O’Connor, the Democratic Party chairman in Lamar County, Texas, admitted in a public statement on Tuesday to using a “racist term” and said he’d “embarrassed” himself and his political party. “I am deeply and sincerely sorry for my inappropriate and hurtful use of [the] racist term I used to describe …
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Chimaev posted the clip to his Instagram account on Saturday, in which he is seen dancing around the cage and exchanging a series of light blows with the head of the Chechen Republic. In a couple of moves, MMA fan Kadyrov goes on the offensive and then defends a counter …
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The fresh accusation of grifting targeting Cullors, an activist organizer who co-founded the Black Lives Matter network, came this week from the Daily Caller. The right-wing outlet dug through campaign records of a group called Reform LA Jails, which Cullors leads, and found something it considered untoward. A 2019 quarterly …
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Khan-Cullors’ lavish Topanga Canyon home, which consists of three bedrooms and a guest house, is in a neighborhood that is nearly 90% white, according to reports. The home was sold to a corporate entity controlled by the 37-year-old activist. The social activist helped create the Black Lives Matter movement after …
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Abu Ibrahim al-Hashemi al-Qurashi was appointed head of the so-called caliphate in October 2019, following the death of the terror group’s previous leader, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, in a US raid in Syria. Far from being a shadowy mystery, al-Qurashi is well-known to US counterterrorism officials – because he was once …
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Teachers in Los Angeles have fiercely resisted a return to in-person learning, even as their counterparts across the country came around to the idea of returning to work. Before the LA educators finally agreed last month to return to work, American Federation of Teachers President Randi Weingarten stuck up for …
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“Nothing would fundamentally change” if he got elected, Joe Biden told a group of billionaires at a fundraising event during the 2020 presidential campaign. Like the saying goes, when someone tells you who they are, believe them. As I stood up to tell my own history with Joe Biden, his …
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Speaking on Friday in a virtual press conference, Alex Salmond said he aims to build a “supermajority” for independence with the creation of the Alba Party (Alba is the Scottish Gaelic name for Scotland), which will stand for election at the Scottish Parliament elections in May. “Over the next six …
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The persistent US-Iran issues of the comatose 2015 nuclear deal and Washington-imposed sanctions were touched upon by Khamenei in a televised speech on Sunday. Vague promises and signals sent by President Joe Biden’s administration have not impressed Iran, which in the past has trusted the words of the US officials, …
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The special assistant to the prime minister on National Health Services, Faisal Sultan, said that Khan is self-isolating at home. The diagnosis was later confirmed by the Prime Minister’s Office. The news comes just two days after Khan publicly received a vaccine developed by the Chinese firm Sinopharm. A senator …
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