Month: June 2023

On the last day of the constitutional convention in September 1787, a lady asked Benjamin Franklin “Well, doctor, what do we have a republic or a monarchy?” “A republic” Franklin replied, “if you can keep it.” Those are words that come to mind when I watch members of both houses of Congress go about their business in a way that makes you wonder if they have the best interests of this republic in mind. This was the case during the recent annual debt limit crises. A deal was announced shortly thereafter between President Kevin McCarthy and President Joe Biden, members…

WASHINGTON (AP) – President Joe Biden welcomes Prime Minister Rishi Sunak for wide-ranging talks Thursday as the British leader makes his first visit to the White House as prime minister. The leaders’ Oval Office talks are expected to cover the war in Ukraine, China, economic security, international cooperation to regulate the growing field of artificial intelligence and more. Biden and Sunak have already had four face-to-face meetings since Sunak became prime minister in October, but the talks in Washington will provide the two leaders with an opportunity for their most sustained interaction yet. White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said…

Robert HanssenA former FBI agent who was one of the most damaging spies in American history was found dead in his prison cell Monday morning, according to the Bureau of Prisons. Hanssen, 79, was arrested in 2001 and pleaded guilty to selling highly classified material to the Soviet Union and later to Russia. He was serving a life sentence at the federal penitentiary in Florence, Colorado. Robert Hanssen F.B.I Hanssen was found unresponsive and staff immediately began life-saving measures, Bureau of Prisons spokeswoman Kristie Breshears said in a statement. “Staff called for emergency medical services and life-saving efforts continued,” Breshears…

BOSTON – The Boston Police Department is investigating a car crash involving Mayor Michelle Wu on Tuesday, according to city officials. Video obtained by Boston 25 News shows a police cruiser with its lights on, carrying the mayor trying to turn left onto Hyde Park Ave. The video shows that the lights on Hyde Park Avenue are green and the mayor’s driver pulls off to the left of Blakemore. St. You can see in the video at least one vehicle pull over as Wu’s vehicle exits the intersection. A second vehicle traveling on Hyde Park Ave then collided with Wu’s…

NEW YORK (AP) – After a trio of new announcements this week, the Republican Party’s 2024 presidential field is almost set. A handful of challengers may enter later, but now there are at least 10 high-profile Republican candidates officially seeking their party’s nomination. And with the announcement phase of the primary campaign largely over, several major Republican candidates will gather in North Carolina this weekend to begin a more aggressive qualifying period. It will be a long road to the GOP national convention in Milwaukee next summer when Republican delegates from across the country gather to finalize their nominee to…

WASHINGTON (AP) – President Joe Biden welcomes Prime Minister Rishi Sunak for wide-ranging talks Thursday as the British leader makes his first visit to the White House as prime minister. The leaders’ Oval Office talks are expected to cover the war in Ukraine, China, economic security, international cooperation to regulate the growing field of artificial intelligence and more. Biden and Sunak have already had four face-to-face meetings since Sunak became prime minister in October, but the talks in Washington will provide the two leaders with an opportunity for their most sustained interaction yet. White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said…

Protesters acting against repressive regimes face a particular problem: the tools they use to organize demonstrations can also be deployed to repress their actions. For example, when citizens communicate on the Internet to plan a protest, a ruling regime can access this information and be prepared to break up the demonstration. so what What happens next, according to MIT political scientist Mai Hassan, is that protesters can engage in “coordinated discoordination,” as she calls it, finding ways to quickly create new demonstrations, sidestep security forces, and keep movements active social, even in face. of the regimes that work to stop…

A federal judge temporarily blocked parts of a new Florida law on Tuesday that bans transgender teenagers from puberty blockers, arguing that “gender identity is real.” On his Judgment of 44 pages, U.S. District Judge Robert L. Hinkle issued a preliminary injunction that focuses on three transgender children whose parents requested immediate relief from the ban. The ruling states that the minors, two aged 11 and one aged 8, can continue to receive treatment with gonadotropin-releasing hormone agonists, known as “puberty blockers” or cross-sex hormones. Addressing what he called “the elephant in the room,” Hinkle countered the defendants’ insinuations and…