Secretary of State Antony Blinken and Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas met with Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador to obtain his assistance in...
"The national debt is headed towards record levels," warns the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget, a nonpartisan group committed in its mission statement to educating the public on fiscal policy. They've got the numbers.
Former President Donald Trump's presidential campaign is bashing President Biden in a new ad for the way he has handled the crisis at the southern border, saying the president's policies have created a "violent threat."
A federal judge on Thursday accepted new Georgia congressional and legislative voting districts that protect Republican partisan advantages, saying the creation of new majority-Black voting districts solved the illegal minority vote dilution that led him to order maps to be redrawn.
A Pennsylvania man who was sentenced in secret for his role in the U.S. Capitol riot cooperated with authorities investigating the Jan. 6, 2021, attack and an unrelated case, according to court documents unsealed this week.
This is not the first time that Moscow has taken advantage of fighting in Gaza to pursue revanchist objectives in Europe. The 1956 Suez War, a war fought as much in Gaza as in Sinai, gave the Soviet Politburo an opportunity to crush the Hungarian rising.
Just like the opening sentence of Disgrace states that protagonist David Lurie has (to his own mind) “solved the problem of sex rather well” — meaning that he meets a reliable prostitute once a week — J.M. Coetzee’s new novel, The Pole, establishes on the very first page that it is written by a heterosexual male. Its main character, Beatriz, has a “full mouth” and her “low contralto” voice possesses a “suave attractive power.” “Is she sexy?” asks the unnamed narrator. “No, she is not sexy, and certainly not seductive.” But “with a figure like that” she must’ve been quite something in her youth; though now, nearing 50, “she goes in for a certain remoteness” — she doesn’t even swing her hips any longer.