WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden called out two fellow Democrats on Tuesday in explaining why he hasn’t enacted some of the most ambitious elements of his agenda, noting that slim majorities in the House and evenly divided Senate have hamstrung legislative negotiations around key issues like voting rights. Biden, speaking during an event marking […]
The New York Times How the World Ran Out of Everything In the story of how the modern world was constructed, Toyota stands out as the mastermind of a monumental advance in industrial efficiency. The Japanese automaker pioneered so-called Just In Time manufacturing, in which parts are delivered to factories right as they are required, […]
MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) — Workers arrived at a Tennessee park Tuesday to begin the process of digging up the remains of Confederate Gen. Nathan Bedford Forrest and moving the former slave trader’s body from its longtime resting place in Memphis to a museum hundreds of miles away. Crews prepared to remove the graves of Forrest […]
The Guardian Biden ‘finishing the job’ my administration started, Obama says President says of Biden’s tenure: ‘It’ll be an interesting test’‘Trump benefited from the economic stability we initiated’ Barack Obama with Joe Biden at Trump’s inauguration in 2017. Obama also said a successful Biden administration ‘will have an impact’ on a deeply polarised political landscape. […]
Authorities are offering $130,000 for information leading to the arrest and conviction of the suspects in a mass shooting in Miami that left at least two people dead and more than 20 injured early Sunday. “This is unacceptable,” Miami-Dade County Mayor Daniella Levine Cava told reporters on Monday, as the nation observed Memorial Day. “We […]
The New York Times The Luckiest Workers in America? Teenagers. Roller coaster operators and lemonade slingers at Kennywood amusement park, a Pittsburgh summer staple, will not have to buy their own uniforms this year. Those with a high school diploma will also earn $13 as a starting wage — up from $9 last year — […]
GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip (AP) — Hamas’s top leader in the Gaza Strip on Monday expressed optimism about reaching a prisoner exchange with Israel, while Egyptian mediators seek to hammer out a long-term cease-fire following an 11-day war in the Gaza Strip earlier this month. Yehiyeh Sinwar spoke after meeting with Egyptian intelligence chief Abbas […]
MEXICO CITY (AP) — The notoriously violent Jalisco cartel has responded to Mexico’s “hugs, not bullets” policy with a policy of its own: The cartel kidnapped several members of an elite police force in the state of Guanajuato, tortured them to obtain names and addresses of fellow officers and is now hunting down and killing […]
Biden As Joe Biden sat behind the wheel of an electric pickup truck in Michigan recently a reporter’s inquiry through the window was polite enough. “Mr President, can I ask you a quick question on Israel before you drive away, since it’s so important?” said the reporter. Mr Biden responded curtly: “No. You can’t. Not […]
Southwest Airlines said it did not tolerate “behaviour of this nature” A former US airline pilot has admitted committing a “lewd, indecent, or obscene act” during a flight last year. Michael Haak, 60, exposed himself to the female first officer in the cockpit and watched pornography on a laptop, prosecutors said. As the Southwest Airlines […]