TRUMP GETS STRONGER IN IOWA. The Iowa caucuses, the first votes of the 2024 Republican presidential race, are five weeks from today. There's a new poll out this morning from the Des Moines Register finding that former President Donald Trump has a "commanding" lead in Iowa that has expanded in the last two months, even as his legal troubles mounted, even as challenger Nikki Haley received glowing media coverage, and even as closest competitor Gov. Ron DeSantis (R-FL) recovered his equilibrium. Through it all, Trump's lead has grown.
This age of social media is also the age of the insta-celebrity. It’s an age in which in-person human connections are diminished in favor of unfulfilling cyber-relations, an era in which loneliness grows while religious faith shrinks. It is an age in which someone almost nobody had heard of in 2004 could get elected president in 2008, as former President Barack Obama once accurately mused that he served as a “blank slate” upon which people of multiple views could project their wishes.
President Biden will speak Monday at Philadelphia’s Ladder 1 fire station, a company disbanded in the late 2000s, but now reopening through part of a $22.4 million FEMA grant to the city’s fire department. Two other fire companies in Philadelphia will also be able to resume operations with the funding. The Philadelphia Inquirer notes that Ladder...
The head of the World Health Organization (WHO) is sounding the alarm over the health system in Gaza, warning the situation will worsen as the war rages on into the winter months. WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus reiterated in remarks Sunday that he condemned the deadly attacks by militant group Hamas on Israel more than two months...
Rep. Dean Phillips (D-Minn.), a 2024 Democratic presidential candidate, suggested in an interview that the impeachment inquiry into President Biden could make him “unelectable” as a general election nominee. Phillips said in an interview with Semafor published Monday that while he hasn't seen evidence suggesting Biden did anything wrong — a point stressed by the...
The latest iteration of negotiating text at this year’s global climate summit has dropped a previous version’s suggestion of a phaseout of fossil fuels. Instead, the latest draft text, introduced Monday, calls for “reducing” consumption and production of fossil fuels "in a just, orderly and equitable manner." A group of 80 countries, including the U.S.,...
Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny has been missing for six days, his spokesperson said Monday. Navalny press secretary Kira Yarmysh wrote on X, formerly Twitter, that Navalny did not appear in court Monday for a scheduled appearance and has not been heard from in the past six days. Yarmysh said she and other Navalny supporters...
The U.S. slammed China for "reckless disregard" and provocative action after Chinese coast guard boats shot water cannons at Philippine ships and collided with a vessel in the South China Sea over the weekend. State Department spokesperson Matthew Miller said Chinese boats also deployed acoustic devices, or sound cannons, which can employ extremely loud sounds...