President Biden on Thursday called for police reform after five Memphis police officers were charged with second-degree murder and other crimes in the death of Tyre Nichols, who died three days after a confrontation with officers in a traffic stop.
There is a kind of mystical importance associated with the phrase "first in the nation" when it is attached to the noble act of voting in a major election. New Hampshire has long starred in this coveted role in presidential primaries.But the state would have to repeal that law should the tradition go out the window in the name of change.
U.S. Special Operations forces killed senior Islamic State leader Bilal al-Sudani during a raid of a mountainous cave complex in northern Somalia, senior Biden administration officials confirmed on Thursday.
Leftwing activists hit Rep. Adam Schiff as soon as he announced his run for a Senate seat in California, arguing that he was too weak against former President Donald Trump and challenging the status quo of the Democratic Party.
The Jacksonville Jaguars may have lost their playoff matchup to the Kansas City Chiefs, but at least one Floridian left Arrowhead Stadium on a positive note.
The American Heritage Dictionary notes: “The word taboo first appears in English in the journals of Captain James Cook. ... In 1777, Cook wrote that the word ‘taboo ... has a very comprehensive meaning; but, in general, signifies that a thing is forbidden. ... When any thing is forbidden to be eat, or made use of, they say, that it is taboo.’ Cook was in Tonga at the time, and so it is the Tongan form 'tabu' that is the source of the English word 'taboo.' However, words related to Tongan tabu are found in other Polynesian languages, such as Maori 'tapu' and Hawaiian 'kapu.' (In the history of Hawaiian, the original Polynesian t-sound has regularly changed to a k-sound.)" We therefore learn that this native Hawaiian word “kapu” would have been the first version of our term “taboo” used in what is now American territory.
Bipartisanship is rare in Washington, but President Joe Biden’s national intelligence director, Avril Haines, managed to unite Senate Democrats and Republicans this week after she declined to show the Senate Intelligence Committee copies of classified documents discovered at the properties of past and present Presidents Donald Trump and Joe Biden.