Islamic State gunmen and suicide bombers who targeted a stadium, bars, restaurants and the Bataclan concert hall in the country’s deadliest peacetime attack.
“The pain remains,” Emmanuel Macron wrote on social media on Thursday as he visited each of the sites that were attacked. Bells rang out across the city as a remembrance ceremony began at a memorial garden in central Paris attended by relatives and survivors.
Continue reading...Tehran taps run dry as water crisis deepens across Iran – Ynetnews
- Tehran taps run dry as water crisis deepens across Iran Ynetnews
- Iran's drought: A disaster in slow motion DW
- ‘We may have to evacuate Tehran’: The catastrophe threatening Iran Yahoo
- As Aquifers Dry Up, Tehran Rations Water and Calls for Rain Prayers The New York Times
- Iran's Water Crisis Nears Point Of No Return Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty
Serbia secretly agreed deal with Jared Kushner firm to develop protected Belgrade site
Government established joint venture with Trump’s son-in-law in February 2024 to build hotel, apartments and museum complex
The Serbian government has established a joint venture with a property development company owned by Donald Trump’s son-in-law, Jared Kushner, to develop a hotel complex in Belgrade, giving Serbia until next May to demolish the existing buildings, according to leaked documents.
An independent Serbian news magazine, Radar, published what appears to be a 2024 investment agreement giving Kushner’s firm Atlantic Incubation Partners LLC a 77.5% stake in the joint venture, and the Serbian government a 22.5% stake.
Continue reading...Dogs 10,000 years ago roamed with bands of humans and came in all shapes and sizes – The Conversation
- Dogs 10,000 years ago roamed with bands of humans and came in all shapes and sizes The Conversation
- The Dogs of 8,000 B.C. Were Amazingly Diverse The New York Times
- Doggie diversity in size and shape began at least 11,000 years ago Reuters
- Dog Skull Analysis Rewrites Evolution of Humanity's Best Friend Scientific American
- Our dogs' diversity can be traced back to the Stone Age BBC
Tenured professor sues University of Kentucky for banning him from law school over comments on Israel
Exclusive: Ramsi Woodcock, who calls for an ‘end’ to Israel and military intervention against it, says the university violated his first amendment rights
A tenured law professor sued the University of Kentucky on Thursday after he was banned from teaching and from the law school for comments he made about Israel, including characterizations of the state as a “colonization project” and calls for the world to wage war against it.
In a lawsuit filed in federal court, Ramsi Woodcock, an antitrust law scholar, argued that the public university violated his first amendment and due process rights when it abruptly placed him under investigation in July, just days after he was promoted to full professor, over allegations that he violated university policy – including anti-discrimination rules that incorporate a widely disputed definition of antisemitism.
Continue reading...Colombia to maintain US intelligence-sharing to fight drug trafficking
Announcement comes after President Petro said Colombia would stop working with US over strikes on alleged drug boats.
Unionised Starbucks workers begin ‘open-ended’ US strike
The strike comes as the company's workers push for better wages and benefits.
Medical experts say Africa faces worst cholera outbreak in 25 years
Africa CDC recorded about 300,000 confirmed and suspected cases of cholera so far in 2025, a rise over last year.
Should the US fund health insurance or leave it to the market?
Health insurance has once again become a battleground in US politics.