How is the US presidential election shaping up? | US Election 2024 News

How is the US presidential election shaping up? | US Election 2024 News

Donald Trump is the favourite to become the Republican candidate and face Joe Biden in the presidential election. Campaigning is under way for the United States presidential election, and a repeat contest is expected between President Joe Biden and his predecessor Donald Trump. Biden is the oldest candidate in US…

Watching the Watchdogs: Law, Propaganda, and the Media walk into a bar | Opinions

Watching the Watchdogs: Law, Propaganda, and the Media walk into a bar | Opinions

This month, the world watched South Africa initiate International Court of Justice (ICJ) hearings on the genocidal acts Israel committed in Gaza. In a two-day session on January 11 and 12, the court heard the extensive evidence the South African legal team had gathered to support their case against Israel,…

Doomsday clock stays at 90 seconds to midnight: What we know | Science and Technology News

Doomsday clock stays at 90 seconds to midnight: What we know | Science and Technology News

Atomic scientists have kept their Doomsday Clock set at 90 seconds to midnight as they did last year, citing worry about Russia’s potential use of nuclear weapons amid its invasion of Ukraine, Israel’s war on Gaza and worsening climate change as factors driving the risk of global catastrophe. Here is…

Oscar nominations 2024: full list of Academy Award nominees | Arts and Culture News

Oscar nominations 2024: full list of Academy Award nominees | Arts and Culture News

Oppenheimer dominates 96th Academy Award nominations with 13 in total including best picture. Filmmaker Christopher Nolan’s, Oppenheimer, dominated nominations for the 96th Academy Awards, followed by Yorgos Lanthimos’s, Poor Things, and Martin Scorsese’s, Killers of the Flower Moon. Nolan’s three-hour-long film about the father of the atomic bomb received 13…

US denies Yemen’s Houthis claim of attack on US military cargo ship | Israel War on Gaza News

US denies Yemen’s Houthis claim of attack on US military cargo ship | Israel War on Gaza News

The armed group says it conducted its attack on the Ocean Jazz in response to US and UK attacks on Houthi positions. The United States has rejected a claim made by Yemen’s Houthi rebels that they attacked the US military cargo ship Ocean Jazz in the Gulf of Aden. “The…

Could a divided Jewish base upend US Democrats’ presidential hopes? | Elections News

Could a divided Jewish base upend US Democrats’ presidential hopes? | Elections News

Dearborn, Michigan – Raised in a Jewish American household, Dana Kornberg was in her early 20s when she started to become critical of the Israeli government. It was 2006, and Kornberg was touring Israel, as part of what is called a birthright trip, a tradition for Jewish teens and young…

US aviation regulator calls for inspections of older Boeing 737 planes | News

US aviation regulator calls for inspections of older Boeing 737 planes | News

Federal Aviation Administration recommends checks on Boeing 737-900ER planes. The US Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has recommended that airlines inspect door plugs on Boeing 737-900ER jets after a blowout this month on another type of aircraft with a similar mid-cabin exit. In a statement late on Sunday, the aviation regulator…

Trump may testify in E Jean Carroll defamation case: Here’s what’s to know | Donald Trump News

Trump may testify in E Jean Carroll defamation case: Here’s what’s to know | Donald Trump News

Former United States President Donald Trump may testify on Monday in a defamation trial over his 2019 comments branding writer E Jean Carroll a liar who faked a sexual attack to sell a memoir. He plans to be in court as the New York trial resumes after a weekend break….

Ron DeSantis drops out of US presidential race, endorses Trump | Elections News

Ron DeSantis drops out of US presidential race, endorses Trump | Elections News

Florida Governor Ron DeSantis has suspended his Republican US presidential campaign just before the New Hampshire primary and endorsed Donald Trump, ending a White House bid that failed to meet expectations that he would emerge as a serious challenger to the former president. “It’s clear to me that a majority…