‘My son needs me’: Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce to retire after Paris Olympics

Three-time Olympic champion wants to focus on her familyJamaican sprinter ‘owes it to [family] to do something else’ Three-time Olympic champion Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce has revealed she plans to retire after the Paris Games this summer. The 37-year-old won the 100m title in both 2008 and 2012, and collected a third Olympic gold as part of … Read more

Trump wins Nevada GOP caucus as SCOTUS weighs ballot case

Former President Donald Trump won the Nevada GOP caucus on Thursday, according to an NBC News projection. The victory comes as the Supreme Court appears unwilling to condone the effort to kick Trump off the presidential ballot. NBC’s Laura Jarrett reports for TODAY.

Biden says ‘memory is fine’ after special counsel report released

In an evening news conference, President Joe Biden was defiant while responding directly to special counsel Robert Hur’s report on his handling of classified documents that included an assessment that Biden did not remember when his son Beau died. “How in the hell dare he raise that? I don’t need anyone to remind me when … Read more

Florida schoolkids may have to study ‘threat of communism in the US’

Republican bills likely to reach Governor Ron DeSantis, who has railed against indoctrination of students by ‘liberal elites’ Kindergartners in Florida might soon be compelled to balance learning their ABCs with lectures on the history of communism, if a Republican proposal moving through the state’s legislature becomes law. House bill 1349 would also create a … Read more

US hospital treated 441 patients with severe injuries from border wall last year

California doctors say growing number of patients have ‘fractures all over their body’ after falls from wall ‘like a three-story building’ Doctors at the University of California, San Diego’s trauma center (UCSD) have treated 455 patients with serious injuries sustained while trying to cross the US-Mexico border in 2023, a marked increase from the year … Read more

The world is hungry for cocaine and happy to buy it. But think of the ravaged countries that pay the price | Roberto Saviano

The wave of brutality and terror by gangsters in Ecuador represented a ‘drug coup’. And we are complicit in this violence and mayhem What happened in Ecuador a few weeks ago, when the country descended into gang violence and TV journalists were seen by millions cowering in front of people pointing high-powered weapons at their … Read more

US supreme court justices have strange views on whether Trump is disqualified

The justices, wanting to restore Trump to the ballot, didn’t address the underlying question of if he incited an insurrection Elena Kagan once referred to Jonathan Mitchell sarcastically as “some genius”. That was in oral arguments surrounding SB8, the bounty-hunter abortion ban that Texas succeeded in passing before the overturn of Roe v Wade, which … Read more