Taylor Swift will debut her music video for “Patient Zero” at the MTV Video Music Awards this Sunday. Swift announced “Patient Zero” earlier this week, saying on social media she has been “impatiently waiting” to announce the new single will be out on Friday. A new deluxe version of her latest album, with four new…
Washington — The Senate on Tuesday failed to advance a sweeping cryptocurrency bill known as the Clarity Act, amid opposition from Democrats and a handful of Republicans. In a 49 to 50 vote, the measure fell short of the 60 votes needed to move forward, with all Democrats and four Republicans opposing. The bill would…
First, U.S. Air Force officer shot down in Iran says it’s a “modern-day miracle” he survived. Then, brokers are offering felons a path to Trump pardons — at a steep price with no guarantees. And, McVay, Stafford on Rams culture. Source link
President Trump’s special envoy Jared Kushner directly linked the lack of progress on the rehabilitation of the war-torn Gaza Strip to upcoming Israeli elections. Israel will hold elections in late October, and polls show it is a tight race between Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his opponents. “We’re working through some political issues in…
President Trump’s White House special envoy Steve Witkoff and son-in-law Jared Kushner arrived Sunday in Ukraine, as part of a trip that began in Moscow where they discussed a proposal to end the war with Russia. The trip marks the first time the envoys travel to Ukraine since Mr. Trump returned to office with a…
Citing the importance of the First Amendment, a federal judge in California says the U.S. government is unconstitutionally silencing critics of Israel’s war in Gaza and others as part of the Trump administration’s quest to deport noncitizens who it says disrupted college campuses while expressing their views. Judge Noël Wise, in a ruling Friday, delivered…
Ratko Mladic, the Bosnian Serb general who oversaw atrocities in Bosnia in the 1990s, has died in prison at age 84, the Serbian state RTS television and the official Bosnian Serb television reported. The reports said Mladic died in a U.N. prison hospital in The Hague, Netherlands. A family member of Mladic, who spoke on…
Washington — Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent is holding a press conference Monday at the Treasury Department as the Trump administration announces the details of what it’s calling “economic D-Day” for Iran. Bessent is expected to broaden the administration’s current sanctions regime with the threat of stronger secondary sanctions on entities and countries that transact with…
International standards are often assumed to be a modern invention. They are not. Many predate the United Nations itself; the International Labour Organization (ILO), for instance, was established under the League of Nations and only later folded into the UN system. Countries have long used such standards to strengthen governance, build credibility, and integrate into…
