News & Current Affairs

The former US Secretary of Homeland Security had her handbag – with $3,000 (£2,260) in cash inside – stolen at a restaurant last year. Source link

Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) on Wednesday became incredulous when CNBC anchor Sara Eisen compared her prior outspokenness on the Federal Reserve to that of President Trump. During an interview on “Squawk on the Street,” Eisen noted that the Massachusetts Democrat has been “very outspoken” on “what the Fed should be doing.” Warren, like Trump, has……

Sen. Rick Scott (R-Fla.) is holding up hundreds of Coast Guard promotions over an issue with Eastern Shipbuilding Group, a Florida shipbuilder. In a statement to The Hill on Wednesday, Scott said he has questions about what happened with contracts with the company since President Trump took office and “they haven’t been answered yet.” Eastern……

Florida Republicans are barreling ahead with a high-stakes redistricting session as the party looks to offset Democrats’ new maps in Virginia.   State lawmakers in the Sunshine State are set to convene next week in what is widely seen as the GOP’s last chance to redraw congressional maps before the November midterms.   The effort, however, has……

The Marine Corps has upgraded the valor awards given to Marines who guarded Abbey Gate at the Hamid Karzai International Airport on Aug. 26, 2021 — the day a suicide bomber struck the gate and killed 13 service members and 170 Afghans, the Pentagon said Wednesday. “After reviewing the original awards and determining that several……

Labour MPs say that while the prime minister is unpopular, a contest is unlikely as there isn’t a candidate ready to replace him. Source link

Allegations of a coup plot first surfaced last year when an Independence Day parade was cancelled. Source link

He said the “sheer amount of money” that may have been fraudulently claimed, estimated at £44m, “serves only to underline further that the known levels of fraud in the scheme, as our committee warned earlier in the year, must be being significantly underestimated”. Source link

For some snooker players, changing their cue would be a traumatic experience – not for Ronnie O’Sulivan. The 50-year-old, a seven-time world champion, used a different cue on Wednesday to the one he played with on Tuesday, and both had the same dominant effect. His 10-2 victory over Chinese debutant He Guoqiang was the joint…

Rick Oakes, from York, died from an asbestos-related cancer linked to his work for Kirklees Council. Source link