Month: June 2023

BREAKING NEWS: Aaron Mooy announces SHOCK retirement aged just 32, as Socceroos hero rides high after leading Celtic to Treble. Aaron Mooy has retired from professional football Mooy, 32, led Celtic to the Treble last season He also represented Australia at the World Cup in Qatar By Ollie Lewis for Daily Mail Australia Published: 02:56 EDT, June 30, 2023 | Updated: 03:39 EDT, June 30, 2023 Socceroos midfielder Aaron Mooy has retired from international and club football with immediate effect, bringing his decorated career to an end. Mooy, 32, won 57 caps and scored seven goals for Australia between 2012…

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., faced an onslaught of criticism Thursday after she gave her take on the Supreme Court’s affirmative action ruling and suggested the high court isn’t taking it seriously his “ridiculous ‘color blindness’ allegations” or else, he would have “abolished” legacy admissions. “If SCOTUS took their ridiculous ‘colorblindness’ claims seriously, they would have abolished legacy admissions, also affirmative action for the privileged,” Ocasio-Cortez wrote in a tweet. The “Squad” Democrat went on to point out that “70% of Harvard’s legacy applicants are white” and that the Supreme Court “didn’t touch that, which would have hurt them and their…

CNN — The influential network associated with conservative billionaire Charles Koch has raised more than $70 million for political races, the group announced Thursday, as it prepares to help shape the outcome of next year’s contests and encourage Republican voters to avoid the former president. Donald Trump in the fight for the White House nomination. Americans for Prosperity Action has pledged to support a single candidate in the GOP presidential primary for the first time in its history. He has yet to announce who he will endorse, but the group could dramatically reshape the Republican field by deploying its vast…

The State Department placed President Biden’s Iran envoy, Robert Malley, on unpaid leave on Thursday amid a review of his security clearance. “I have been informed that my security clearance is under review,” said Mr. Malley in an email. “I have not been given any further information, but I hope the investigation will be resolved favorably and soon. In the meantime I am on leave.” The Department of State confirmed that Mr. Malley was on leave, but did not provide further details. axes i CNN had previously reported that the security clearance of Mr. Malley. Mr. Malley, a longtime diplomat…

LANSING (WWJ) – Jonathan Byrd, a former Labor Union leader and prominent figure in Michigan politics, has been charged with criminal sexual conduct. Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel announced Thursday that Byrd was charged with fourth-degree CSC for an incident at a party in April 2022. Byrd, 40, of Battle Creek, had been “a prominent figure in Michigan politics and lobbying government on behalf of his employer, the Michigan Labor District Council of the Laborers International Union of America North or LiUNA,” according to Nessel. office According to the AG’s office, Byrd allegedly “forcefully moved the victim’s hand to his…

Former Ohio House Speaker Larry Householder was sentenced this week to 20 years in federal prison. Negotiations continued on the state budget, and the US Supreme Court handed down two important decisions as it closed its calendar. We break down what it all means on this week’s episode of Ohio Politics Explained. A podcast from the USA TODAY Network’s Ohio Bureau that gets you up to speed on the state’s political news in 15 minutes or less. This week, host Anna Staver joined state bureau chief Anthony Shoemaker. Maximum sentence for Larry Householder Nearly three years after his arrest, Householder…

Voice of OC won the highest recognition from the nation’s top press clubs earlier this month at the annual OC Press Club Awards at Anaheim Hills Country Club. The newsroom’s swift response last year to the collapse of the Anaheim Angel Stadium sale in the wake of scathing FBI affidavits about dealings with the city earned first-place recognition in four major categories along with the region’s biggest media outlets, including the David McQuay Award for Best Columnist. Best news and best political news. The newsroom’s Hosam Elattar won the county’s Best Religion Story award for his engaging look at the…

CNN — The Conservatives, despite their limited federal elected power, scored another major victory in the great political battle of the early 21st century. The Supreme Court’s elimination of affirmative action in college admissions on Thursday toppled another pillar of America’s liberal social infrastructure. Democrats have had their share of successes over the past 20 years, including earlier this month with decisions ordering the redrawing of Alabama’s congressional map and rejecting an election law theory backed by Trump, but it often seems that the conservatives had the momentum. Republicans only control one house of Congress, and by a narrow margin,…