Month: May 2023

G7 summit: Zelensky and Fumio Kishida lay wreaths at Peace Memorial Park in Hiroshima For free real-time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox, sign up for our breaking news emails Sign up to our free emails for breaking news Ukraine has denied Russian claims that it captured Bakhmut. Russian President Vladimir Putin has congratulated his troops after the Wagner Group claimed its mercenaries seized the key battleground town in eastern Ukraine on Saturday afternoon. Kiev has denied that the city has been captured. There was confusion on Sunday morning amid reports that Volodymyr Zelensky appeared to confirm that…

Comment on this storycomment The pace of American political news is increasingly driven by investigations, subpoenas, indictments, trials and verdicts. This resource a “The law” is deviating from normal politicsand one result is that former federal prosecutors, who tell us more and more current tent guests on cable television. The trend has underlined the temptation of the prosecution to cross self-justice. Federal law enforcers seem to get a thrill out of finding new ways to prosecute politically unsavory people who have misbehaved, even when their behavior wasn’t clearly illegal. The good news is that the Supreme Court is bucking this…

Three high-profile wins by progressive candidates in last week’s Democratic primary marked a shift in the Allegheny County party that has been in the works for years, political observers say. In recent years, progressive candidates have increased the county’s representation of women in elected office and broken barriers by bringing Pittsburgh its first black mayor, Ed Gainey, and Pennsylvania’s first black woman in Congress, U.S. Rep. United Summer Lee of Swissvale. Then, on Tuesday, three progressive candidates defeated more moderate opponents in hotly contested Democratic primary races. State Rep. Sara Innamorato won a six-seat race for Allegheny County executive, Chief…

LONDON (AP) – Irish nationalist party Sinn Fein made big gains in Northern Ireland’s local elections, repeating its success in last year’s assembly elections, when it first became the biggest party. After counting was completed on Saturday afternoon, Sinn Fein, which seeks the unification of Northern Ireland with the Republic of Ireland, held 144 of the 462 local government seats. Its main rival, the Democratic Unionist Party, won 122 seats, while the centrist Alliance Party won 67. Michelle O’Neill, deputy leader of Sinn Fein, said the results were “thrilling”. He added that his party’s success was a message to voters…

Hhave you seen the video that Rishi Sunak posted last month wish Stockton Town FC luck in the Northern Premier League final? Warning: don’t watch if you expect to vote Conservative in the next election or you won’t be able to. I’ts horrible. I don’t understand how he could be so inept as to record it, or why someone watching it wouldn’t delete it unless they were working directly for Keir Starmer. The problem is not the words he says. It’s unlikely he had anything to do with the script, which is clear from the way he presents it. This…

PALISADES PARK – About two dozen residents rallied outside Borough Hall in the rain Saturday afternoon demanding reforms to the police department after a scathing report detailed a host of problems including political interference, unfair practices of promotion and low morale. He carries signs that say “No politics to the police!” and “Wake up Palisades Park!” the coalition of Korean, Latino and white residents said it wanted reforms at all levels of the department that has long been one of the most troubled forces in Bergen County. The protest was prompted by a report this month from the Bergen County…

We may have reached the pinnacle of bipartisan journalism with some coverage outside of Maryland, where Gov. Wes Moore signed a package of new gun control bills this week by restricting who can carry guns in public and where they can do so. Supreme Court conservatives created a constitutional right to carry guns outside the home last summer when they struck down a 110-year-old New York gun law, a decision that also functionally eliminated parts of Maryland’s legal regime on weapons Moore and his allies in the Legislature are trying to prevent their jurisdiction from becoming another gun anarchy state…

Tthe episode is called “America Decides”. But fans of HBO’s widely-watched satire Succession won’t have been surprised to see the sons of the eminently unsavory Roy dynasty show little respect for who Americans elect as president when it clashes with the financial and political interests of the family It’s also no secret that Succession’s story of a domineering father and the grisly rivalries of his offspring draws heavily on Rupert Murdoch’s family, his media empire and his ugliest creation, Fox News. In Succession, Fox News surrogate ATN declares the likely loser, Republican neo-fascist Jeryd Mencken, as the winner of a…