The Republican Superstars Eager to Wish You Happy Birthday
Matt Gaetz, George Santos, Roger Stone — the celebrity-video app Cameo has become a key stop for embattled or notorious political figures. Source link
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Month: January 2025
At the Movies, the ‘Older Woman’ Is Growing Up
The older woman has been very busy lately. By “older woman,” I am referring to the cinematic figure who is defined by her sexual and romantic relationships with younger men. Depending on your own age, you may know her as the “cougar,” the “Mrs. Robinson,” or the joke about “your mom.” Now she is the […]
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Biden Says He’s Considering Pre-emptive Pardons For Trump’s Potential Targets
President Biden said in a new interview published on Wednesday that he was considering pre-emptive pardons for people President-elect Donald J. Trump considered his political enemies, but he added that he had not yet decided what to do. “A little bit of it depends on who he puts in what positions,” Mr. Biden told USA […]
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Top Iranian General Admits ‘Big’ Defeat in Syria
Iran’s top ranking general in Syria has contradicted the official line taken by Iran’s leaders on the sudden downfall of their ally Bashar al-Assad, saying in a remarkably candid speech last week that Iran had suffered a major defeat but would still try to operate in the country. An audio recording of the speech, given […]
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U.S. Funding Dispute With World Anti-Doping Agency Boils Over
The fallout from the disclosure that the World Anti-Doping Agency did not discipline a slew of Chinese swimmers who tested positive for a banned drug erupted on Wednesday after the Biden administration said it withheld major funding for the agency and the agency removed the American government’s representative from its board. The United States had […]
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Opinion | Don’t Underestimate the Enduring Power of ISIS
For 20 years, I’ve been studying Western recruits to domestic and transnational terrorist organizations. I’ve interviewed jihadis, white-nationalist terrorists and eco-terrorists to understand their motivations and to prevent future violence. In my view, the appeal of some of the most crucial elements that ISIS offered to vulnerable or confused Western recruits — doctrinal certainty, identity, […]
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Barbara Lee, a Progressive Pillar of the House, Is Running for Oakland Mayor
Former Representative Barbara Lee, a Bay Area progressive known for her lonely opposition to the war in Afghanistan after the Sept. 11 attacks and for her rise within the House’s Democratic leadership, on Wednesday joined the race for mayor of Oakland, Calif. She made the announcement in a video on social media just days after […]
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Fani Willis Asks Georgia Supreme Court to Review Decision Kicking Her Off Trump Case
Fani T. Willis asked the Georgia Supreme Court on Wednesday to put her back on the Trump election interference case. Ms. Willis, the district attorney of Fulton County, Ga., petitioned the state’s high court to review a recent decision disqualifying her from prosecuting President-elect Donald J. Trump and his allies over efforts to keep him […]
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TikTok, Facing a US Ban, Is Also Waging Legal Battles Around the World
Russia fined TikTok for not removing prohibited content. The results of a presidential election in Romania were thrown out over concerns the app had been used to spread foreign influence. Albania banned TikTok for a year following the stabbing death of a teenager by another one after the two quarreled online. “Either TikTok protects the […]
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Blinken and French Diplomat Criticize Trump’s Talk of Taking Greenland
Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken and his French counterpart, Jean-Noël Barrot, spoke on Wednesday in Paris of the challenges already posed to U.S. alliances by the imminent return of Donald J. Trump to the White House, and said they believed that an American takeover of Greenland was an impossible idea. But they also asserted […]
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