news2shortsFrom the local sports team to local businesses, Saginaw is intimately intertwined with its northern neighbor There are few entities that embody the close, fraternal ties between the US and Canada quite like the Saginaw Spirit junior ice hockey team. In a place whose fortunes have been more down than up in recent decades, the … Read more
Zinc Nacional will move ‘most polluting’ operations after joint investigation found heavy-metals pollution in area Revealed: US hazardous waste is sent to Mexico – where a ‘toxic cocktail’ of pollution emerges A factory processing US hazardous waste in Mexico has promised to relocate what authorities call its “most polluting” operations following a Guardian investigation. The … Read more
U.S. Senate candidate Mallory McMorrow told a Michigan crowd last month that gender-inclusive language was pushed by the Democratic Party’s “more progressive groups,” despite including “inclusive language” in her constituent newsletters as recently as November. McMorrow, a Michigan state senator, said at the Michigan Democratic Party Rural Summit on April 12 that she “got some … Read more
Ryan started out a small-town pharmacist but wound up running one of the country’s largest states. Along the way, the tough-on-crime Republican experienced a conversion on the death penalty and won international praise by halting executions as governor and, eventually, emptying death row.
President Donald Trump appears to have his eye on a new gig after being back in the Oval Office for just over 100 days. On Friday, the president posted an AI-generated image of himself as the pope on Truth Social, and it has gone viral. Less than a week prior to the post, Trump was … Read more
Mohsen Mahdawi, student detained by Ice last month, pens blistering attack on Trump’s deportation policies Mohsen Mahdawi, the Palestinian green-card holder and Columbia University student freed on Wednesday after more than two weeks in immigration detention, has issued a stark warning about the US’s descent into authoritarianism. “Once the repression of dissent, in the name … Read more
When an irresistible force (Saudi Arabia’s boxing program) met an immovable object (the New York Police Department), the immovable object prevailed On 2 May, Turki al-Sheikh (chairman of the Saudi Arabian General Entertainment Authority and the architect of his country’s Riyadh Season boxing program) planted a flag in Times Square with a fight card styled … Read more
Championship leader Oscar Piastri finishes second Kimi Antonelli drops to 10th after claiming historic pole Lando Norris took advantage in a dramatic sprint race in tricky, changeable conditions at the Miami Grand Prix to claim victory from his McLaren teammate Oscar Piastri, with Lewis Hamilton enjoying a well-timed strategy call by his Ferrari team to … Read more
Far-right German party was labeled a ‘confirmed rightwing extremist group’ by country’s domestic intelligence service Germany’s foreign ministry has hit back at the US secretary of state, Marco Rubio, following his criticism of Germany’s decision to label the far-right Alternative für Deutschland party as a “confirmed rightwing extremist group”. On Thursday, Rubio took to X … Read more
Billionaire shocked audience of investors with disclosure and said his vice-chair, Greg Abel, should take over Warren Buffett, the billionaire investor and philanthropist, has announced his intention to retire at the end of this year. He is 94 years old. Buffett, the fifth richest person in the world, shocked an arena full of shareholders on … Read more
