Month: June 2023

Plans to introduce bilingual road signs in New Zealand have become a political battleground as arguments over racial politics become increasingly important in the country’s election race. Last week, New Zealand opened a public consultation on plans to create bilingual road signs in English and te reo Māori, the indigenous language of Aotearoa. Transport agency Waka Kotahi said the signs were “an opportunity for te reo Māori to be seen in our communities and support language learning and revitalization” and that “making te reo Māori part of our daily lives promotes cultural understanding and social cohesion.” Bilingual road signs are…

Ukraine: Destroyed Soviet-era dam near the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant 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 Ukrainian troops witnessed Russian soldiers being swept away by floodwaters after the Nova Khakovka dam burst, a military official in the Ukrainian armed forces said, adding that many Russian troops were killed or be injured as a result of the collapse of the dam. Many Russian soldiers were also seen fleeing the east bank of the Dnipro River, Capt. Andrei Pidlisnyi told CNN….

After what can only be described as a disastrous 2022 election cycle for the Michigan GOP, which lost both the state House, Senate and all three races at the top of the ticket, the outlook for 2024 looked gloomy; the GOP donor class demonstrated that it was not interested in funding the current state-run regime. He was not impressed with the selection of candidates during the last election cycle. Rick Snyder ran Michigan in the pre-Trump years. He is the antithesis of a MAGA Republican and has made his displeasure clear. Now Snyder, along with businessman and philanthropist William Parfet,…

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. – The leader of a group trying to challenge a massive overhaul of Arkansas’ education system says she’s not playing politics with students’ futures. A petition to leave the fate of the Arkansas LEARNS Act in the hands of voters is one step closer to being on the November 2024 ballot after Attorney General Tim Griffin approved the ballot language on Monday, 5 june State Supreme Court Receives First Briefings on Suspension of Arkansas LEARNS Act Veronica McClane, the president of Citizens For Arkansas Public Education and Students (CAPES), says her group’s efforts are not about party…

Editor’s note: A version of this article first appeared in the “Reliable Sources” newsletter. Sign up for the daily summary explaining the evolution of the media landscape here. CNN — Tucker Carlson is back, sort of. Nearly a month after promising to return to right-wing commentary via Elon Musk’s Twitter show, the fired Fox News anchor made good on his promise Tuesday evening, posting a 10-minute monologue on the platform of social networks. The comment, which appeared next to a “Tucker on Twitter” logo in the corner of the screen, had the same style viewers have come to expect from…

Relatives are deeply concerned that the political prisoners detained in Kyaiksakaw Prison, located in Daik-U Township, Bago Region, have not been returned to the prison until today. A relative of a political prisoner reported that there was a prison break at Taungoo Prison last week. Following the incident, political prisoners from various prisons were summoned to the Military Council camp in their respective municipalities to be examined and investigated. “On May 25, several political prisoners were forcibly removed from Kyaiksakaw Prison. One of them, named Ko Thant Zin Win, died tragically after being tortured at the Pyin Pongyi Military Council…

Toledo police arrested a 16- and 17-year-old boy early Tuesday after officers took them out of an east Toledo home. TOLEDO, Ohio – A Toledo teenager allegedly pointed a gun at a police officer who confronted a pair of suspects inside a vacant home in east Toledo Tuesday morning. Toledo Police arrested a 16- and 17-year-old after they left the house on Magyar Street shortly before 1:30 am. Officers were called to the home after reports that someone had broken windows and entered the home. When police arrived and checked the perimeter, an officer spotted a suspect looking through the…

WASHINGTON (AP) – Federal prosecutors are using a grand jury in Florida as part of their investigation into the possible mishandling of classified documents at former President Donald Trump’s Palm Beach estate, a person familiar with the matter. The grand jury joins a separate panel that has been meeting in Washington for months to consider charges against Trump for withholding hundreds of classified documents at Mar-a-Lago and potentially obstructing government efforts to recover the records It is unclear why prosecutors are using an additional grand jury, which was described to The Associated Press by a person who spoke on condition…