Mon, December 9, 2024

[ Mon, Dec 09th 2024 ]: Click2Houston

Five years since its inception, a US development agency competes with China on global projects

Since its inception in 2019, a U.S. development agency has created a portfolio of more than $50 billion worth of projects in 114 countries, including a trans-Africa railway corridor, a power plant in Sierra Leone,

[ Mon, Dec 09th 2024 ]: Roll Call

Republicans start making immigration plans for next year

Republican have started plotting how to use unified control of government next year to best address funding and policy needs for immigration.

[ Mon, Dec 09th 2024 ]: Slate

The Moment Is Ripe to Push the Middle East in the Direction of Peace. What Will Trump Do?

The Middle East seems to be on the brink of a transformation—whether toward stability or fiercer mayhem is hard to say, all the more so with Donald Trump returning to the White House in six weeks.

[ Mon, Dec 09th 2024 ]: The New York Times

Syrian Military Officials Charged With War Crimes as Government Falls

Jamil Hassan and Abdul Salam Mahmoud ran an infamous prison in Damascus and "sought to terrify, intimidate and repress any opposition, or perceived opposition, to the regime," according to the indictment.

[ Mon, Dec 09th 2024 ]: National Post

Liberal government survives third Conservative non-confidence vote

OTTAWA - Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre's latest attempt to topple the minority Liberal government in a non-confidence vote failed on Monday, thanks to the New Democrats.

[ Mon, Dec 09th 2024 ]: USA Today

'Agent of transformation': GOP senators praise Donald Trump's FBI director pick, Kash Patel

Kash Patel is an agent of transformation. He'll do a great job,' Sen. Roger Marshall, R-Kansas, told USA Today.

[ Mon, Dec 09th 2024 ]: USA Today

Can Trump use Jill Biden's image to sell perfume?

Trump posted a picture of himself with Jill Biden on social media Sunday to help sell a new line of perfumes and colognes.

[ Mon, Dec 09th 2024 ]: Fox News

Here is who is vying for power in Syria after the fall of Bashar al-Assad

The fall of Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad, the culmination of years of civil war, has given way to a power vacuum with different factions protecting their own interests - and vying for power in the Middle Eastern nation.

[ Mon, Dec 09th 2024 ]: Yahoo

Syrian government services come to a 'complete halt' as state workers stay home after rebel takeover

Syria's prime minister said Monday that most cabinet ministers were still at work after rebels overthrew President Bashar Assad, but some state workers failed to return to their jobs, and a United Nations official said the country's public sector had come "to a complete and abrupt halt.

[ Mon, Dec 09th 2024 ]: The New York Times

The Fall of Assad in Syria: How It Happened and What Comes Next

The main rebel group behind Assad's ouster is Hayat Tahrir al-Sham, whose name means Organization for the Liberation of the Levant. It began to come together at the beginning of Syria's civil war, when jihadists formed the Nusra Front to fight pro-Assad forces with hundreds of insurgent and suicide attacks.

[ Mon, Dec 09th 2024 ]: Detroit News

Trump has flip-flopped on abortion policy. His appointees may offer clues to what happens next

Trump's cabinet picks offer a preview of how his administration could handle abortion after he repeatedly flip-flopped on the issue on the campaign trail.

[ Mon, Dec 09th 2024 ]: St. Louis Post-Dispatch

International Institute of St. Louis' CEO is out

International Institute president and CEO Arrey Obenson's last day with the organization was Friday, according to an internal email obtained by the Post-Dispatch.

[ Mon, Dec 09th 2024 ]: Buffalo News

And then there were 3: Council Member Rasheed Wyatt enters Buffalo mayor's race

Wyatt becomes the third candidate to officially declare his candidacy after State Sen. Sean Ryan and former Buffalo Fire Commissioner Garnell Whitfield Jr., who both threw their hats in the ring last month.

[ Mon, Dec 09th 2024 ]: Smithsonian Magazine

'Polarization' Is Merriam-Webster's Word of the Year for 2024

The winning word beat out finalists such as "demure," "pander," "totality," "fortnight," "allision" and "democracy"

[ Mon, Dec 09th 2024 ]: AOL

Ghana becomes record fifth African nation to see opposition victory this year

This year has been an "annus horribilis" for those governments in sub-Saharan Africa that have had to face voters at the ballot box. In almost every election held in the region this year under reasonably democratic conditions, the governing party either lost a significant number of seats or lost power completely.

[ Mon, Dec 09th 2024 ]: BBC

Rachel Reeves signals wider reset of EU relations

Closer relations between the UK and the EU will boost economic growth, Rachel Reeves will tell European finance leaders on Monday. In the first address by a British chancellor to the Eurogroup since Brexit, Reeves will say resetting relations means "breaking down barriers to trade" as well as helping "businesses sell in each other's markets".

[ Mon, Dec 09th 2024 ]: Journalist's Resource

If you report on US colleges and universities, get to know these 19 higher education databases

We spotlight free higher education databases that offer information on U.S. student demographics, campus safety, faculty pay and other topics.

[ Mon, Dec 09th 2024 ]: Yahoo

Syrian PM says government still works, but UN official says public sector is at a 'complete halt'

Syria's prime minister said Monday that most cabinet ministers were still at work after rebels overthrew President Bashar Assad, but some state workers failed to return to their jobs, and a United Nations official said the country's public sector had come "to a complete and abrupt halt.

[ Mon, Dec 09th 2024 ]: The New York Times

Supreme Court Turns Down Cases on Admissions, Gender Identity and Guns

Conservative justices voiced objections and concerns about the court's failures to take up a series of cases on major social controversies.

[ Mon, Dec 09th 2024 ]: Sydney Morning Herald

Voters back migration cuts as Dutton retreats on target

The Coalition is standing by its stated goal of reducing permanent migration after scrapping a separate pledge to cut the number of net arrivals to 160,000 a year as an exclusive survey shows strong majority support for a lower intake.

[ Mon, Dec 09th 2024 ]: Mother Jones

How Kash Patel Became a Useful Idiot for Vladimir Putin

With Donald Trump tapping Kash Patel, the MAGA provocateur, conspiracy theory monger, and grifter, to be FBI director, it's time to revisit the Trump-Russia scandal. I know many folks think this is old news.

[ Mon, Dec 09th 2024 ]: CNN

'Someone who sees enemies everywhere': How Kash Patel's years as a government lawyer fueled his disdain for Washington elites

Years before he was Donald Trump's pick to lead the FBI, Kash Patel was a midlevel Justice Department lawyer who once drew the ire of a Texas judge who described Patel as being precisely the kind of federal bureaucrat he has vowed to weed out in his crusade against the so-called deep state.

[ Mon, Dec 09th 2024 ]: The Independent

Trump's controversial nominees Patel, Gabbard and Hegseth on Capitol Hill in attempt to win over senators: Live

President-elect promises to free Capitol rioters and says representatives that investigated him 'should go to jail' in Meet the Presss interview with Kristen Welker

[ Mon, Dec 09th 2024 ]: WESA

Meet Pennsylvania's 2024 electors and learn about the Electoral College

Pennsylvania has 19 electoral votes. Like most states, Pennsylvania awards all of them to the winner of the popular vote. Trump won 3.5 million votes to Democrat Kamala Harris' 3.4 million, giving him all of Pennsylvania's electoral votes. In total, Trump won 312 electoral votes to Harris' 226.

[ Mon, Dec 09th 2024 ]: The Mirror

Downfall of 'rat of Damascus' Assad is a 'humiliation' for Russia and Iran, says David Lammy

Foreign Secretary David Lammy said Syrian tyrant Bashar al Assad had 'the blood of countless innocents on his hands' who had fled to Moscow 'with his tail between his legs'

[ Mon, Dec 09th 2024 ]: London Evening Standard

Government accused of 'tinkering' with housebuilding permissions

A Conservative shadow housing minister has suggested the Government is "tinkering" with planning decision-making, instead of "getting developers developing and builders building" new homes.

[ Mon, Dec 09th 2024 ]: CNN

Who is the leader of Syria's rebels and what does he want?

The US State Department is advertising an up to 10-million-dollar reward for information leading to the capture of Abu Mohammad al-Jolani, who the agency first designated as a terrorist more than a decade ago,

[ Mon, Dec 09th 2024 ]: The Grio

Rep. Clyburn has a lot to get off his chest about Trump and the future of American democracy

[ Mon, Dec 09th 2024 ]: Wall Street Journal

Biden Is Ceding Presidential Influence to Trump, and Some Democrats Are Furious

The president-elect doesn't take office until Jan. 20, but he's negotiating with foreign leaders and many are taking cues from his comments.

[ Mon, Dec 09th 2024 ]: MSN

Battling Fear and Indifference, Exiled Chechen Women Protest Kadyrov

People are afraid to go out to protest. They are afraid to show their faces, afraid to speak out publicly. Both the Russian and the Kadyrov regimes exploit this," said Chechen-born activist Fatima Suleymanova.

[ Mon, Dec 09th 2024 ]: MSN

Tory councillor and PCC hopeful defects to Reform

A Conservative councillor has announced his defection to Reform UK. Robert Potts was elected to Durham County Council in 2021 and this year stood as the Tory candidate for the area's police and crime commissioner (PCC).

[ Mon, Dec 09th 2024 ]: MSN

Party leaders hold 'constructive' meeting on forming government

Party leaders hold 'constructive' meeting on forming government - Simon Harris and Micheal Martin have asked their respective negotiating teams to begin talks on putting together the next coalition administration.

[ Mon, Dec 09th 2024 ]: MSN

Ex-Trump solicitor general representing Chinese social media giant in case against US government

From 2017-2020, attorney Noel J. Francisco served as solicitor general during the first Trump Administration. Francisco went on to join a major law firm, Jones Day, after leaving the White House in July 2020.

[ Mon, Dec 09th 2024 ]: MSN

Trump vows to end birthright citizenship and talks Jan 6 pardons in first post-election TV interview: Live

Trump vows to end birthright citizenship and talks Jan 6 pardons in first post-election TV interview: Live - Trump insisted that he would not direct the Justice Department to go after his political ri

[ Mon, Dec 09th 2024 ]: MSN

What is birthright citizenship and the 14th amendment? Explaining Trump's desired changes

On 'Meet the Press,' Donald Trump again promised to use executive action to change birthright citizenship. What does that mean?

[ Mon, Dec 09th 2024 ]: MSN

Canada's government to release annual fall economic statement on Dec. 16

The Canadian government will present its annual fall economic statement on Dec. 16, the finance ministry said on Monday. The mid-fiscal year mini-budget will be presented later than usual due to gridlock in parliamentary proceedings,

[ Mon, Dec 09th 2024 ]: MSN

'The View': Whoopi and Ana Navarro Clash Over How Panicked People Should Be About Trump

The first segment of "The View" ended in a heated clash between Whoopi Goldberg and Ana Navarro on Monday, as the ABC hosts clashed over just how panicked people should be about Donald Trump's second term.

[ Mon, Dec 09th 2024 ]: MSN

From eye doctor to brutal dictator: The rise (and fall) of Syria's Bashar Assad

Bashar al-Assad never intended to go into politics. He became one of the world's most brutal dictators whose thuggish rule ended abruptly when rebels stormed into Damascus Saturday night, causing his army − and him − to flee.

[ Mon, Dec 09th 2024 ]: MSN

Rothman proposes bill to change all mentions of 'West Bank' in Israeli Law to 'Judea and Samaria'

The name of the area in question is a point of contention both internationally and within Israel, and it is called different names in differing institutions.

[ Mon, Dec 09th 2024 ]: MSN

New Jersey becomes latest state to prohibit bans on books in school, public libraries

New Jersey Democratic Gov. Phil Murphy signed a law Monday to prohibit public and school libraries from banning books in the state and to enshrine protections against civil and criminal charges for librarians who comply with the law.

[ Mon, Dec 09th 2024 ]: MSN

What to know about Assad's fall and what might happen next in Syria

After 13 years of Syria's grinding civil war, the regime of President Bashar al-Assad is gone, the dictator fleeing his country in the face of a sensational advance by rebel forces.

[ Mon, Dec 09th 2024 ]: MSN

Government Appoints Anti-Corruption Champion For The First Time Since 2022

The government has just appointed a former Labour MP to be the anti-corruption champion. Baroness Margaret Hodge, who now sits in the Lords, will fill the position which has been vacant since June 2022.

[ Mon, Dec 09th 2024 ]: MSN

Cabinet minister praises Elon Musk despite billionaire's criticism of Starmer Government

One of Sir Keir Starmer's most senior ministers has praised Elon Musk despite the billionaire's repeated criticism of the Prime Minister and his Government. Pat McFadden, the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster,

[ Mon, Dec 09th 2024 ]: MSN

Speaker Johnson Makes Alarming Remarks About PBS and Planned Parenthood

House Speaker Mike Johnson recently revealed plans to cut federal funding for PBS and Planned Parenthood. Johnson suggested some spending changes could come from the White House through executive orders,

[ Mon, Dec 09th 2024 ]: MSN

Maddow Blog | Trump's new team marked by ex-cons, billionaires and failed candidates

There are a surprising number of common denominators tying together Trump's personnel decisions for his second term — and the curious list keeps growing.

[ Mon, Dec 09th 2024 ]: MSN

Education News Live December 9, 2024 : IIT Guwahati develops technology to convert methane and carbon dioxide into eco-friendly biofuel

Check out this space for the latest education news. Get to know about various exam results, board exam details, competitive exams, admit card, answer key, details about various education loans, visas,

[ Mon, Dec 09th 2024 ]: Associated Press

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[ Mon, Dec 09th 2024 ]: The Financial Times

Politics class: Keir Starmer to take aim at Whitehall with new UK 'mission' targets

Both examination boards require Politics students to make an in-depth study of two Prime Ministers, one from 1945-97 and one since 1997. You are asked to assess their ability to control events and policy. If you choose Keir Starmer as your post-1997 example, you need to start collecting material and reflecting on his performance.

Polish EU presidency to focus on energy, defence and economic security

With Trump's arrival in the US White House, a new EU Commission and the ongoing war in Ukraine, security in all its possible dimensions will be the main priority of the next rotating EU presidency, said Poland's Ambassador Agnieszka Bartol.

The Polish EU Presidency, set to begin in January 2025, will prioritize energy, defense, and economic security, according to Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk. During a meeting with European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen, Tusk emphasized the need for a stronger European defense policy, particularly in light of the ongoing war in Ukraine. He advocated for increased defense spending and the development of a European air defense system. Additionally, Tusk highlighted the importance of economic security, suggesting that the EU should focus on reducing dependencies in critical sectors like energy and raw materials. The discussions also touched on the need for a more robust European response to global challenges, including support for Ukraine and addressing migration issues.

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https://www.msn.com/en-xl/politics/government/polish-eu-presidency-to-focus-on-energy-defence-and-economic-security/ar-AA1vy8GQ


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