• CPJ urges Argentine President Javier Milei to end attacks on press freedom

    São Paulo, April 30, 2024—Argentine President Javier Milei and his administration must immediately refrain from attacking press freedom, stigmatizing journalists, and allow journalists to do their jobs freely and without restrictions, the Committee to Protect Journalists said on Tuesday. During his first 100 days in office, a report by FOPEA, a local press freedom organization, found that

  • Japan’s Ruling Party Loses Special Election in Blow to PM Kishida

    Japan’s ruling party lost a special election Prime Minister Fumio Kishida had described in part as a judgment on himself, months ahead of a party leadership vote.

  • Politico’s J-Mart Laments: ‘If The Election’s About Biden, Trump’s Gonna Win’

    Behold the latest installment of media types fretting over the current course of the presidential election. In this instance, Politico Senior Political Columnist Jonathan Martin lamenting that the current trajectory of the election, a referendum on President Joe Biden, augurs the reelection of former President Donald Trump on this week’s installment of ABC This Week. Watch as J-Mart and host Jon Karl discuss the election’s current trajectory, as aired on ABC This Week on Sunday, April 21st,...

  • Politico’s J-Mart Laments: ‘If The Election’s About Biden, Trump’s Gonna Win’

    Behold the latest installment of media types fretting over the current course of the presidential election. In this instance, Politico Senior Political Columnist Jonathan Martin lamenting that the current trajectory of the election, a referendum on President Joe Biden, augurs the reelection of former President Donald Trump on this week’s installment of ABC This Week. Watch as J-Mart and host Jon Karl discuss the election’s current trajectory, as aired on ABC This Week on Sunday, April 21st,...

  • Why has the yen fallen to a decade’s low and what does it mean for Japan’s economy?

    The accelerating slide in the value of Japan’s currency could ultimately be bad news for people in Japan who are heavily reliant on importsThe value of Japan’s currency has tumbled so much, that its value is back to where it was in 1990, shortly after Japan’s famous “bubble economy” burst. For a moment on Monday it was trading at 160 yen to US$1. A few years ago, it was closer to 100 yen to US$1.The yen’s accelerating slide could ultimately be bad news for people in Japan. A weaker yen squeezes...

  • Biden’s bend to trans activism leaves women’s sports in turmoil

    Over the past year, I’ve had numerous conversations with people, including family members, who believe the whole transgender issue is a big old nothing-burger. They say it’s just another political football used to score points with the right to drum up rage and, ultimately, votes. I wish that were true. In its never-ending genuflection to extreme activists, the Biden administration continues to undo years of women’s rights efforts with the single stroke of a pen. Late last week, Biden, in...

    • MSNBC

    Students at MLK’s alma mater are outraged over Biden’s visit. Listen to them.

    Amid growing discontent about America funding Israel’s bombing of Gaza, President Joe Biden is set to give the commencement speech at Morehouse College on May 19. Morehouse, a 157-year-old historically Black college in Atlanta, extended the invitation to Biden in September, the month before Hamas launched a deadly attack in Israel and took hostages. But news of the president’s scheduled address wasn’t announced until last week, when anti-war protesters on college campuses across the country were...

  • Japan’s cyber-security weakness a concern in U.S. defense alliance

    TOKYO >> As the United States faces security threats across the globe, its close ally Japan has committed to stepping up as a trusted defense partner, but Tokyo’s cyber and information security vulnerabilities remain a concern, officials and experts say.

  • Russell Brand’s rosary, Biden is God’s pick? And deaconesses already?

    Actor Russell Brand has delivered a pleasant shock to the world by recently reciting the rosary for his 11+ million followers on X. While society may descend into crisis, God’s generous outpouring of graces continues to emerge in unlikely places for all to see. Influential Jesuit Fr. Thomas Reese recently stated President Biden has been deemed as God’s pick for the United States’ top office, but what is the real truth of this observation? Meanwhile, in Europe the heretical move to elevate...

    • CNN

    Pritzker on Biden avoiding Trump’s legal woes: He’s ‘handling it perfectly’

    Democratic Gov. JB Pritzker tells Dana Bash that President Biden is handling Trump’s legal issues “perfectly”: “He is talking about Trump. He’s just talking about all of the other things about Donald Trump.”

  • Commentary: Freedom to read is freedom to think. It’s time for NJ lawmakers to protect both

    History teaches that book banning has consequences, the author notes.

  • House’s Ukraine, Israel aid package gains Biden’s support

    WASHINGTON >> President Joe Biden said today he strongly supports a proposal from Republican House Speaker Mike Johnson to provide aid to Ukraine, Israel and Taiwan, sending crucial bipartisan support to the effort this week to approve $95 billion in funding for the U.S. allies.