Issued on: 24/06/2022 – 21:26 The US House of Representatives on Friday passed significant gun-safety legislation for the first time in three decades, sending it to President Joe Biden, who is expected to sign it into law. The House voted 234-193 for the bill, the day after a Supreme Court ruling broadly expanded gun rights. No
A bipartisan package of modest gun safety measures passed the U.S. Senate late on Thursday even as the Supreme Court broadly expanded gun rights by ruling Americans have a constitutional right to carry handguns in public for self-defense. The landmark court ruling and Senate action on gun safety illustrate the deep divide over firearms in
Issued on: 22/06/2022 – 01:37 Jurors at a civil trial found Tuesday that Bill Cosby sexually abused a 16-year-old girl at the Playboy Mansion in 1975. The Los Angeles County jury delivered the verdict in favor of Judy Huth, who is now 64, and awarded her $500,000. “It’s been torture,” Huth said of the seven-year
When Colombians on Sunday elected their first leftist president ever, they also voted for their country’s first Black vice-president. Francia Marquez, a Black single mother who worked as a maid before challenging international mining interests as a fiery environmentalist, now becomes Colombia’s first Black female vice-president. Her victory marks a turning point in a country plagued by
Issued on: 17/06/2022 – 22:00 The United States on Friday urged accountability over the murder in the Brazilian Amazon of a British journalist and an Indigenous expert, as it hailed defenders of the rainforest. Brazil‘s Federal Police said Friday it had officially identified the remains of British journalist Dom Phillips, who was found buried in
Issued on: 17/06/2022 – 05:11 Cheers and sighs met FIFA’s announcement of the host cities for the 2026 World Cup. There were a number of no-brainers among the 16 World Cup sites, like the Los Angeles area, Mexico City and Toronto. But for some of the cities that were on the bubble, the announcement Thursday was
Issued on: 15/06/2022 – 21:05 The Federal Reserve on Wednesday intensified its drive to tame high inflation by raising its key interest rate by three-quarters of a point — its largest hike in nearly three decades — and signaling more large rate increases to come that would raise the risk of another recession. The move
Raging floods, devastating fires, powerful thunderstorms and a dangerous heat wave affecting a third of the population: the United States was being walloped Tuesday by climate-related catastrophes. A series of slow-motion disasters is gripping the country as it enters summer, with warnings of misery for months to come in some areas. Around 120 million people
Issued on: 14/06/2022 – 08:03 US National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan met with his Chinese counterpart on Monday, the White House said, describing their lengthy exchange as a “candid” attempt to “manage the dynamic” between the rival powers. Sullivan’s meeting with Yang Jiechi in Luxembourg lasted about four and a half hours, a senior White
Issued on: 14/06/2022 – 01:14 Former US president Donald Trump lost touch with reality as he deluged aides with wild voter fraud conspiracy theories in the wake of his election defeat to Joe Biden, his top law enforcement official said in videotaped testimony revealed Monday. Appearing in a pre-recorded deposition at a congressional hearing into
