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Cheney, the daughter of former vice president Dick Cheney and a staunch neoconservative, repeatedly found herself at odds with her party colleagues over Trump and his administration’s policies. A majority of House Republicans voted to oust Cheney from her position – which she had held since January 2019 – on …

In Kinka Usher’s 1999 superhero comedy film, Mystery Men, there is one character, a Mexican wrestler-turned-superhero who goes by the name ‘Sphinx.’ Throughout the film, the ‘Sphinx’ offers up platitudes that would rival Sun Tzu, Confucius, or Yoda. “He who questions training,” he says on one occasion, straight-faced, “only trains …

In a speech on Wednesday in the coastal city of Ashkelon, Israeli Defense Minister Benny Gantz promised to continue taking the fight to Hamas and other Palestinian forces before any truce is reached.  “In Gaza, towers are falling, factories are collapsing, tunnels are being wiped out and commanders are being …

For the past few weeks, there has been a series of violent protests and clashes in the South American nation of Colombia, with more than 40 people killed and hundreds injured.  The unrest was triggered by widespread anger over plans to raise taxes and introduce austerity measures from the country’s …

The scandal pushback playbook has not changed since the early 1990s, when it comes to smearing and silencing accusers of powerful men. Democratic candidates have money and protection to pad the fall. They also have the ever-present pseudo-feminist MeToo celebrities to use as a shield and the fourth estate media …

Pakistani bases, airspace and all-season supply routes and communication lines into neighboring Afghanistan had been crucial in enabling and sustaining the US-led military invasion following the 9/11 attacks two decades ago. However, at a press meet in the capital Islamabad on Tuesday, Minister for Foreign Affairs Shah Mehmood Qureshi said …

In a tweet on Wednesday, the court’s chief prosecutor, Fatou Bensouda, said she was concerned by developments in the region.  “I note with great concern the escalation of violence in the West Bank, including East Jerusalem, as well as in and around Gaza, and the possible commission of crimes under …

Users under 18 will display their pronouns only to their followers by default and people can fill out a form to have a pronoun added to the list. Tech website Mashable conducted its own testing and found that there were 41 pronouns currently available on the app.  Facebook, which owns …

Russian Foreign Ministry sources said on Wednesday morning that Ross, who has been a vocal critic of the country’s policy, was among 10 US officials who would be henceforth designated personae non gratae. The diplomat herself later revealed to TASS that she had received notification confirming the decision. Moscow daily …

On Wednesday, Salesforce experienced a global outage, described by chief technology officer Parker Harris as a “major disruption,” crippling Japan’s online booking platform for Covid-19 shots, which is using the US technology.  The booking system crashed in a number of places around the country, including parts of Tokyo and the …