12 jurors seated in Trump hush money trial as more alternates sought Jury selection in Donald Trump’s hush money trial in New York is continuing Thursday. Twelve jurors and six alternates need to be seated for the trial. 04/18/2024 - 1:30 am | View Link
Sun/FOX45/UB poll: Lagging support for Biden, Trump underscores lack of enthusiasm A new poll for The Baltimore Sun, the University of Baltimore and FOX45 finds three out of every four Democrats and Republicans in Maryland support their party’s presumptive nominee for ... 04/18/2024 - 1:00 am | View Link
As Civil Rights Era Fades From Memory, Generation Gap Divides Black Voters For years, Loretta Green has voted at her Southwest Atlanta precinct wearing the same custom T-shirt emblazoned with a photo of her first voter registration card, dated to 1960. The front of it reads: ... 04/18/2024 - 12:42 am | View Link
The dead line While so many New Jersey politicians have suddenly come out against the line that’s sustained machine politics in this state for decades, Gottheimer has firmly backed the system, even as its future ... 04/17/2024 - 11:55 pm | View Link
Early Voting begins! Early Voting is from April 9 to May 6 at Eagle Park (1749 State Road 46 E). Early voting opened on April 9 at Eagle Park in Nashville. County Clerk Pearletta Banks told the Democrat that the first few ... 04/16/2024 - 5:04 am | View Link
The U. S. blocked on Thursday a draft resolution that would have allowed the United Nations General Assembly to vote on allowing a Palestinian state to become a full member state of the U. N. The move has triggered backlash from other states and pro-Palestinian groups, as global divisions continue to sharpen over Israel’s war on Gaza.
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Apple Inc. said that it removed Meta Platforms Inc.’s WhatsApp and Threads from its China apps store after an order from the country’s internet regulator, which said the services pose risks to the country’s security.
The order comes on the heels of a cleanup program Chinese regulators initiated in 2023 that was expected to remove many defunct or unregistered apps from domestic iOS and Android stores.
Israel launched a retaliatory strike against a site in Iran late Thursday night (early Friday morning local time), U. S. officials confirmed to several media outlets, though an Iranian official has downplayed the attack as a “failed and humiliating” drone strike.
ABC News, CBS News, NPR, and others have cited unnamed U.
New York police removed a pro-Palestinian protest encampment at Columbia University on Thursday and arrested more than 100 demonstrators, including the daughter of a prominent Minnesota congresswoman.
Several students involved in the protest said they also were suspended from Columbia and Barnard College, including Isra Hirsi, who is the daughter of Democratic U.
BUENOS AIRES, Argentina — Argentina formally requested on Thursday to join NATO as a global partner, a status that would clear the way for greater political and security cooperation at a time when the right-wing government of President Javier Milei aims to boost ties with Western powers and attract investment.
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The request came as NATO’s Deputy General Secretary Mircea Geoana held talks in Brussels on regional security challenges with visiting Argentine Defense Minister Luis Petri.
Geoana said he welcomed Argentina’s bid to become an accredited partner in the alliance—a valued role short of “ally” for nations that are not in NATO’s geographical area and not required to take part in collective military actions.
A Covid-19 patient with a weakened immune system incubated a highly mutated novel strain over 613 days before succumbing to an underlying illness, researchers in the Netherlands found.
The patient, a 72-year-old man with a blood disorder, failed to mount a strong immune response to multiple Covid shots before catching the omicron variant in February 2022.