news2shortsFor the foreseeable future, international courts provide the only realistic prospect of justice for Syrians There are few regimes as cruel as the Syrian government of Bashar al-Assad. There was seemingly no limit to what it would do to sustain his grasp on power, including dropping chemical weapons and barrel bombs on civilians in territory … Read more
The US constitution protects incompetence. But don’t underestimate the self-destructive power of the president’s own hubris Tyrants come to a sticky end, or so history suggests. Richard III and Coriolanus made bloody exits. More recently, Saddam Hussein went to the gallows, Slobodan Milosevic went to jail, Bashar al-Assad went into exile. Libya’s Muammar Gaddafi was … Read more
The White House Correspondents’ Dinner continued this year without President Trump or a comedian in attendance. This year, several journalists were honored with awards and White House Correspondent Association President Eugene Daniels spoke about the press saying, “we are not the enemy of the people.”
The stripped-down festivities at the White House Correspondents’ Association’s annual dinner were a reflection of the somber tone in Washington at the beginning of President Donald Trump’s second term.
Law enforcement authorities say they have a man in custody in Washington related to the theft of Secretary Kristi Noem’s purse last weekend.
US president says after meeting that maybe Vladimir Putin ‘doesn’t want to stop the war’; Trump’s US polling figures slide – key US politics stories from Saturday 26 April at a glance Donald Trump spent his Saturday at the Vatican, attending the funeral of Pope Francis along with his wife Melania and leaders from more … Read more
US president tasks secretary of state Marco Rubio with making ‘immediate’ progress Donald Trump has demanded free transit for American commercial and military ships through the Panama and Suez canals, tasking his secretary of state with making progress “immediately”. Trump has for months been calling for the United States to take control of the Panama … Read more
The 23-year-old joins Denver after five seasons in Florida Crawshaw is one of five Australian punters in NFL draft Jeremy Crawshaw is set to join the ranks of Australian punters in the NFL after being drafted by the Denver Broncos. The 23-year-old from Emu Plains in Sydney’s west was the first punter taken in the … Read more
Las Vegas Review-Journal, owned by billionaire Miriam Adelson, condemns pardon of ex-lawmaker Michele Fiore A Nevada newspaper owned by a Donald Trump mega-donor has savaged the US president’s decision to pardon a Republican councilwoman who was convicted of using donations intended to fund a statue of a police officer to pay for cosmetic surgery. The … Read more
US president’s epiphany that Putin may not want to stop Ukraine war follows ‘symbolic’ talk with Zelenskyy in St Peter’s Basilica It was a fitting moment for an epiphany, if that’s what this was. Donald Trump sat in the morning light in St Peter’s Basilica hunched over in conversation with Volodymyr Zelenskyy, as the assembled … Read more
