Month: June 2023

CNN — Republican presidential candidate Nikki Haley participated in a CNN town hall in Iowa on Sunday. While the former South Carolina governor correctly cited a variety of facts and figures, not everything he said was accurate. Haley falsely claimed, as she has done before, that crime is at an all time high. While talking about Covid-19, he falsely claimed that all the drugs on pharmacy shelves are made in China. He also exaggerated the amount of unspent Covid-19 relief money. Here is a verification of these and other claims made by the former US ambassador to the United Nations….

NEW DELHI (AP) — U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin on Monday spoke of an improved partnership with India, a major arms buyer, as both countries grapple with rising economic China and rising belligerence, officials said. Austin met with Indian Defense Minister Rajnath Singh, and both sides emphasized technology partnerships such as defense, clean energy and space. India is working to boost its domestic defense industry by acquiring technology and reducing dependence on imports, particularly from Russia, its biggest supplier of military hardware despite the ongoing war in Ukraine. “I am returning to India to meet with key leaders to discuss…

ARGYLE, N.Y. (AP) – Seth Jacobs has about 100 containers full of marijuana flowers stored on his farm in upstate New York. And that’s a problem. Not enough places to sell it. The 700 pounds (318 kilograms) of pungent flower were harvested last year as part of New York’s first legal pot harvest for recreational use. It also has approximately 220 pounds (100 kilograms) of distillate. Months later, there are only a dozen dispensaries statewide licensed to sell what Jacobs and more than 200 other farmers produced. Now, another growing season is underway and farmers who are still sitting on…

There are too many politicians who are protagonists. When there is a conflict, as there often is, between appearing to solve problems and actually helping to solve those problems, politicians can almost always be counted on to put appearance over substance. Unfortunately, politicians succumb to this bias even when their theatrics make real problems worse. Consider French President Emmanuel Macron’s conceit that his government banned many flights between cities less than 2.5 hours apart by rail. Nothing is more fashionable today than climate theater, sometimes at the expense of realistic and useful policies. Macron obviously relishes the opportunity to pose…

Breaking news, Real Madrid already have a replacement for Karim Benzema Real Madrid shocked the world by announcing the departure of Karim Benzema of the club The Frenchman ends a 14-year spell with the team, during which time he became the club’s all-time winningest player, as well as second all-time top scorer. Without a doubt, this footballer is a legend of the white house. president Florentino Perez he doesn’t want to spend a lot of money in the upcoming transfer market because he will be looking to sign Erling Haaland or Kylian Mbappé in 2024. Coach Charles Ancelotti he wants…

Former President Donald Trump sits at the defense table with his legal team in a Manhattan courtroom, Tuesday, April 4, 2023, in New York. (AP Photo – Seth Wenig) NEW YORK: Within hours of his landmark appearance this spring, Donald Trump leveled his anger at the judge, complaining that he is “a judge who hates Trump” with a family full of “Trump haters.” On Friday, the former president’s lawyers doubled down on those criticisms, demanding that Judge Juan Manuel Merchan recuse himself from his criminal case in New York City over what they say is anti-Trump bias and a conflict…

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Hong Kong police have arrested dozens of people accused of “breaching the public peace”, including a woman carrying a bouquet of flowers and a man holding a candle, during a crackdown on the anniversary commemorations of the spill of blood in Beijing’s Tiananmen Square. Restrictions in Hong Kong have drowned out what were once the biggest vigils to mark the anniversary of Chinese troops’ bloody crackdown on pro-democracy protesters, leaving cities including Taipei, London, New York and Berlin to keep alive the memory of June 4, 1989. . Near Victoria Park on Sunday night, the previous site of the annual…