Month: May 2023

A fight broke out at a political party campaign event for Minneapolis City Council candidates on Saturday, leading to a call to the police and injuries after the brawl sparked by heated disagreements over nominations. MINNEAPOLIS — A fight broke out at a political party campaign event for Minneapolis City Council candidates on Saturday, leading to a call to the police and injuries after the brawl sparked by heated disagreements over nominations. At least one person was taken to a hospital for non-life-threatening injuries and another was treated at the scene of the Democratic-Farmer-Labor endorsement convention for Minneapolis Ward 10,…

A right-wing faction of the Israel Bar Association seeking to change the political direction of the bar announced its formation on Sunday ahead of the organization’s elections. The new faction of the Zionist Legal Initiative said the current makeup of the Bar made it part of the “long arm of [political] opposition”. Referring to the ongoing judicial reforms, the faction said the Bar was working against democratic values ​​and the results of the last elections. “The upcoming elections for the head of the Bar are among the most important in its history. The impact this event will have goes beyond…

California’s Democratic governor, Gavin Newsom, is trying to get out of a political bind when it comes to slavery reparations proposed by his own task force. Fox News Digital was the first to report Tuesday evening that Newsom, after months of complete silence on the matter, refused to endorse the cash payments, which could be as high as $1.2 million for a single recipient. recommended by its reparations task force, arguing that dealing with the legacy of slavery “is about much more than cash payments.” “It will take absurd mental gymnastics to require California taxpayers, including new immigrants, low-income workers…

Ananya Shah will always remember May 3, 2023. That’s when she visited the White House and took a photo with Vice President Kamala Harris. “It was just stunning,” he said. “I felt very grateful and I felt very grateful for all the opportunities I had to get to this point in my life. It was really cool.” The Centennial High senior was honored during the White House Forum on Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders for her work with The Very Asian Foundation, which started the May Book Project. The goal is to get more Asian American books and literature into…

Tehran is unhappy with how its recent security pact with Baghdad is being implemented. Tehran, Iran – Iran’s foreign ministry has summoned the Iraqi ambassador to Tehran to “strongly protest” the continued presence of groups it says carry out “terrorist” activities. The envoy was summoned on Saturday to face Tehran’s ire over “an invitation to members of secessionist groups for an official event” and “the continued movements of some terrorist groups” in Iraq’s Kurdish region, media affiliated with the state. Although the groups were not named, the reference appeared to be to Kurdish armed groups, including the Kurdistan Democratic Party…

Brawl breaks out at Minneapolis DFL endorsement convention Brawl breaks out at Minneapolis DFL endorsement convention 00:59 MINNEAPOLIS — The DFL Party is apologizing after a fight broke out at the Ward 10 endorsement convention Saturday afternoon in Minneapolis. According to the Minneapolis Police Department, officers arrived at the Ella Baker Center shortly after 2pm to a large crowd and heard reports of people fighting, but say they did not observe any physical altercation. A video shows the fight breaking out as councilwoman Aisha Chughtai takes the stage. The convention was immediately postponed due to security concerns. In a statement…

Breaking news live: Hello and welcome to the live news blog. Please follow this space for all breaking news and latest developments in India and around the world. Delhi-NCR is likely to be partly cloudy on Sunday: According to the India Meteorological Department (IMD), the maximum temperature in Delhi on Saturday was 41.8 degrees Celsius, two degrees above the season’s average. According to the report, the minimum temperature in the city was 22 degrees Celsius, three degrees below normal. For Sunday, the weather service is forecasting partly cloudy skies with a chance of dust storms or thunderstorms in the afternoon…

Why wait for the morning edition when you can write the news in the light? In the early 20th century, newspapers struggled to find faster ways than print to relay breaking news, especially on presidential election nights. None was as famous as the New York Times Motograph, an electric billboard 368 feet long. Better known as “zipper”, came to life on November 6, 1928to inform the crowd in Times Square that Herbert Hoover had defeated Governor Alfred E. Smith of New York. Five-foot-tall words made up of 14,800 light bulbs moved endlessly around the sign, wrapped like a ribbon above…