Month: May 2023

Sign up for the daily Inside Washington email to get exclusive US coverage and analysis delivered to your inbox Get our free Inside Washington email Former Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi made his first public statements since being hospitalized a month ago, delivering a video address to his Forza Italia political party on Saturday. Berlusconi, who appeared in the video sitting at a desk set up inside the hospital and flanked by Italian and EU flags, received a standing ovation from the party congress in Milan. The 86-year-old three-time former prime minister and media mogul noted it was the first…

NEW YORK (AP) — Tracking down accurate information about the Philadelphia election on Twitter used to be easy. The city commissioners’ account running the election, @phillyvotes, was the only one with a blue checkmark, a sign of authenticity. But since the social media platform overhauled its verification service last month, the verification mark has disappeared. This has made it harder to distinguish @phillyvotes from a list of random accounts not managed by the elections office but with very similar names. The electoral commission applied weeks ago for a gray verification mark, Twitter’s new symbol to help users identify official government…

JAMESTOWN, NY — The National Comedy Center, the nation’s official museum and cultural institution dedicated to comedy, announced today that comedians Gabriel “Fluffy” Iglesias and Taylor Tomlinson will headline the 2023 Lucille Ball Comedy Festival, Dec. 2-6 August Tickets for these shows, along with the festival’s many other comedy events, including the festival’s annual and popular Stand-Up Showcase, will go on sale in advance to National Comedy Center members only, starting on Friday, May 12 at noon until Wednesday. May 17 at www.ComedyCenter.org. The public sale date will begin on Friday, May 19 at noon. Lucy’s Late Night Comedy Shows…

London – Queen Camilla was once described as the most hated woman in Britain. In the 1990s, it was blamed for the breakup of the current…King Charles IIIthe marriage with the late Princess Diana. “I mean Camilla was … just inundated by paparazzi, who were quite hostile, and she went through their dust bins, their rubbish bins,” he said. the future queenThe old friend of, reporter Petronella Wyatt, previously told CBS News The coronation of Charles and Camilla on May 6 ceremony “It was a very unpleasant moment.” Things have changed significantly since then, Wyatt said. But there is still…

“You talk about something that completely turns your life upside down,” he recalled. “Imagine being my dad with five kids, I was the youngest of five, he basically sat down with us and said you know, we’re going to get through this, we’re going to be fine.” He also noted that the family’s Catholic faith helped them recover from their loss. “It was very important,” he said. “I knew it when I was 40 [my dad] said to [one of his friends] if I didn’t have my Catholic faith, I don’t know how I would have gotten through it, so…

President Joe Biden will visit the Hudson Valley and New York City next week, the White House told Spectrum News 1 Friday evening. In the Hudson Valley, the president will discuss the ongoing debt ceiling impasse in Congress on Wednesday, arguing that lawmakers should avoid an immediate default without conditions. Biden also plans to make comments against the American Default Act, which Republicans in the House of Representatives passed two weeks ago. The president has invited the four congressional leaders to meet at the White House on Tuesday, a day before he comes to New York, amid concerns of a…

In a politically sane town, Cyn Wang would be embraced by the local Democratic Party. It could even be promoted in campaign ads. The daughter of Chinese immigrants, she married a woman from Mexico who just received her green card last week. She serves on the entertainment commission that promotes nightlife, helps run her family’s small insurance business, sends her daughter to her neighborhood public school, and worked in the Obama administration as diplomat in the foreign service. She is a registered Democrat and has been active in Democratic politics since high school. He voted for Senator Elizabeth Warren in…

CNN — At least eight of the Republican “fake voters” in Georgia have accepted immunity deals in an ongoing criminal investigation into efforts by Donald Trump and his allies to overturn the 2020 election there. according to a new court document. Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis had previously notified the 16 fake GOP voters in Georgia that they were targets of her investigation. Last month, Willis offered immunity deals to several of the Republicans who served as pro-Trump voters and they accepted, according to the filing. The new contributors secured could provide insight into a key point in Willis’…