• Russia still a threat to Finland, Supo says

    Funnelling people to the eastern border is Russia's way of bullying Finland, according to the Finnish Security and Intelligence Service.

  • Paris Mayor says will not attend COP29 in Baku

    Paris Mayor Anne Hidalgo will not attend the United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP29) in Baku to denounce the Azerbaijani regime guilty of the ethnic cleansing of Armeniens of Artsakh in September 2023. She made the statement at the annual dinner of the Coordinating Council of Armenian Organizations in France (CCAF) on Wednesday, Jean-Christophe Buisson, Deputy Director of Le Figaro …

  • DC Mayor Says 'Don't Be So Down on DC' After Murder Spike

    Muriel Bowser, the Democratic mayor of Washington, D.C., on Monday dismissed questions about the district’s rising crime rates and property slump, telling Axios not to be "so down on D.C.."

  • Baltimore Leader Says Conservatives "Should Be Afraid" For Calling Him The "DEI Mayor"

    Baltimore Leader Says Conservatives "Should Be Afraid" For Calling Him The "DEI Mayor" Authored by Paul Joseph Watson via Modernity.news, Baltimore leader Brandon Scott appeared on Joy Reid’s MSNBC show to assert that white conservatives “should be afraid” of the consequences of calling him the ‘DEI Mayor’ and that his “purpose in life” was to make them uncomfortable. Yes, really. Professional race-bator Reid angrily asserted that when right-wingers make fun of DEI, they...

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    Ecuador’s youngest mayor shot dead, police say

    Ecuador’s youngest mayor, 27-year-old Brigitte García, was found shot dead Sunday morning, the country’s national police said. In a statement posted on X, police said that García, the mayor of San Vicente, a small coastal city, was in what is believed to be a rental car along with her communications director, Jairo Loor, who was also killed from a gunshot wound. Preliminary investigations suggest the shots were fired from inside the car, police said. Further investigations are underway, police...

  • Maersk Says Red Sea Still Too Risky to Justify Return

    Danish shipping giant Maersk says it will continue to divert its containerships around the Cape of Good Hope due to the continued risk of Houthi attacks in the Red Sea.

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    Judge says Progreso mayor is a danger to the community, should remain in jail

    BROWNSVILLE, TEXAS (ValleyCentral) — Progreso Mayor Gerardo “Jerry” Alanis is a danger to the community, a judge ruled Thursday, and should remain in jail until the drug charges against him are resolved. During a hearing on Thursday afternoon, a federal agent testified that Jerry Alanis participated in a scheme to store drugs at Dorothy Thompson []

  • Sam Rainsy says West can still influence Cambodia

    But the opposition leader says US efforts to play friendly with Phnom Penh are based on an ‘illusion.’

  • Pete Rose says he'd be ‘scot-free' if he had an interpreter like Shohei Ohtani

    Pete Rose is betting he would have been off the hook from punishment for gambling on baseball if he had an interpreter when he was playing and managing in Major League Baseball.

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    Goldman Sachs analysts say there’s still potential for more stock gains

    By Nicole Goodkind, CNN New York (CNN) — It’s been a bumpy road for the stock market this year, but investors aren’t complaining. That’s because markets have rallied to new highs and have already soared past analysts’ 2024 estimates. The S&P 500 has surged more than 10% since January, and last week it surpassed Goldman

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    UD fans react to March Madness loss, say they are still proud

    DAYTON, Ohio (WDTN) -- Flyer fans have been fired up about the team advancing through March Madness, however, the road to the championship has come to an end. But fans say regardless, they are always going to stick by the Flyers. In their first appearance since 2017, the UD Flyers nearly pulled off another comeback, []

  • Susan Sarandon says a lot of Harvey Weinstein's enablers are still in Hollywood

    In 2024, the results of the #MeToo movement are a mixed bag. There were positive changes, particularly in that a decades-long culture of silence was disrupted. But in the years since, Time’s Up has fallen apart and what true accountability looks like is still often a subject of debate. No wonder, then, that Susan Sarandon—one of Hollywood’s most outspoken activists—thinks the entertainment industry still has more work to do. Sarandon’s comments at ’90s Con came after Mira Sorvino reflected on...