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Four months ago, Rhode Island mom Nicole Solas, 38, asked the principal of her child’s kindergarten whether the kids would be learning about critical race theory (CRT). Not all parents in the US are happy about its being taught, with some being concerned it focuses on skin colour rather than individual …

However, while backing competing factions in bloody fighting across the Middle Eastern nation, the conflict has paradoxically brought the two powers closer together. So close, it seems, that even NATO is worrying about it. A major breakthrough in relations between Moscow and Ankara was evident when Turkey purchased Russia’s S-400 …

“For the first time, we had secured our energy independence. Now they are asking OPEC, Russia, and other countries to send us some oil,” Donald Trump said, speaking at the ‘Save America’ rally at the Iowa State Fairgrounds in Des Moines on Saturday. “By the time I left office, we …

Boxing has suffered from something of an identity crisis so far in 2021. The sport often proudly places itself in a privileged position compared to its combat sports peers, highlighting its so-called ‘sweet science’ and a storied lineage of pugilists and prizefighters dating back more than a century. But while …

Conservatives have been up in arms over the recent report that Newsom’s 12-year-old daughter has yet to get her Covid-19 jab despite her father publicly encouraging parents to vaccinate their children even though the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has yet to fully greenlight the immunization.  Newsom told the Los …

The emergency vehicle that transported the president had markings on it that indicated it was a mobile ICU, eyewitnesses noted. In September, Zeman spent eight days in hospital, recovering from what he described as dehydration and mild exhaustion. The 77-year-old, who has been the head of state since 2013, started …

Following months of Israeli-Palestinian tensions over Jerusalem’s Old City, the Jerusalem Magistrates Court ruled this Wednesday that Israeli Jews may perform prayers inside Islam’s third holiest site, al-Aqsa Mosque. Israeli police had, in the past, placed a blanket prohibition on Jewish prayer at the site, citing security concerns. Yet, since …

The blast has led to an unspecified number of casualties, witnesses told Reuters. Images from Aden uploaded to social media have captured what appears to be plumes of black smoke coming from the site of the alleged attack. DETAILS TO FOLLOW

As the culture war rages over gender identity,  men with cervixes,  ‘pregnant people’ and who has the right to abuse whom, an unlikely alliance may be emerging between two much maligned ‘minorities’ – women and black men. The 2020 kidnapping and murder of Sarah Everard and the conviction last week …

Fury retained his WBC crown with an 11th-round stoppage of his American rival, capping a pulsating fight which was instantly hailed as an all-time classic. The 6ft 9in British boxer had put Wilder on the canvas in the third round, only to find himself floored twice in the fourth as …