Month: June 2023

Actress Alicia Silverstone on Wednesday endorsed the 2024 Democratic nominee and Biden’s main challenger, Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., even as she admitted she has been disappointed in the Democratic Party. “Last year, I canceled my Democratic Party registration and registered as an independent voter,” Silverstone wrote on Instagram. “Like many others, I am deeply disappointed with the political leadership at every turn.” The “Clueless” star said she was tired of “the division, the lies, [and] exploitation at the expense of people and public health”. Alicia Silverstone supported Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. for 2024 and said she was “deeply disappointed” in…

A prominent Labor Party donor has joined the Just Stop Oil protests outside the House of Commons. Dale Vince, the founder of green energy company Ecotricity, was part of the slow walk down Whitehall to Trafalgar Square. Vince’s association with the climate protest group has already given Sir Keir Starmer headaches. According to the Sky News Westminster Accounts project, Ecotricity has given £860,000 to Labor since the 2019 election, as well as £20,000 to Sir Keir and £10,000 to Labour’s deputy leader Angela Rayner. Mr Vince’s donations to the party over the past decade total around £1.5m Speaking during the…

Gun violence is a real and serious problem that raises real and serious questions. In a country with more than 300 million people and even more guns than those in circulation, there is no single, easy solution to the problem. There are several different and overlapping factors that fuel the problem of gun violence. Ease of access to guns (including illegal guns) is one, but there are also complicated issues like mental health and perennial problems like gang violence and domestic violence. Delving into this very real and truly troubling issue, Governor Gavin Newsom, who on Thursday called for a…

WASHINGTON (AP) – The Senate confirmed Dilawar Syed as deputy administrator of the Small Business Administration on Thursday, ending more than two years of delays after a Republican gridlock in the last Congress. Syed will be the highest-ranking Muslim official in the US government. Republicans on the Small Business Committee had blocked his nomination, citing the agency’s payments to abortion providers and other reasons. President Joe Biden had first nominated the Pakistan-born businessman to the post in March 2021, and renominated him this year in the new Congress. Syed was upheld 54-42 Sen. Ben Cardin, a Maryland Democrat who chairs…

Last week, police were searching the remote Barragem do Arade reservoir in Portugal’s Algarve, about 35 miles from where the three-year-old boy disappeared in 2007 while on a family vacation in Praia da Luz. 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 Soil from a Portugal reservoir searched by police last month is reportedly being compared to samples from prime suspect Christian Brueckner’s camper van. Detectives believe Brueckner visited the remote Barragem do Arade reservoir in Portugal’s Algarve region days after…

Pat Robertson, a religious broadcaster who turned a small station in Virginia into the global Christian Broadcasting Network (CBN) and helped make religion a centerpiece of Republican Party politics in the United States through his Christian Coalition , died. He was 93 years old. Robertson’s death was announced by his broadcaster on Thursday. No cause was given. Robertson’s companies also included Regent University, an evangelical Christian school in Virginia Beach; the American Center for Law and Justice, which defends the religious rights of Christians; and Operation Blessing, an international humanitarian organization. He also tried to run for president. For more…

Experts: Mammograms should start at age 40 Why experts say mammograms should start at age 40 04:42 “Charmed” and “Beverly Hills, 90210” actor Shannen Doherty said on Instagram Tuesday that her breast cancer, first diagnosed in 2015, has spread to her brain. The news was shared with a emotional video of Doherty, 52, crying as she underwent radiation. The process involves patients wearing a custom-made mask that holds their head still during treatment so the lasers can hit the tumor as precisely as possible. “On Jan. 5, my CT scan showed Mets in my brain,” Doherty said. “…On January 12th…

WASHINGTON (AP) – The Supreme Court on Thursday he issued a surprise 5-4 ruling in favor of black voters in an Alabama congressional redistricting case, with two conservative justices joining liberals in rejecting a Republican-led effort to weaken a landmark voting rights law. Chief Justice John Roberts and Justice Brett Kavanaugh joined the court’s liberals in affirming a lower court ruling that found a probable violation of the Voting Rights Act in a congressional map of Alabama with a black majority seat of seven congressional districts in a state where more than one in four residents are black. Now the…