On Sunday, United States President-elect Donald Trump said that his new administration will try and regain control of the Panama Canal. His statements drew rebuke from Panama President Jose Raul Mulino. Here is more about what Trump said and why the Panama Canal is significant to the US: What did Trump say? Trump brought up…
Fentanyl is increasingly behind opioid overdose deaths in Canada, according to new government data. The national health agency on Monday reported that nearly 50,000 people in the North American country died from opioid overdose deaths from January 2016 to June 2024. During that period, fentanyl, a highly addictive synthetic opioid sometimes prescribed for pain relief,…
Luigi Mangione, the 26-year-old man accused of fatally shooting United Healthcare CEO Brian Thompson, has pleaded not guilty to New York state charges that allege he committed an “act of terrorism”. The plea made in a Manhattan court on Monday came days after federal prosecutors lodged their own charges against Mangione in connection with the…
United States President Joe Biden has commuted the sentences of 37 of the 40 people on federal death row in his weeks in office before the second term of President-elect Donald Trump. The move, announced on Monday, means that the 37 individuals will instead face life in prison for their convictions, according to the White…
NewsFeed Video: Trump rejects claims Elon Musk has too much influence President-elect Donald Trump told his supporters at a rally that billionaire ally Elon Musk was ‘not taking the presidency’. Published On 23 Dec 202423 Dec 2024
The United States has long been Israel’s primary international backer, lending it vast political, diplomatic and financial support. This has only increased since Israel began its assault on Gaza last October, even as it gradually expanded the parameters of its war, in which it is widely accused by human rights groups of committing genocide. According…
United States President-elect Donald Trump has been greeted by thousands of supporters at his first rally speech in Arizona since winning the November election. Trump employed his usual aggressiveness, including ratcheting up threats against Panama and sending a message to billionaire Elon Musk. Here are some key takeaways from the 75-minute speech: President-elect offers talk…
Rashid Khalidi, America’s foremost scholar on Palestine, best described the sorry state of higher education in the United States today in a recent interview. Explaining his decision to retire from his position as Edward Said chair of modern Arab history at Columbia University, he said, “I didn’t want to be a cog in that machine…
Police in New York City have arrested a man they suspect set a woman on fire while she appeared to be asleep on the subway train, killing her. The woman, who has not been identified, sat motionlessly on board a stationary F train at the Coney Island-Stillwell Avenue subway station in Brooklyn at about 7:30am…
United States President-elect Donald Trump has pushed back on the notion that he has “ceded the presidency” to billionaire Elon Musk, who has taken an outsized role in the president-elect’s transition into the White House. Trump made the comments during a speech in Arizona on Sunday, days after the Tesla and SpaceX owner intervened alongside…
