In 1988, Michael Dukakis bashed Bush for the Iran–Contra Affair and staged a photo-op in a tank to cast himself as a capable military leader — though the plan went sideways when his huge helmet and grin looked more silly than strong.
France has been without a new government for almost two months after French President Emmanuel Macron in June called a surprise election, which delivered a chaotic result where no party gained enough seats to secure a majority in parliament.
DraftKings was granted the use of aforementioned intellectual property rights until the date of the license agreement’s expiration on February 28, 2027 “unless terminated in accordance with the provisions [t]hereof.” DraftKings agreed to pay a “revenue royalty on sales in both the initial and secondary markets” and a minimum guaranteed payment “to be apportioned over five license periods.” The parties agreed that the minimum guaranteed payment would be paid “regardless of how many sales occur or how much revenue is generated.”
And this cheap Russian gas jeopardizes domestic production projects in the Black Sea, while also delaying alternative LNG imports through terminals in Greece, Croatia and Poland, which risks creating stranded assets.
Matthew Noyes, the director of cyber policy and strategy in the Secret Service’s Office of Investigations, told the Aspen Security Forum in July that the agency had been struggling for a decade to maintain staffing levels due to governmentwide budget caps that were first implemented in 2013.
Nigel Farage’s populist, anti-immigration Reform UK party also won 14 percent of the vote in the general election, raising fears it might pose a genuine electoral threat to Labour next time around.
Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials are using workarounds like spreadsheets and emails to track unaccompanied migrant children after they’re released from government custody, according to a new alert from the Department of Homeland Security’s watchdog.
There will be no shortage of challenges, both internal and external, that Catalonia’s new government will face — as well as a long list of pending tasks regarding health, education, water infrastructure, ecological transition and the improvement of self-government and finances.
Borodaenko wrote to his manager, stating that he would not be coming into the office because “as [a] cancer survivor I’m at extra risk from Covid (it also counts as a disability).” He was not given any information about how to request a formal exception and was terminated shortly after.
“After attacks, politicians formulate steep demands and raise huge expectations, which are quickly disappointed and ultimately further undermine trust in politics,” Peter Neumann, a professor at Kings College London and one of the country’s most prominent terrorism experts, said in a reaction on X.
An even bigger problem, the western diplomats said, is that several countries in the region, including Bahrain and Libya, have locked arms with Lebanon in opposing international regulators’ push for a crackdown, making it all but impossible to effectively target Hezbollah’s illicit financing.
At her rallies, Harris uses subtle age shade, telling crowds that Trump would “return America to a dark past” and called his comments on her race the “same old show.” Her running mate, Minnesota Gov.
The Social Security Administration is set to finalize new rules codifying the agency’s expanded use of audio and video technology to conduct disability determination hearings after the formats retained their popularity following the end of the COVID-19 lockdowns.
In addition to implementing the proposed heat rule, the letter signers demanded that DeJoy share what steps USPS is taking to ensure training records aren’t falsified and prioritize retrofitting postal vehicles with air conditioning where appropriate.
Kyiv wants India to join its vision for "a just peace," aimed at concentrating a global effort around pushing the Kremlin to end its full-scale invasion, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said in a statement Friday.
GAO acknowledged that the budget agency has implemented four priority recommendations since it sent a similar letter to OMB in May 2023, including developing a process to identify and secure information technology assets that support mission essential systems and releasing a strategy to bolster the federal cybersecurity workforce.
On July 21, Italy’s Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni condemned the attack and offered her solidarity with the journalist, while opposition leaders urged the government to dissolve neofascist organizations such as CasaPound.
The other five Justices (John Roberts, Clarence Thomas, Samuel Alito, Brett Kavanaugh, and Amy Coney Barrett) felt that the government had not shown that the lower courts erred in concluding that the three provisions affected other parts of the rule.
The roadmap stands as a stark rebuke of proposals like Schedule F, the unsuccessful 2020 effort to convert tens of thousands of career federal workers in “policy-related” out of the competitive service, effectively making them at-will employees.
Berlin, which is Europe's main supplier of military aid to Kyiv, had already signaled a change in course on Ukraine last month, when the governing coalition of the Social Democrats, the Greens and the Liberals adopted a preliminary deal on a draft budget for 2025.
And earlier this year, the open-source community faced a new type of threat when a user dubbed “Jia Tan” tried to quietly plant a backdoor into XZ Utils, a widely-used file transfer tool found in several Linux builds that power software in major companies that have global presence.
