How does a 37-year-old with no experience outside city government and just four years on Oakland’s City Council win a hotly contested mayoral race? By becoming the candidate of government unions, of course. Oakland Mayor Sheng Thao’s home was raided by the FBI last week as were two other homes owned by members of the […]
The general election polls show former President Donald Trump with a small lead over President Joe Biden before the first presidential debate. The key to winning this debate will be which candidate can pull in the Nikki Haley voters who have remained without a candidate since she suspended her campaign in March. Haley voters are […]
President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump will meet for a debate Thursday for the first time since 2020. One of the first things Trump should do is call out Biden for the lies and misinformation he told during the 2020 debate about his son Hunter Biden’s laptop, which Biden said didn’t exist and […]
Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s future is in question after his Liberal Party suffered an embarrassing loss of a safe seat in a recent special election. The opposition Conservative Party secured a victory in the Toronto-St Paul’s constituency for the first time in more than three decades. This was also the first time a Conservative […]
If former President Donald Trump wants to win tonight’s debate, he needs not to discuss his theory that President Joe Biden stole the 2020 election. Both candidates are known entities, so they do not need to compete for the spotlight. Rather, whoever has more attention focused on them during this debate will likely suffer as […]
In a highly unusual public admonishment, China announced criminal allegations against two former high-ranking defense officials Thursday. First is Wei Fenghe, China’s defense minister between 2018 and 2023. Wei is a former head of the People’s Liberation Army‘s Rocket Force, which is China’s land-based conventional and nuclear missile command, and a member of the powerful […]
The average-sized household in Fairfax County, Virginia, has 2 or 3 people — 2.71 people, according to the U.S. Census Bureau. My household in Fairfax County has eight people — plus two dogs. Fairfax has a confusing system for residential trash collection, but if your home is serviced by the county, you get one big […]
Senate Majority Whip Dick Durbin (D-Ill.), 79, said he underwent a “successful” hip replacement surgery Wednesday and will remain in Illinois as he recovers. The No. 2 Senate Democrat will return to Washington once he is cleared to travel by his doctor, Durbin’s office said in a statement. “Today, I had a routine hip replacement...
About 55 percent of the water emanating from U.S. rivers is vulnerable to pollution, due to their lack of protections under the Clean Water Act, a new study has found. The Supreme Court last year ruled that "ephemeral streams" — those that fill up and flow only after weather events — do not fall under...
Russians are increasingly unwilling to serve and are thereby depressing supply, while the manpower deficit on the battlefield is growing and is thereby increasing demand.