Time Is Running Out for Congress to Raise the Debt Ceiling
With a June 5 deadline looming, there is much to be done to prevent the default that leaders of both parties said would never happen. Send any friend a story…
May 2023
Sedition Sentence for Oath Keepers’ Stewart Rhodes Marks Moment of Accountability
The 18 years in prison given to Stewart Rhodes for a rarely charged crime underscored the lengths to which the Justice Department and the courts have gone in addressing the…
$49.5 Billion in U.S. Treasury? For These Billionaires, That’s Nothing
The cash balance at the Treasury Department is now lower than the net worth of some of the world’s richest people. Send any friend a story As a subscriber, you…
Germany to restore electoral threshold for 2029 European election
A new electoral threshold for EU Parliament elections could be introduced in time for the 2029 elections if a government proposal, now in the committee phase, is adopted by lawmakers.…
Outcome of upcoming Spanish elections still open
Polls predict different outcomes of the Spanish regional and municipal elections due on Sunday, with some predicting more wins for Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez’s Socialist Party-wing party, while others found…
Influential Bulgarian mafia boss killed in South Africa
A notorious figure of the Bulgarian criminal underground, Krasimir Kamenov, nicknamed Karo, and his wife were killed in a bloody massacre in Cape Town, South Africa, on Thursday, sources confirmed…
Tom Sawyer, Congressman Who Challenged Census Undercount, Dies at 77
A Democrat from Ohio, he said the 1990 population data missed more than two million Black Americans and shortchanged the nation’s older cities. Send any friend a story As a…
Hungary ‘unfit’ to hold EU presidency, warn MEPs
Hungary’s multiple breaches of EU law make it unfit to hold the bloc’s rotating presidency in 20
Austria’s Social Democrat chief retires from politics after losing leadership race
Pamela Rendi-Wagner, the erstwhile leader of Austria’s centre-left, has announced her full retirement from politics after party members placed her third in a three-way leadership race. Rendi-Wagner has led the…
The Brief — A march to the Hexit
Each time you think Hungary’s estrangement from the EU couldn’t get any worse, another front opens up – this time, over Budapest’s turn at the helm of the rotating six-month…