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 As a subscriber, you have
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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 assault on the Capitol. Send any friend a story As…
$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 have
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 that the conservative Partido Popular (PP) would come out on…
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 to EURACTIV on Thursday. Karo was known as part of…
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 subscriber, you have 10 gift articles to give each month.…
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 2024, MEPs warned this week, in a resolution set to be adopted next week. The resolution, which has the support of the European Parliament’s…
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 Social Democratic Party as an opposition party since 2018, a…
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 EU Council presidency in the second half of 2024. MEPs…
Russian Public Appears to Be Souring on War Casualties, Analysis Shows
Support for the war in Ukraine remains high but could potentially turn if concern over the high numbers of casualties persists, according to FilterLabs AI. By Julian E. Barnes Reporting from Washington May 26, 2023, 11:09 a.m. ET Send any…