Iran’s presidential election is expected to head to a second round after none of the candidates managed to secure more than 50% in Friday’s vote, according to the spokesperson of the election committee, Mohsen Eslami. A runoff vote is expected to take place on July 5 between the candidates with the most votes – Masoud Pezeshkian, a reformist lawmaker and former ...
Diego Cardeñosa has loved sharks ever since he was a child. The Colombia native was never afraid of them when he visited his beloved beach. Instead, he was fascinated with how sharks move through water using their multiple fins. It’s no surprise he became a marine biologist. “As soon as I realized they were going through a conservation crisis, I wanted ...
Dozens of sick and injured children, including 20 cancer patients, have been evacuated from Gaza through the Kerem Shalom crossing, the first to leave since Israel launched its offensive in Rafah last month. The 68 were transferred to Cairo, Egypt, on Thursday, Israeli authorities say. COGAT, the Israeli agency responsible for approving aid into Gaza, coordinated the passage along with ...
Federal prosecutors improperly charged a Jan. 6 defendant with obstruction, the Supreme Court ruled on Friday, a decision that will likely upend many cases against rioters who disrupted the certification of the 2020 presidential election and one which Donald Trump’s legal team may use to try to whittle down one of his criminal cases. After the Jan. 6, 2021, attack ...
The Supreme Court on Friday ruled that cities may ban homeless residents from sleeping outside, rejecting a constitutional challenge to a set of anti-camping laws in a decision that will have a sweeping impact on how local officials address the nation’s escalating housing crisis. In a 6-3 decision, which broke along ideological lines, the court’s conservative majority said that regulations ...
In the moments after President Biden’s halting debate performance Thursday, Vice President Harris went on a pair of television networks to praise him. She spent Friday crisscrossing the western United States, challenging those who worried he seemed old and ineffective. And she took to social media on his behalf. “In a real leader, character matters more than style, and Donald ...
The victory lap began before the debate was over. Donald Trump’s aides had prepared for him to face the fiery President Biden who showed up to the State of the Union earlier this year. Instead, the former president faced a shaky opponent whose stumbles sent Democrats into a full-blown panic — and Trump largely held back from interrupting to let ...
The New York Times editorial board on Friday called on President Biden to abandon his reelection campaign after his widely criticized performance in the first 2024 debate against former president Donald Trump. The editorial board described Biden as appearing to be “the shadow of a great public servant” in the debate, during which he repeatedly misspoke and struggled to complete ...
In the banquet hall of an Atlanta-area gun store, Republicans cheered as President Biden stumbled at times and halted through some answers in Thursday’s debate. At one point, organizers of the Cobb County Republican gathering turned on closed captioning to better understand what he was saying, and they laughed when former president Donald Trump said he couldn’t understand Biden either. ...
The Supreme Court on Friday turned aside Stephen K. Bannon’s last bid to delay his July 1 deadline to report to prison, leaving the Donald Trump political strategist and right-wing podcaster facing a court order to turn himself in to a low-security federal prison while he appeals his contempt of Congress conviction. The high court’s rejection came in a one-sentence ...