GOP senators outraged over ‘shocking breakdown’ related to Defense Sec Lloyd Austin’s secret hospitalization

U.S. Sen. Tom Cotton, R-Arkansas, said Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin needs to explain why the White House and senior officials weren’t immediately notified that he’d been hospitalized earlier this week until days later, amid a complex time as the Biden administration deals with a slew of national security matters abroad.  Austin was admitted to … Read more

Warriors’ Draymond Green reinstated by NBA from suspension after 12 games

Warriors forward reinstated by NBA from open-ended banGreen has been away from Golden State since 12 December Draymond Green was reinstated by the NBA from his suspension on Saturday after the Golden State star missed 12 games for hitting Phoenix center Jusuf Nurkić in the face on 12 December. The league said Green “demonstrated his … Read more

‘The fullness of life’: preserving a historic Black neighborhood in Brooklyn

Conservationists are energized by rightwing attacks on African American studies to preserve once prosperous Weeksville Conservationists in New York are ramping up research and preservation efforts of a historic Black community that had all but disappeared, illuminating what some experts say is an “antidote” to ongoing rightwing efforts to keep African American studies out of … Read more

Sarah Huckabee Sanders makes a splash in Arkansas – can she climb higher?

The Republican governor and ex-Trump press chief seems to be popular with voters in her state. Does a national run beckon? Shortly after taking office in January, Arkansas governor Sarah Huckabee Sanders launched a powerful salvo in the so-called war on woke being waged by Republicans. Sanders, 41, signed an executive order targeting critical race … Read more

From Gaza to Ukraine, brute force threatens to triumph in 2024

Assassinations, atrocities and invasions, along with uncertain US leadership, presage a year of rising violence Assassination is a two-edged sword. Last week’s targeted killing in Beirut of Hamas’s deputy leader is but the latest of many covert attacks on individuals in Iran and the Arab sphere attributed to agents of Israel. Do prime minister Benjamin … Read more