Archaeologists have discovered a secret tomb at the Treasury monument in Petra, Jordan – one of the Seven Wonders of the World. A long-buried tomb containing the remains of 12 ancient skeletons and grave offerings were found beneath the monument after research teams used remote sensing technology. The discovery comes more than two decades after similar tombs were found on ...
The new COVID variant XEC has been found by UK health experts as they prepare for winter, when cases tend to increase. The UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA) has highlighted a slight increase in hospitalisations amid COVID patients recently, with the admission rate at 4.5 per 100,000 people in the week to 6 October, up from 3.7 a week prior. ...
The Trump campaign and the Biden administration do not often agree, but they do appear to have at least one new area of overlap: Both say they are at work on proposals for a U.S. sovereign wealth fund, an investment fund owned and operated by the government. It would not be an obvious policy choice. Around the world, such funds ...
A Georgia judge ruled this week that state law does not give county officials discretion to withhold certification of election results, a defeat for allies of former president Donald Trump who sought to empower local leaders to hold up the outcome of the vote. Fulton County Superior Court Judge Robert McBurney ruled Monday that certification of election results is a ...
Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz (D) made headlines last week by echoing a common refrain from members of his party, particularly over the past decade. “I think all of us know the electoral college needs to go,” Vice President Kamala Harris’s running mate said at an event in California. Instead, he added, “we need a national popular vote.” In short order, ...
Donald Trump’s town-hall-style campaign event in Pennsylvania on Monday understandably attracted more attention for its conclusion than for its contents. But the actual question-and-answer period did provide useful insights that should not be overlooked. One of the questions posed to Trump — apparently prescreened by the campaign — came from a Black woman standing behind him on the stage. Reading ...
Vice President Kamala Harris’s campaign Tuesday rejected claims that she and a co-author had plagiarized a handful of passages in a 2009 book on fighting crime, arguing that the allegations amounted to a partisan attempt to weaponize a 15-year-old work. The claims arose this week when Christopher Rufo, a conservative activist, listed five instances in the book, “Smart on Crime: ...
Donald Trump went online after midnight Tuesday to brag about acing cognitive exams he never released and his cholesterol, then misleadingly called Vice President Kamala Harris’s allergies a “dangerous situation.” By midday he was meandering through an interview in which he would not directly say whether he would allow a peaceful transfer of power after the election and later complained ...
Looking to shore up her support with the critical demographic of Black men, Kamala Harris charged during a town hall Tuesday night that Donald Trump had no plans to help them and exhorted those voters not to be fooled by Trump or anyone who would “take you out of the game by not voting.” “The solutions that we all want ...
Billionaire Elon Musk gave nearly $75 million to the political action committee he created to campaign for Donald Trump, marking his latest contribution in support of the former president in the final stretch of the campaign. America PAC has emerged as a significant player in Trump’s reelection bid, with the committee launching this spring with early support from wealthy donors, ...