More than 100 prisoners have escaped from a medium security prison in Nigeria after heavy rainfall destroyed part of the facility, the Nigerian Correctional Service (NCS) said in a press release on Thursday. A total of 118 inmates of the Medium Security Custodial Centres in Suleja, Niger state, fled the prison on Wednesday night, though 10 of the escaped inmates ...
Haiti’s Prime Minister Ariel Henry announced his resignation on Thursday, handing power over to a transitional council that will seek to gain control of the violence-ravaged nation. Henry wrote in his resignation letter dated Wednesday that, “given the current state of affairs,” the time was right for him to step down. “We have served the nation in difficult times. I ...
Flooding in Tanzania has killed 155 people and left at least 236 injured, the country’s Prime Minister Kassim Majaliwa said on Thursday. More than 10,000 houses have been damaged and upwards of 200,000 people have been affected, Majaliwa told the Tanzanian parliament in the capital Dodoma. The prime minister added that “the heavy El Nino rains, accompanied by strong winds ...
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Last week, investors were spooked by geopolitical tensions and expectations of interest rates remaining higher for longer. The fear sent investors selling equities, resulting in the broader indexes breaking below their upward trendlines. This week, the market looked like it could be bouncing, and many investors wondered if it would bounce back. So is this a good time to pick ...
A group of Pennsylvania state legislators have taken their fight for the right to sue President Biden over his election executive order (EO) to the Supreme Court. A group of 27 state lawmakers are asking the high court to give them standing in a case challenging Biden’s March 2021 Executive Order 14019 on ‘promoting access to voting,’ after a lower court ...
A Jewish Democrat in the House called out Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., after he claimed it was a ‘dark day’ following the passage of a foreign aid package that included billions of dollars for U.S. ally Israel, which is embroiled in a war with terrorist group Hamas in Gaza. Rep. Jared Moskowitz, D-Fla., took to X this week to scrutinize ...
Top Democrats are pouncing on House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., after he gave an impassioned speech condemning the anti-Israel protests on Columbia University’s campus. ‘Why would I ever listen to a man that thinks he should have more say over my body than I do? NEXT,’ Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., wrote on X under a photo of Johnson at Columbia. ...
Most American voters have little confidence that President Biden possesses the physical and mental fitness required to serve another term in the White House, while a similar majority is concerned that former President Trump would not act ethically if elected, according to a new poll. The Pew Research Center survey released on Wednesday shows that most American voters do not ...
An attorney for former President Donald Trump in the presidential immunity hearing clashed with Supreme Court Justice Elena Kagan over a hypothetical question on whether a president who ‘ordered’ a ‘coup’ could be prosecuted. ‘If it’s an official act, there needs to be impeachment and conviction beforehand,’ Trump’s attorney John Sauer argued Thursday before the Supreme Court, which is being ...
SCOTUS sees ‘dangerous precedent’ in Trump immunity case if presidents can prosecute rivals: experts
After a marathon debate over whether former President Trump should be granted presidential immunity for crimes alleged by Special Counsel Jack Smith, legal experts tell Fox News Digital that most of the Supreme Court justices appear concerned with how the ruling will impact the future functioning of the executive branch. In nearly three hours of debate on Thursday, the high ...
Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito on Thursday asked Justice Department attorneys whether presidents would have to fear prosecution by a ‘bitter political opponent’ if justices reject former President Trump’s immunity claims. The Supreme Court heard arguments on the issue of presidential immunity, which could set a precedent for whether former presidents have ‘absolute immunity’ from criminal prosecution. Justice Samuel ...