Texas senator John Cornyn on Thursday announced his intentions to run to replace Sen. Mitch McConnell (Ky.) as the Republican leader in Congress’s upper chamber. “I am asking my Republican colleagues to give me the opportunity to succeed Leader McConnell,” Cornyn said in a statement. “I have learned a lot during my time both in
Iran’s supreme leader Ayatollah Khamenei on Wednesday blamed “Western culture” for the self-immolation of U.S. airman Aaron Bushnell outside of the Israeli embassy in Washington, D.C. “The genocide in Gaza is even too much for that young person who was brought up in the Western culture,” Khamenei said on X. “His conscience was hurting and
The White House referred to illegal immigrants as “newcomers” in a Thursday brief urging Congress to pass a bipartisan bill on border security and asylum restrictions. “The bill also includes $1.4 billion for cities and states who are providing critical services to newcomers, and would expedite work permits for people who are in the country
Russian president Vladimir Putin told Western countries on Thursday they risked provoking a nuclear war if they sent troops to fight in Ukraine, warning that Moscow had the weapons to strike targets in the West. The war in Ukraine has triggered the worst crisis in Moscow’s relations with the West since the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis. Putin has previously
Renewable Energy Alaska Project demands local utility provider fork over consumer data to help form green plan High-voltage electric transmission lines pass through a wind farm in Spearville, Kansas (AP) A green energy advocacy group in Alaska is demanding a local utility provider fork over its consumers’ private energy consumption data. The group wants to
The chief diversity, equity, and inclusion officer of Columbia University’s medical school, Alade McKen, plagiarized extensively in his doctoral dissertation, lifting entire pages of material, without attribution, from sources that include Wikipedia, according to a complaint submitted to the university on Wednesday. The allegations implicate approximately a fifth of McKen’s 163-page dissertation, “‘UBUNTU’ I am
Iraq’s Kurdish region has served as bulwark against Iranian efforts to infiltrate Iraq (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images) The president and vice president both declined face-to-face meetings this week with the prime minister of Iraq’s Kurdish region, Masrour Barzani, a U.S. ally who has served as a bulwark against Iranian efforts to infiltrate Iraq, according to sources