Fierce fighting is taking place around the Ukrainian town of Vovchansk as Kyiv’s troops seek to isolate Russian units that have advanced across the nearby border. Heavy combat is underway at an aggregate plant on the northern edge of Vovchansk, according to military bloggers on both sides of the conflict. One Ukrainian squad commander, Stanislav Buniatov, known as Osman, described the situation ...
Raw sewage, swarms of flies and mosquitoes, garbage piled high in the streets. As the heat of summer gathers, hundreds of thousands of people in Gaza are contending with a crisis in sanitation. “The municipalities are not working, and waste in large piles is on our doorsteps and on the roads,” he said. “We are seeing large quantities of flying ...
Two employees of a pre-trial detention center in the southern Russian city of Rostov-on-Don have been rescued after they were held hostage by six detainees in the facility for several hours on Sunday morning, according to Russian state media. The Federal Penitentiary Service of Russia in the Rostov region said the detainees were “eliminated” and the employees who were held were released without any injury, state news agency RIA ...
Former U.N. ambassador Nikki Haley posted an online tribute on Sunday to her father, who she said died on Father’s Day. “This morning I had to say goodbye to the smartest, sweetest, kindest, most decent man I have ever known,” Haley wrote on X. “He taught his kids the importance of faith, hard work, and grace.” The social media post ...
President Biden and former president Barack Obama, along with first lady Jill Biden and a host of A-list Hollywood celebrities, gravely warned about the threat and unprecedented nature of a potential second Donald Trump term in a star-studded fundraiser on Saturday that the Biden campaign said raised more than $30 million. In a discussion moderated by late-night host Jimmy Kimmel ...
DETROIT — Presumptive Republican nominee Donald Trump repeated his characterization of Black communities as dangerous and depressed on Saturday, courting voters in a city he has called “hell” and “totally corrupt” as his campaign hopes incremental gains with Black voters could be decisive in swing states. “Look, the crime is most rampant right here and in African American communities,” Trump ...
This spring, 24-year-old Eve Levenson returned to her alma mater, George Washington University, as the national youth engagement director for President Biden’s campaign. She was uncertain how she would be received. Levenson was worried that protesters might interrupt the political networking event she was keynoting, according to the then–president of the GW College Democrats. Anytime she visits a campus, Levenson ...
Liberals have been united in their anger against Supreme Court Justice Samuel A. Alito Jr. following revelations that they say raise questions about the jurist’s ability to rule impartially on a pair of high-profile Jan. 6-related cases. But what to do about the controversies is another matter. The headline-grabbing accounts of politically charged flags at Alito’s homes and a secret ...
Year in and year out, Congress finds a way to boost salaries for most hard-working employees of the federal government. The House approved a Pentagon policy bill Friday that included a proposed 19.5 percent pay raise for junior members of the military. Earlier this year a massive spending bill allowed federal judges to receive raises worth at least $11,000, setting ...
The Biden campaign raised $28 million ahead of a star-studded fundraiser in Los Angeles headlined by actors George Clooney, Julia Roberts, Jimmy Kimmel and former president Barack Obama, a campaign official said Saturday. The massive haul — which surpasses the more than $25 million the campaign said it raised during a March fundraiser at New York’s Radio City Music Hall ...