South Koreans vote Wednesday in a hotly contested parliamentary election that's largely seen as a referendum on conservative President Yoon Suk Yeol and a possible sign of a deepening domestic divide. Regardless of the results, Yoon will stay in power and his major foreign policy agenda will likely continue. But
Gen. Omar Bradley is often credited with the saying, “Amateurs talk strategy. Professionals talk logistics.” The Biden administration does neither.
The RFU will charge the highest price ever for a standalone England Test. Most expensive standard ticket for recent Six Nations home matches was £194. Cheapest ticket for All Blacks match will be £99 for an adult and £35 for a child
The 58 men who are honoured on the war memorial in Cockenzie deserve their prominent position in a lovingly tended garden in the heart of the village and the council MUST reinstate the flower beds it removed
Hollywood star Michael Douglas said playing Benjamin Franklin when the Founding Father was 70 is giving him hope that 81-year-old President Joe Biden isn't too old to serve another term.
After the Chicago police shooting of Dexter Reed, the left seems to have found its next George Floyd. Reed, a 26-year-old black man, was pulled over by police officers for not wearing a seatbelt. After the stop escalated into an altercation where he pulled a weapon and fired on police officers, one cop was injured and Reed sustained fatal injuries. “I think that the mainstream media is trying to turn this into, like, the new George Floyd,” Sara Gonzales says before reviewing the body cam...
The future of funding for Ukraine and Israel might be determined by these upcoming primaries
The U.S. and Israel have been raising the alarm of a possible Iranian retaliatory strike in response to last week’s Israeli attack on an Iranian diplomatic facility in Damascus. The president once again pledged “ironclad” U.S. support for Israel in the event of an Iranian response, and the head of Central Command, Gen. Erik Kurilla, was reportedly headed to Israel Thursday to coordinate with Israeli leaders ahead of the expected strike. The administration is moving in the wrong direction. The...
The Purpose Of War According To George Orwell (1984) Some food for thought from George Orwell's '1984' Does anything really ever change? (emphasis ours) The primary aim of modern warfare is to use up the products of the machine without raising the general standard of living. Ever since the end of the nineteenth century, the problem of what to do with the surplus of consumption goods has been latent in industrial society. From the moment when the machine first made its...
Miners of bitcoin will soon face a halving of the reward for operating the most popular cryptocurrency, in a pivotal event that is a test of survival, industry commentators say.The halving, held every four years and next due this month, exposes the weakest mining companies and individuals because it slashes their main source of income, according to experts.Bitcoin is created as a reward when computers solve complex puzzles to decide which miner wins the privilege to validate the block and...
President Joe Biden faces a new challenge in Ohio as the Democratic National Convention may take place too late for the incumbent president to appear on the general election ballot in the state.In a letter obtained and reviewed by Newsweek, Ohio Secretary of State Frank LaRose's legal counsel wants clarification for an apparent conflict in Ohio law between the Democratic National Committee's (DNC) nominating process and the deadline by which the state must certify the party's presidential...
President Joe Biden on Wednesday mischaracterized the circumstances of his uncle's death during World War II as he lambasted former President Donald Trump's comments about the military. "He got shot down in New Guinea, and they never found the body because there used to be — there were a lot of cannibals, for real, in that part of New Guinea," Biden said during his remarks invoking his uncle Ambrose J. Finnegan. However, U.S. military records about Finnegan's death do not mention the aircraft's...