NASA Administrator Bill Nelson says bringing astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams back to Earth on faulty Starliner is too risky. Two NASA astronauts who flew to the International Space Station (ISS) in June aboard Boeing’s faulty Starliner capsule will return to Earth on a SpaceX vehicle early next year,…
A delegation from the Palestinian group Hamas has landed in Cairo on Saturday evening to “listen to the results of negotiations thus far” between mediators – Egypt, Qatar and the United States – and Israel. Observers are reluctant to call this a hopeful sign as conviction grows that Gaza ceasefire…
I almost wish someone would ask us: how does it feel to be a pit stop? To be a refuelling station where sputtering-out political campaigns pull up to receive a laying on of hands; where a Black baritone reverend holds the president’s shoulder and between benedictions issues forth some version…
Emmitt Martin is one of five fired officers charged over the fatal beating in 2023 that renewed calls for police reform. A second former Memphis police officer has pleaded guilty to federal charges in the death of Black motorist Tyre Nichols, whose videotaped beating by five Black officers in January…
White House says Russia ‘will not prevail’ after announcing $125m aid package meant to bolster Ukrainian air defences. The United States has announced a new round of military assistance to Ukraine, following a phone call between Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and US President Joe Biden. The Pentagon stated on Friday…
Chicago, Illinois – As balloons dropped from the ceiling of a packed United Center in Chicago, row upon row of Democratic Party faithful rose to their feet, clapping and shouting out with joy. It was Thursday night, and Kamala Harris had just delivered the closing speech of this year’s Democratic…
US vice president pledges support for Israel as she accepts the Democratic Party nomination. Kamala Harris, the daughter of immigrants from Jamaica and India, has become the first Black woman and first person of South Asian descent to accept the presidential nomination of a major party in the United States….
Third-party presidential candidate Robert F Kennedy Jr has suspended his long-shot bid for the White House, throwing his weight instead behind the Republican candidate, former United States President Donald Trump. Friday’s announcement was the culmination of weeks of speculation, as Kennedy receded in the polls. Still, he offered a message…
Fast rise in prices led the Fed to increase its benchmark policy rate from near zero to the highest range in a quarter of a century. United States Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell has offered an explicit endorsement of interest rate cuts, saying further cooling in the job market would be…
Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, known as AMLO, has criticised the United States for recent comments that framed his proposed judicial overhaul as a “risk” to Mexico’s democracy. In a morning press conference on Friday, Lopez Obrador described the criticism as “disrespectful” to Mexico’s “national sovereignty”. “I hope this…
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