Month: June 2023

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The number of people killed after days of clashes between Senegalese police and supporters of opposition leader Ousmane Sonko has risen to 15, including two security officers, the government said on Saturday. Clashes continued in pockets of the city on Friday evening with protesters throwing stones, burning cars and damaging supermarkets as police fired tear gas and the government deployed the military in tanks. Senegalese gendarmes stand on a street corner in Grand Dakar, a working-class neighborhood in the Senegalese capital, on June 1, 2023 to counter-protest during political unrest. SEYLLOU via Getty Images Sonko was convicted on Thursday of…

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Eight Republican presidential candidates are in Iowa on Saturday for a political event hosted by U.S. Sen. Joni Ernst. Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis and former Vice President Mike Pence are among those scheduled to speak at a rally at the state fairgrounds near Des Moines. Former President Donald Trump, the leading GOP presidential candidate, will be notably absent. He has largely avoided any event that would see him share the stage with his 2024 rivals. DeSantis, seen as Trump’s main challenger, has been on a blitz of campaign stops in early voting states, including Iowa,…

President Biden signed the debt ceiling bill into law on Saturday days ahead of a default deadline set by the Treasury Department. >> Read more trending news The White House announced Saturday that Biden signed the legislation privately at the White House, it said The Associated Press. The bill passed the House of Representatives on Wednesday and the Senate on Thursday night. The bill restricts spending for two years and suspends the debt ceiling until January 2025. It also changes requirements for older Americans receiving food assistance and gives the go-ahead for an Appalachian natural gas pipeline. THE P reported…

The four children were found unresponsive off the coast of Portneuf-sur-Mer, Que. The provincial police (SQ) have confirmed Saturday’s death. The children, aged more than 10, were part of a group of 11 people swept away by the tide overnight while fishing in Quebec’s northern coastal region. One person, a man in his 30s, is still missing as of 1.30pm on Saturday, while six others were rescued in the early hours of the morning. “According to initial reports, a group of people were fishing on foot along the shore when they were caught in the tide,” SQ Sergeant Catherine Bernard…

Two people are dead after a plane crashed near Tupelo Regional Airport in Mississippi this morning, officials said. Tupelo Fire Department Sergeant Michael Moody confirmed the deaths to CBS News. The identities of the people killed have not been shared. It is not clear what type of plane he was flying or how many people were on board. More information will be shared this afternoon, Moody said. Charles Johnson, an eyewitness to the accident, said CBS News affiliate WCBI that he and his wife were driving along a nearby road when he saw the plane “going very hard” and “saw…

After four months of investigation, House Republicans who vowed to use their new majority to uncover evidence of wrongdoing by President Biden acknowledged Wednesday that they had yet to uncover incriminating material about him, despite their frequent insinuations that he and his family have been involved in it. criminal conduct and corruption. In a highly publicized news conference on Capitol Hill to show preliminary findings of their main investigation into Mr. Biden and his family, top Republicans released financial documents detailing how some of the president’s relatives received more than $10 million of dollars from foreign sources between 2015 and…

Every 10 years after the census, the New Hampshire legislature redraws the state’s political districts. So when the Republicans captured the majority in the 2020 election, it was no secret that they would draw the new maps in their favor. But how far the party went is now before the state Supreme Court. “These maps represent a systematic, intentional and deliberate effort to lock a group of party voters out of the political process,” Jonathan Hawley, an attorney representing a group of Democratic voters, told the justices during oral arguments Thursday. The legislature, represented in the case by the New…