Month: December 2019

Stirling (United Kingdom) (AFP) – Surprise victories in Scotland helped save the Conservative Party in the 2017 election but Britain’s Prime Minister Boris Johnson is in danger of losing those gains next week, forcing him to look elsewhere for a parliamentary majority. “This time is going to be very, very tight,” Stephen Kerr, the Conservative…

If you ever wanted to see a living example of irony, you should have been in Delhi last night. As the city is grappling with existential anxiety in terms of high pollution levels, people just refused to take preventive measures to curb pollution. Well, some actually did; they were out in the open, bursting firecrackers…

Poet busted for pot in 1969 makes 1st purchase of legal recreational weed in Michigan originally appeared on abcnews.go.com At the age of 28, John Sinclair was arrested in 1969 for possessing two marijuana joints and sent to prison for nearly three years. On Sunday, the now 78-year-old poet and activist became the first person…

Key Point: Most of China’s air force is made up of Cold War-era fighters. For a nation that boasts of developing an advanced stealth fighter, it seems strange that China would need to buy warplanes from its former rival Russia. Yet Moscow is offering to sell more Su-35 fighters to Beijing – and Chinese media…

Over the weekend, Brian Stelter aired a segment on Reliable Sources titled “A Tale of Two Fox News Judges” in which he expressed concern that “dissenting” voices like that of Judge Andrew Napolitano were being “drowned out by the sycophants” like Judge Jeanine Pirro. “Do you think there’s room left for people like Judge Napolitano…

Villa Union (Mexico) (AFP) – Mexican forces hunted Monday for a drug cartel commando behind a bloody firefight in a town near the US border that left six locals and 16 gunmen dead — the latest security embarrassment for President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador. At least 60 gunmen terrorized the small northern city of Villa…

(Bloomberg) — The U.S is “likely” to bring additional charges in a case against Lev Parnas and Igor Fruman, associates of Rudy Giuliani who are accused of skirting campaign contribution limits as part of a plot to oust the American ambassador to Ukraine, a prosecutor said. The comment was made Monday at an hour-long court…

NEW YORK — Federal prosecutors are likely to file updated criminal allegations in a case against two associates of Rudy Giuliani and two codefendants, a government lawyer said in court Monday. An updated indictment, hinted at by Assistant U.S. Attorney Douglas Zolkind, could add to the charges that Lev Parnas and Igor Fruman, Soviet-born U.S. citizens, already face: conspiring…

NEW YORK (AP) — An upgraded indictment is likely in the criminal case against two Rudy Giuliani associates with ties to Ukraine, a prosecutor said Monday. Assistant U.S. Attorney Douglas Zolkind made the prediction during a pretrial hearing in the case against Lev Parnas and Igor Fruman. “We think a superseding indictment is likely, but…

By Amanda Becker (Reuters) – Democratic White House hopeful Elizabeth Warren on Tuesday said that if elected she would require employers of 15 or more to post work schedules at least two weeks in advance, in a bid to tackle unpredictable and last-minute scheduling. The proposal is modeled after a bill that Warren, a U.S.…