An economic affairs ministry fund set up to support innovative projects which could have a significant role in the Dutch economy has been frozen, after MPs voted against a motion to support it. Economic affairs minister Micky Adriaansens closed the fund on Tuesday after MPs failed to support a D66 motion expressing support for the project. The future of the fund now lies in the hands of the four parties negotiating on forming a new right-wing coalition cabinet. The fund
Bulgaria's prime minister-designate has withdrawn her nomination after
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As a political scientist, I've long believed political competition to be the keystone of representative democracy. Yet in the 2024 election cycle, I'm consciously limiting my time, attention and contributions to politics. I’ve turned off the news and social media app notifications on my phone. I plan to visit two or three trustworthy news websites only once a day. And I’ve unsubscribed to candidate fundraising emails. Why? Because while political competition theoretically drives efficient and...
EYEWITNESS NEWS (WBRE/WYOU) — The Office of State Inspector General (OSIG) stated in February that 94 individuals have been charged with public assistance fraud. OSIG says the restitution owned to the Commonwealth totals $411,192 and the 94 defendants will be temporarily disqualified from receiving public benefits within the programs they allegedly defrauded. Allegedly, those charged []
After weeks of often wild speculation about the nature of her planned abdominal surgery and subsequent months-long absence from the public eye, Catherine, Princess of Wales announced Friday that she is in the early stages of treatment for cancer found during post-operative tests. "This of course came as a huge shock, and William and I have been doing everything we can to process and manage this privately for the sake of our young family," Kate, 42, said in a video filmed Wednesday at Windsor by...
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CBS’s Stephen Colbert has used The Late Show to routinely condemn Supreme Court rulings after it rejected his legal theories from way out in left field. On Monday, Colbert welcomed former liberal Justice Stephen Breyer to the show to promote the latter's new book and seek affirmation that his views of the Court are correct. Unfortunately for him, Breyer refused to play along. In the first segment with Breyer, Colbert asked, “Do you, former Justice Breyer, believe that former presidents have...
CBS’s Stephen Colbert has used The Late Show to routinely condemn Supreme Court rulings after it rejected his legal theories from way out in left field. On Monday, Colbert welcomed former liberal Justice Stephen Breyer to the show to promote the latter's new book and seek affirmation that his views of the Court are correct. Unfortunately for him, Breyer refused to play along. In the first segment with Breyer, Colbert asked, “Do you, former Justice Breyer, believe that former presidents have...
Lawyers for former President Trump argued Thursday that the charges he faces in Georgia target core political speech and urged the judge to dismiss them under the First Amendment before the case he
Political news publisher Splinter relaunched Tuesday morning, three months after it was acquired by Paste Magazine in a package deal, alongside feminist publisher Jezebel, from G/O Media for an undisclosed sum. Splinter has been dormant since November 2019, and it plans to produce the aggressively left-leaning political coverage that once made it an editorial lightning rod under its former owner, Gawker Media Group. “The goal here is not to reinvent the wheel,” said Paste Magazine founder...
Novelist Kurt Vonnegut once wrote true terror was “to wake up one morning and discover that your high school class is running the country.” In South Carolina, perhaps that should be modified: True terror is to realize the South Carolina House of Representatives is in session. Just this week, the Republican majority pushed the envelope […]