'We're in!' Andrew Yang's campaign manager notifies him mid-interview he's made the debate stage
DES MOINES — Just a few minutes into Andrew Yang’s meeting with the Des Moines Register’s editorial board Tuesday, his campaign manager motioned for his attention, holding a piece of paper above his head with a hastily scrawled message: “4%! We’re in!” With just days left until this week’s deadline, Yang secured the final poll he…
Statue depicts black man "speaking back" to Confederate monument admirers
A new statue of a black man on horseback now sits a few blocks from a famous row of Confederate monuments in Richmond, Virginia, the former capital of the Confederacy. It was inspired by one of the Confederate monuments, a statue of General Jeb Stuart on horseback, but it sends a very different message. “CBS…
Virginia museum unveils Kehinde Wiley work in response to Confederate statues
As national debate continues in the US about the fate of Confederate statues, in the Virginia capital of Richmond a monument that sends a very different message was unveiled on Tuesday. Related: Kehinde Wiley: ‘When I first started painting black women, it was a return home’ Though like many of the Confederate statues and memorials…
Saudi Arabia is quietly spending millions on a fresh lobbying effort in the US, hoping to finally put to bed Jamal Khashoggi's brutal murder
Reuters Saudi Arabia has reignited its formal lobby efforts in the US, a year on from the murder of Jamal Khashoggi and at a sensitive time for US-Saudi relations. Saudi Arabia was made a pariah by lobbyists after Khashoggi’s murder, with five major US clients jilting them in a single week after the killing. On…
Why the Marines Love Their LAV-25 "Destroyers"
Key point: The LAV-25 has served in many conflicts and proven its usefulness. The LAV-25, the U.S. Marine Corps’ main armored reconnaissance vehicle, has its origins in an effort to develop a new, highly mobile strike force for the Middle East. Fast, lightly armored and armed with a Bushmaster chain gun, the LAV acts as the…
Texas to execute inmate convicted of killing prison boot factory supervisor
By Brendan O’Brien (Reuters) – Texas plans on Wednesday to execute a man convicted more than a decade ago of killing a prison boot factory supervisor by slitting his throat because he was upset he had to work as a janitor. Click Here: liverpool mens jersey Travis Runnels, 46, is scheduled to die by lethal…
UPDATE 1-Texas executes inmate convicted of killing prison supervisor
(Adds details on Runnels’ case, background on U.S. executions) Dec 11 (Reuters) – Texas on Wednesday executed an inmate convicted of killing a prison boot factory supervisor because he was upset he had to work as a janitor. Travis Runnels, 46, was put to death by lethal injection at the state’s death chamber in Huntsville…
Texas inmate executed for killing prison supervisor in 2003
HUNTSVILLE, Texas (AP) — A Texas inmate was executed by lethal injection Wednesday evening for killing a supervisor at a state prison shoe factory in Amarillo nearly 17 years ago. Click Here: chanel perfume sale Travis Runnels, 46, was convicted of slashing the throat of 38-year-old Stanley Wiley on Jan. 29, 2003. Runnels was executed…
Shazam : des retrouvailles pour Dwayne Johnson ?
C’est la rumeur du jour : Dwayne Johnson pourrait retrouver Brad Peyton, son réalisateur de “San Andreas”, pour le film de super-héros “Shazam”. C’est la rumeur (à prendre avec des pincettes) du jour : le site Batman-news rapporte que Dwayne Johnson pourrait retrouver Brad Peyton, son réalisateur de San Andreas, pour les besoins du film de…
Taliban bombers target key US Afghanistan base as talks resume
Kabul (AFP) – Taliban suicide bombers targeted a key US military base in Afghanistan Wednesday in a major attack that killed two civilians and wounded more than 70 others, officials said, amid renewed peace talks between the United States and the militants. The early morning assault began when a suicide bomber detonated his explosive-packed vehicle…