Eight Chinese migrants have been found dead on the coast of southern Mexico, authorities said, after their boat capsized along a popular but perilous route for illegally entering the United States. The bodies of the seven women and one man were discovered Friday on a beach in San Francisco del Mar, Oaxaca, the state’s prosecutor’s office said in a statement. Treacherous boat rides ...
A mayoral candidate has been assassinated and three others injured in a shooting in the Mexican city of Celaya, in the latest violence to mar the run-up to the country’s looming general election. Bertha Gisela Gaytán, a mayoral candidate for Celaya, died on Monday after being shot while campaigning in the community of San Miguel Octopan, the Guanajuato state prosecutor’s ...
Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has vowed to shut down news network Al Jazeera following the passage Monday of a sweeping law allowing the government to ban foreign networks perceived as posing a threat to national security. Netanyahu said he intended “to act immediately in accordance with the new law” to stop the Qatari-based news outlet’s activity in the country, according to ...
Former President Trump vowed to create a ‘Christian Visibility Day’ following President Biden’s declaration of ‘Transgender Day of Visibility,’ which happened to land on Easter Sunday this year. ‘And what the h— was Biden thinking when he declared Easter Sunday to be trans visibility day?’ Trump asked his supporters during a campaign rally in Green Bay, Wisconsin, on Tuesday. ‘Such ...
Comedy. Culture. Art. Literature. The great Scottish enlightenment. A historic role in the Reformation of the Church. All attributes listed on tourist brochures of Scotland. But as from this week, Scotland’s new law will crack down on the free speech that enabled all of this to flourish in the land in which William Wallace fought for ‘freedom.’ On April 1, our ...
Editor’s note: The following is an exclusively adapted excerpt from Cliff Sims’s ‘The Darkness Has Not Overcome: Lessons on Faith & Politics from Inside the Halls of Power.’ The Office of the Director of National Intelligence just sparked outrage by publishing an op-ed by a current intelligence officer claiming his experience as a crossdresser somehow makes him better at his job. Blowback over ...
Rep. Rashida Tlaib, D-Mich., is accusing Israel of killing seven humanitarian aid workers from World Central Kitchen (WCK) in Gaza on purpose. ‘The Israeli government knew that humanitarian workers were in this vehicle,’ Tlaib wrote on her Instagram Story on Tuesday morning. Alongside the text, she shared a video of a badly damaged car with a massive hole in its ...
Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.’s running mate, Nicole Shanahan, presents several areas of appeal to key constituencies for both President Biden and former President Trump, as Democrats and Republicans look to stave off Kennedy’s campaign for president. ‘Shanahan is an unknown quantity,’ said Kevin Madden, former senior adviser to Utah Sen. Mitt Romney’s presidential campaigns in 2008 and 2012. ‘If she ...
Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., said in a local radio interview Monday that he is putting ‘the main part of my focus in the coming years’ on opposing Russia in Ukraine, noting that it is ‘a worldwide problem for democracies.’ Though he will not seek a Senate leadership role again, McConnell told NewsRadio 840 WHAS host Terry Meiners that he ...
Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., declared that he’s committed to opposing Russia’s invasion of Ukraine for the remainder of his term, and House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., has pitched a novel approach to continue funding the war effort — but Republican holdouts in both chambers may still derail the efforts of leadership to secure a new aid package. ‘We’re ...
Tesla on Tuesday published its first-quarter vehicle production and deliveries report for 2024 that showed deliveries fell 8.5% from the year-ago quarter and about 20% from the fourth quarter. Here are the key numbers: Vehicle production declined 1.7% year over year and 12.5% sequentially for Tesla. Shares dropped about 6.5%. Tesla doesn’t break out sales by model but reported that it produced 412,376 ...
Venezuela is battling a record number of wildfires, according to data released on Monday, as a climate change-driven drought plagues the Amazon rainforest region. Satellites registered more than 30,200 fire points in Venezuela from January to March, the highest level for that period since records started in 1999, according to Brazil’s Inpe research agency, which monitors all of South America. That includes ...