Steve Bannon, the longtime Donald Trump acolyte, was released from prison on Tuesday, following a four-month sentence for defying a congressional subpoena in an investigation of the 6 January 2021 US Capitol attack. The far-right firebrand’s release from federal prison in Danbury, Connecticut, comes just one week before election day. Bannon, 70, surrendered to prison…
Super Bowl LIX Honors NOLA Terror Attack Victims … D.C. Plane Crash, CA Wildfires & Helene Published February 9, 2025 4:39 PM PST | Updated February 9, 2025 5:09 PM PST The Super Bowl kicked off with a powerful message of unity … honoring the victims of the New Orleans terror attack and other tragedies…
“In her mind this was a bastion of the establishment, she was a little worried of rejection,” Kanbar Hossein-Bor said of his mother’s reaction, two decades ago, to the news he was applying to work in the UK Foreign Office. This week, the fear that “he might not be British enough” was proved wrong, when…
A Sudanese war monitor has accused the military of killing hundreds of people in an air strike on a market in the country’s western Darfur region. The Emergency Lawyers group – which documents abuses by both sides in Sudan’s civil war that erupted in April 2023 – said the bombing of Tur’rah market was a…
2025 Jeep Cherokee SUV Stellantis DETROIT — Jeep on Thursday revealed the first details and image of its new Cherokee SUV, which the company expects to assist in the brand’s turnaround when it arrives later this year. The Stellantis brand said the new midsize SUV will feature a hybrid powertrain option but declined to specify…
When he penned his eyewitness account of the 1917 Russian Revolution, American journalist John Reed famously titled it Ten Days That Shook The World. But 10 days is too long for Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin. They’ve shaken things up in a week. It began with the Putin-Trump telephone conversation on 12 February and their…
The Labour faction influencing Downing Street’s pitch to Reform UK voters has urged ministers to “root out DEI”. An article from the Blue Labour campaign group, titled What is to be Done, calls for the government to legislate against diversity, equity and inclusion, echoing the rightwing backlash from Donald Trump and Nigel Farage. Describing itself…
The army of the Democratic Republic of Congo has accused Rwanda of dressing up prisoners in military uniforms in an effort to pass them off as newly-captured rebels linked to the Rwandan genocide. It comes after Rwanda-backed M23 rebels in eastern DR Congo said they had captured fighters from the Democratic Forces for the Liberation…
A man and woman in their 70s have been found dead at an address in a seaside town, police said. Detectives have launched an investigation into the incident, which happened at a property in Anthony’s Avenue, Poole, Dorset, and was reported at 11.35am on Tuesday. Police and the ambulance service went to the scene and…
A flight carrying 199 Venezuelans deported from the US to their homeland has landed at Simón Bolívar airport near Caracas. US repatriation flights to Venezuela had ground to a halt weeks ago after the Trump administration revoked a licence allowing Venezuela to export some of its oil to the US despite sanctions. But on Saturday…
