Category: Breaking news

Taylor Swift celebrated Pride Month during her Chicago Eras Tour stop Friday. A video posted to Twitter by @PopCrave, captured the moment Swift, dressed in orange and sitting behind a piano, addressed the crowd. “This is a safe space for you. This is a celebratory space for you. And one of the things that makes […]

Dual revelations about Jack Smith’s probe into the mishandling of records at Mar-a-Lago suggest the special counsel’s probe into former President Trump is advancing on several fronts, bolstering the case against him. Reporting from CNN this week indicates authorities have a recording of Trump discussing his inability to share the contents of a classified document […]

Rishi Sunak enters No 10 Downing Street today as the UK’s third prime minister in 2022, and its fifth in six years. Sunak’s investiture of Britain’s highest office may be part of the country’s revolving door political environment, but it is significant as the first time someone of Asian-heritage has made it to the top. The son […]

The 96-year-old queen passed away Thursday at Balmoral, her castle in Scotland.   The death of Queen Elizabeth II is being mourned in Britain and across the world. The country’s longest-reigning monarch died Thursday at age 96. Large crowds gathered outside Buckingham Palace in central London, while tributes pour in from across the country and the world. […]

Deaths from global grain and food shortages due to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine “could be even greater than the lives lost in the war directly,” UK Transport Secretary Grant Shapps said Tuesday. Shapps said he is “very concerned” about the issue, and met with his Ukrainian counterpart Oleksandr Kubrakov last week in Germany to discuss […]

Russia may be on the brink of war. In Moscow, you might not know it   Moscow (CNN)Read most headlines coming out of the West around Ukraine, and the situation looks dire. Russia’s invasion of Ukraine “could begin at any time”– US Secretary of State Antony Blinken. “American citizens should leave now” — President Joe Biden. “The […]

BRUSSELS (AP) — The European Union’s top official said Wednesday that ramping up COVID-19 vaccinations around the world was the bloc’s No. 1 priority right now and committed another 200 million vaccine doses to Africa and low-income nations. European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen used her State of the European Union speech on Wednesday […]

KUWAIT CITY (AP) — U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin said Thursday the al-Qaida extremist group that used Afghanistan as a staging base to attack United States 20 years ago may attempt to regenerate there following an American withdrawal that has left the Taliban in power. Austin spoke to a small group of reporters in Kuwait […]