Isaac Sturgeon is accused of shoving a metal barricade at police An American linked to January’s deadly riots at the US Capitol in Washington DC has been summoned to a court in New York after being deported from Kenya. Isaac Sturgeon, 32, of Dillon, Montana, was arrested by the FBI on arrival at JFK airport […]
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Anna Sorokin returns from a recess during her trial at New York State Supreme Court – Richard Drew/AP The fraudster known as ‘the fake heiress’ takes criticism of her as a ‘sociopath’ as a compliment, she has revealed in her first post-prison interview. Anna Sorokin, 30, a Russian-born German citizen who moved to the US […]
Sen. Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.), America’s ultimate swing voter, told me on “Axios on HBO” that he’ll insist Republicans have more of a voice on President Biden’s next big package than they did on the COVID stimulus. The big picture: Manchin said he’ll push for tax hikes to pay for Biden’s upcoming infrastructure and climate proposal, […]
WASHINGTON (AP) — In a first step toward reversing a contentious Trump administration policy, President Joe Biden on Monday ordered his administration to review federal rules guiding colleges in their handling of campus sexual assaults. In an executive order, Biden directed the Education Department to examine rules that the Trump administration issued around Title IX, […]
BANGKOK (AP) — Prosecutors in Thailand charged 18 pro-democracy activists with sedition on Monday, while lodging additional charges of insulting the monarchy against three of them. The sedition charges, which carry a maximum penalty of up to seven years in prison, stem from an antigovernment rally in September, though details on the alleged offenses were […]
A raucous — and largely maskless — 800-person party in Colorado left SWAT officers injured and several vehicles damaged overnight Saturday, police say. The party had been going for hours in Boulder’s University Hill neighborhood near the University of Colorado Boulder when police responded to the scene, the Daily Camera reported. Police estimate there were […]
The Pennsylvania Avenue entrance of the FBI’s J. Edgar Hoover building. (Carolyn Kaster/AP) WASHINGTON — A group of House Democrats is mounting a renewed push to strip J. Edgar Hoover’s name off the FBI headquarters in the wake of a powerful new film that highlights one of the bureau’s worst abuses under his leadership: a […]
WASHINGTON — The Republican Party is showing signs of softening its trademark fiscal conservative brand in favor of a new populist approach, a potentially seminal shift as the party becomes more reliant on blue-collar white voters after Donald Trump’s presidency. The last time Republicans were thrown out of power, in 2009, they embraced an unabashed […]
Bloomberg Saudi Arabia’s Bold Plan to Rule the $700 Billion Hydrogen Market (Bloomberg) — Sun-scorched expanses and steady Red Sea breezes make the northwest tip of Saudi Arabia prime real estate for what the kingdom hopes will become a global hub for green hydrogen.As governments and industries seek less-polluting alternatives to hydrocarbons, the world’s biggest […]