Month: May 2023

The summit underscores the region’s leftward shift and is expected to emphasize cooperation on issues such as finance and crime. Leaders and representatives of 12 South American countries gathered in Brazil for a summit on Tuesday as President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva tries to revive the regional bloc formerly known as the Union of South American Nations, or UNASUR. President Lula is expected to promote greater regional integration at the summit, held in the capital Brasília. “We let ideology divide us and interrupt our efforts to integrate. We abandoned our dialogue channels and our cooperation mechanisms, and we all…

CNN — [Breaking news update, published at 12:17 p.m. ET] Two people may still be inside a six-story apartment building that partially collapsed Sunday afternoon in Iowa, Davenport’s mayor said midday Tuesday, while three other people also remain missing as rescue efforts continue. continue to hour 36. “This is an active incident that is very fluid and constantly evolving,” Davenport Mayor Mike Matson said during a press conference as search efforts continued. A ninth person, Lisa Brooks, was pulled alive from the rubble Monday, Matson confirmed, after city officials announced that demolition plans were expected to move forward. They seem…

Rep. Warren Davidson (R-Ohio) announced Tuesday that he will not run for the Senate in 2024 and will instead seek re-election to his House seat, narrowing the potential field to face Sen. Sherrod Brown (D- Ohio) next year. Davidson, a member of the House Freedom Caucus, revealed his decision in a memo to supporters, saying a Senate run would prevent him from doing his job in the lower house effectively. He added that he was “really tempted” to run for the Senate. “Running for the Senate would effectively take me out of the House fray for 1.5 years to spend…

The best way of life is to serve others, and those in political power must also see themselves as servants, Pope Francis said. “However, we well know how difficult this is, and how the commonest temptation, in all ages and even in the best political systems, is to serve authority” rather than to use one’s own authority to serve those others, he said. “How easy it is to rise to a pedestal and how difficult it is to descend to the service of others!” the pope said during a ceremony at the Vatican on May 29 to award the Paul…

Related video: Race for Trump Sign up for the daily Inside Washington email to receive exclusive US coverage and analysis delivered to your inbox Get our free Inside Washington email Donald Trump ally Laura Loomer has sparked outrage over comments in which she described Casey DeSantis’ battle with cancer as “overblown.” Ms Loomer, a far-right anti-Muslim activist who ran twice unsuccessfully for Congress and was kicked off Twitter in 2018 for “hateful conduct”, said Florida Governor Ron DeSantis had exaggerated the his wife’s battle with cancer in a desperate attempt to woo voters. The Trump loyalist called for the release…

More than 20 years ago, Supreme Court Justice David Souter sought to warn that big money in politics risked turning US officials into tools of an emerging “plutocracy.” We now know from recently released case records that Souter had to pronounce the language in his draft Supreme Court opinion in a 2000 campaign finance case, Nixon v. Missouri Gov. Shrink PAC, as the price to secure the vote of Justice Sandra Day O’Connor. That’s a shame, because Souter’s warning is one that America’s political leaders, including the justices of the Supreme Court itself, needed to hear. This warning was never…

In October 2020, two rival candidates for office in Utah ran an unusual TV ad together. Incumbent Republican Gov. Spencer Cox and Democratic challenger Chris Peterson appeared at the same venue to note that both were “dedicated to the American values ​​of freedom, democracy and justice for all people,” as he said Cox, and that “our shared values ​​transcend our political differences,” as Peterson said. However, these guarantees are unusual and may be overwhelmed by other messages. In fact, a new study co-authored by an MIT scholar finds that American citizens likely overestimate the extent to which their political opponents…

Uganda’s president signed a sweeping anti-gay bill that includes the death penalty on Monday, prompting calls from human rights activists and politicians around the world to repeal the law. What’s in Uganda’s new anti-gay law? The Anti-Homosexuality Act is “among the toughest anti-LGBTQ laws in the world”. BBC News denounced, with life sentences for those who maintain homosexual relations. Even people suspected of so-called “attempted homosexuality” could be sentenced to up to 10 years in prison. Meanwhile, the law also prohibits the “promotion of homosexuality” and “targets individuals deemed to be collaborators in homosexuality.” axes. The law also calls for…