Month: June 2023

Suleman Dawood, the 19-year-old who died on the Titan submersible along with his father and three others, had brought a Rubik’s Cube on the trip hoping to break a world record, his mother said. Suleman had applied to Guinness World Records before the mission to view the wreckage of the Titanic and had been “so excited” to try to solve the puzzle 3,700 meters under the ocean, said his mother, Christine Dawood , on the British network. BBC news. His father, Shahzada Dawood, had even brought a camera to document the record-breaking moment, he said. The comments came as the…

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A National Guard soldier stands by as Texas Governor Greg Abbott walks the US-Mexico border in the … [+] Rio Grande River in Eagle Pass, Texas, May 23, 2022. – A federal judge in Louisiana on Friday blocked the Biden administration from ending Title 42, a pandemic-related border restriction that allows the immediate deportation of asylum seekers and other migrants. (Photo by Allison Dinner / AFP) (Photo by ALLISON DINNER / AFP via Getty Images) AFP via Getty Images The history of the Mexican-American War should serve as a cautionary tale for right-wing American politicians who fearmonger about the border…

As the June 30 deadline for state budgets approaches, tensions are running high on Capitol Hill. After a week off, the Republican-controlled Senate returned on June 20 to work on the budget and pass spending bills. Negotiations have led to some progress and senators are working toward a resolution to the disagreements, according to Kate Flessner, a spokeswoman for the Senate Republican Caucus. “Discussions continue to take place as we work to complete a budget that is in the best interest of the taxpayer. The Senate Republican Caucus is committed to ensuring that the budget for the next fiscal year…

Rishi Sunak admitted that the UK is “behind other countries” in some areas of healthcare and said there is “work to be done” to improve the NHS. It was suggested to the Prime Minister that the NHS was heading in the wrong direction following the publication of today’s report by the King’s Fund (see post below at 10.04). He replied: “Well, one of my top five priorities is to cut NHS waiting lists. That’s why we’ve put record sums into the NHS since I became Prime Minister, with record numbers of doctors, nurses and new ways of doing the things…

Jacksonville, Fl – Floridians are expected to travel in record numbers for Independence Day, according to AAA. The agency predicts that more than 2.8 million Floridians will make at least one trip of 50 miles or more between Friday, June 30 and Tuesday, July 4. That’s 87,000 more holiday travelers than the previous record, set last year. Nationally, an estimated 50.7 million Americans will travel over the holiday weekend. That’s almost 2.1 million more travelers than last year’s holiday and almost 1.8 million more than the previous high, set back in 2019. “Independence Day weekend looks to be a continuation…

Greg Young considers himself a moderate conservative, not a Republican. However, the 59-year-old accountant from South Lebanon Township said he has voted “consistently” for more than 40 years. “I signed up as soon as I could,” he said. “One of my best memories as a kid with a May birthday was being able to register and vote.” Young first voted as a teenage Reaganite, but soon drifted away from the GOP during the Clinton years as he “changed from moderate to most people.” Now he finds himself reluctantly pulling the same voter registration stunts every year to run in the…

Former President Bill Clinton and former Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan hosted the latest in the Frank and Kula Kumpuris Distinguished Lecture Series at the Statehouse Convention Center in Little Rock on Sunday, where they discussed the polarization of American politics, the importance of bipartisanship and finding a middle ground. Clinton, who was president from 1993 to 2001, was also governor of Arkansas from 1979 to 1981, and then from 1983 to 1992. Hogan, a Republican, became governor of Democratic-leaning Maryland in 2015 on a platform of fiscal responsibility and left office in 2023 after guiding his state through the covid-19…