SEPTEMBER 14, 2023
US President Joe Biden’s team has begun to execute an impeachment playbook more than a year in the making: Discredit the investigators while sticking to the business of governing.
Biden’s aides spent the August congressional recess honing their plans after House Speaker Kevin McCarthy suggested in late July he was likely to open an impeachment inquiry.
But they’d been...
SEPTEMBER 13, 2023
A stock image of covid-era office worker. Tim Gurner said he wanted unemployment to rise in Australia. - Getty Images
A millionaire CEO wants to "kill" the attitude of workers he believes have been empowered by changes made to work following the COVID lockdowns.
Australian luxury property developer Tim Gurner's comments at The Australia Financial Review Property Summit on...
SEPTEMBER 13, 2023
The National Retail Federation estimates shrink topped $94 billion in 2021, which would put this year's figure well north of $100 billion if the rate remains the same or increases. Jahi Chikwendiu/TWP via Getty Images
A growing number of retailers are blaming retail theft for hurting their profits this year.
Estimates say inventory shrink will exceed $100...
SEPTEMBER 12, 2023
Indian ed-tech giant Byju’s is aiming for a surprise move to get over the rough patch and debt headache it has been facing for months. The Byju Raveendran-led decacorn is looking to offload two foreign companies it bought for around Rs 8,195 crore combined in order to repay the entire $1.2 billion (Rs 9,956 crore) loan to...
SEPTEMBER 12, 2023
FILE PHOTO: People receive their second COVID-19 boosters in Waterford, Michigan.
A U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) advisory panel met on Tuesday to come up with a recommendation on whether updated COVID-19 shots approved by the government should be used broadly or targeted to specific at-risk populations, setting the stage for the launch of a...
SEPTEMBER 12, 2023
Speaker of the House Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) announces an impeachment inquiry against U.S. President Joe Biden to members of the news media outside his office at the U.S. Capitol, Sept. 12, 2023, in Washington.
Speaker Kevin McCarthy announced Tuesday he was ordering House Republicans to move ahead with an impeachment inquiry into President Joe Biden.
"Today, I am directing...
SEPTEMBER 11, 2023
Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin.
WASHINGTON, D.C. - Virginia Republican Gov. Glenn Youngkin on Friday pardoned a Loudoun County father who was arrested at a school board meeting in 2021 while seeking answers about his daughter’s sexual assault on school property.
Scott Smith was charged with obstruction of justice and disorderly conduct for his behavior at the meeting, which took...
SEPTEMBER 11, 2023
US State Department official spokesperson Matthew Miller said the G20 leadership summit ended with “great fervour” in New Delhi under India’s presidency and that the summit was an ‘absolute success’.
“We absolutely believe it was a success. The G20 is a big organisation. Russia is a member of the G20. China is a member of the G20,” Miller...
SEPTEMBER 11, 2023
Ceremony to mark 22nd anniversary of September 11, 2001 attacks on the World Trade Center.
WASHINGTON, D.C. - Americans paused on Monday to remember the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, 22 years after Islamist hijackers seized control of jetliners and crashed them into the twin towers of New York's World Trade Center and the Pentagon.
Ceremony to mark 22nd anniversary...
SEPTEMBER 11, 2023
To meet the chronic challenge of lethal air pollution during the winter months in Delhi, the Aam Aadmi Party government has decided to completely ban the production, storage, sale, online delivery, and bursting of firecrackers. “The day after Diwali is shrouded with smoke and when the smoke from stubble burning is added to it, the pollution levels...
