Across Latin America, we have seen organized crime and corrupt actors infiltrate and control state institutions, with devastating consequences for democracy. It is not too late to stop them in Peru.
Boeing's Starliner space capsule successfully docked to the International Space Station (ISS) on Thursday afternoon, after being delayed by new leakage and thruster issues earlier in the day, NASA announced. The Starliner spacecraft landed at 1:34 p.m. EDT Thursday over the southern Indian Ocean, NASA's Commercial Crew confirmed on the social media platform X. Automated...
A number of Republican lawmakers in the Pennsylvania House of Representatives on Wednesday booed two law enforcement officers who defended the U.S. Capitol during the Jan. 6, 2021, attack. Numerous lawmakers posted on the social media platform X that they witnessed members of the GOP booing and walking out of the chamber after former U.S. Capitol...
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) defended her response to Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene after the Georgia Republican accused Rep. Jasmine Crockett (D-Texas) of being unable to read because her eyelashes were too long in a House Oversight Committee hearing last month. In an interview on the podcast "On with Kara Swisher," Ocasio-Cortez said she understands some...
The Biden administration has a bad habit of breaking up large companies without consideration of context and repercussions. It's latest target? Live Nation.
The Biden administration on Thursday offered up a definition for what is considered a zero-emission building, as part of an effort to reduce building emissions around the country. The new definition is completely voluntary — but seeks to help industry figure out how to move toward cutting the structures’ contributions to climate change. “The National...
The majority of Americans have an interest in becoming their own boss, and many of those who do are willing to take financial risks in order to do so, according to a new Gallup analysis. The Shopify-Gallup Entrepreneurship study, released Thursday, found 62 percent of surveyed adults would prefer to be their own boss, while...
Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin warned on the 80th anniversary of D-Day that the world must "rally again" to defend freedom and uphold the international rules-based order. Austin, speaking in Normandy, France, to mark the anniversary, praised the Americans who stormed the beaches 80 years ago under fire from Nazi Germany for saving the world from...
Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell (Ky.) is warning isolationists within his party on the 80th anniversary of D-Day not to forget the hard-won lessons of World War II and not to fall prey to “the delusion that regional conflicts have no consequences” for the United States. McConnell marked the anniversary of the allied invasion of Nazi-occupied...
A former law clerk for Justice Samuel Alito is calling for him to recuse himself from cases before the Supreme Court in the wake of reporting that an upside-down American flag flew outside his home after the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol. “This is not an insignificant symbol,” Susan Sullivan said in...
Russian President Vladimir Putin says he is considering providing weapons to nations hostile to Western countries, a threat that comes after the U.S. gave Ukraine permission to strike with American-made weapons in a limited area of Russia. Putin, speaking to international journalists in a rare interview since the war in Ukraine, said President Biden granting...
Boeing's Starliner capsule with two astronauts on board is set to dock at the International Space Station Thursday after it launched Wednesday afternoon following numerous delays. The aim of the test flight is to help validate the transportation system, launch pad, rocket, spacecraft, in-orbit operations capabilities and return to Earth with astronauts aboard as the...
Tom Hanks says former President Trump winning a second term in the White House could indicate that America's "journey to a more perfect union has missteps in it." "I think there's always reason to be worried about the short term," the "Saving Private Ryan" star told CNN's Christiane Amanpour on Thursday, when asked if he worries about...
The majority of Americans believe that the United States made the right decision in getting involved in World Wars I and II, according to a new survey. The survey from The Economist/YouGov, published Wednesday, found that 70 percent of respondents said the U.S. was right to send troops to fight in World War II. Twenty...
