Addressing a Shanghai Cooperation Organization summit in India, Chinese Foreign Minister Qin Gang embraced the rhetoric of French President Emmanuel Macron.
Although the Federal Reserve quietly removed its forward guidance from its latest announcement that it would raise interest rates by another 25 basis points, job growth continues to come in way too hot to assume that the central bank will not raise rates at least once more during the year.
TEAM DESANTIS: WE'RE ABOUT ACTION, NOT BELTWAY CHATTER. There's no doubt Gov. Ron DeSantis (R-FL) has fallen far behind former President Donald Trump in the 2024 Republican nomination polls. In the last days of February, Trump had a 12.8 percentage point lead over DeSantis in the RealClearPolitics average of national polls, with all the other Republican challengers and likely challengers way, way back. Now, Trump's lead over DeSantis is 29.2 points, with all the other GOP candidates still farther behind. DeSantis is actually closer to the bottom of the field than he is to Trump.
There are two countries in the world where new monarchs are crowned with a Christian liturgy — crowned, that is, in the literal sense of having metal placed on their heads. One, obviously, is the United Kingdom. The other is Tonga, where a British-style coronation involving the local Anglican archbishop has been tacked onto the older ritual of ceremonial kava-drinking.
Legalizing recreational marijuana has had many deleterious effects on society, from the awful smell that hangs in the air everywhere to the increase in marijuana-related DUI accidents.
Over the course of the novel’s 736 pages, we learn about India’s Anglo-Indian community, doomed by the Raj to never be accepted as fully British or fully Indian.
