01/25/202525 January 2025 US Senate to vote on Pete Hegseth as next Defense Secretary The US Senate will confirm Pete Hegseth as the next Defense Secretary on Friday. Hegseth is accused of drinking heavily. He has said that if he becomes in charge of the Pentagon, he will stop drinking alcohol. The vote will take … Read more
The US government consists of three branches designed to keep each other in check, with Congress responsible for passing laws. But presidents do have some power to unilaterally direct government policy using executive orders. Source link
Hungary Prime Minister Victor Orban is demanding reopening of the pipeline carrying Russian gas through Ukraine in exchange for his support for the expansion of the European Union sanctions on Russia. Since the full -scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, the European Union has imposed 15 round of economic sanctions on Moscow, but the … Read more
Days after the winter storm caused snow and record-breaking snowfall, cleanup efforts were underway Thursday in several major Southern U.S. cities such as New Orleans, Louisiana, where crews were removing snow in the same manner they did after Mardi. Garbage, drink cups and plastic beads were removed. Grass Festival. Temperatures were slowly rising across the … Read more
They are very close, but their goal is inaccessible. This is the situation for many migrants on the Mexican side of the border with the United States. A woman, who asked to be anonymous for fear for her safety, told DW that she left her home in southern Mexico as the criminals tried to kidnap … Read more
Washington – Ahead of Belarus’ presidential election this weekend, a media advocacy group filed a complaint with the International Criminal Court on Friday, accusing the country’s longtime leader of crimes against humanity against journalists. The complaint filed by Reporters Without Borders, known by the French acronym RSF, accused President Lukashenko of a harsh crackdown on … Read more
US President Donald Trump traveled to North Carolina and will travel to California on Friday to meet with people affected by the hurricane and wildfires. The trips are Trump’s first outside Washington, DC since taking office for his second term as president. Trump criticizes Biden administration’s policies and fire response Trump has harshly criticized California … Read more
London – A London judge on Friday dismissed the US mother’s challenge to be extradited in Colorado to face allegations of murder in the death of two of his young children. Judge John Zani said in the Westminster Magistrate Court that it would now be with the British Home Secretary that Kimberly Singer returned to … Read more
Before the development of the first poliovirus vaccine in 1955, poliomyelitis paralyzed half a million people each year. By 2000, mass vaccination campaigns, equipped with new types of oral polio vaccines, had virtually eradicated wild poliovirus, except in a few isolated areas. In 2020, the entire African region was declared free of wild poliovirus, leaving … Read more
Near the walls of the Aushwitz, the former house of the concentration camp Rudolf Hos stands as a symbol of refusal and collusion, its windows look at the site of some of the worst atrocities of the holocaust. As the world is celebrating the 80th anniversary of Aushwitz’s liberation (27 January), work is underway to … Read more