Two months after the Supreme Court blocked an earlier attempt, President Trump has resumed efforts to remove Federal Reserve Governor Lisa Cook as part of a campaign to fill the central bank’s board with allies.
Morocco continues to take new steps in recognizing and valorizing its cultural diversity. The recent appearance of Tifinagh, the official alphabet of the Amazigh language, on the new Moroccan biometric passport is a striking illustration of this. From now on, the information on this official document is written in Arabic, French, and Amazigh, bearing witness…
Britain’s politics was never so weird. First, the people of Makerfield choose who should be the new prime minister. Now the people of Clacton are to confirm the man who is currently his most popular challenger. Nigel Farage’s Reform UK is still running ahead of all other parties, and he is ahead of all other…
Unlock the White House Watch newsletter for free Your guide to what Trump’s second term means for Washington, business and the world Disney has accused Donald Trump’s media regulator of attempting to “sit in an editor’s chair” as it pushes back on an investigation into The View, the longtime ABC talk show. Brendan Carr, the…
Belgian lawyer Marc Uyttendaele is now the subject of a second complaint for harassment and sexual assault. Revealed by Le Soir, this new case comes while an initial judicial proceeding is already underway and revives questions surrounding this well-known figure of the Brussels bar. According to information published by Le Soir, a second complaint has…
Unlock the White House Watch newsletter for free Your guide to what Trump’s second term means for Washington, business and the world Good news for American soccer fans. Folarin Balogun, one of the breakout stars of this year’s World Cup team, is still a US citizen courtesy of a landmark Supreme Court ruling on Tuesday…
Andy Burnham is not prime minister of the UK – yet. His speech on Monday at the People’s History Museum in Manchester might be read as campaign fodder. But given his lack of opponents, the race to be Labour leader looks already over. If he enters Downing Street, the oration would be the most serious…
King Charles has become Britain’s first monarch in modern times to reveal how much tax he pays on his private income: £24.6m over the past two years. This is not a victory for transparency but a win for those who wish to keep the curtain drawn firmly over the royal finances. What is presented as a radical…
A foul odor permeated the early morning heat as city workers in Tempe, Ariz., unlocked a sewage monitoring shed and opened the tap of a collection jug that had been siphoning from the city’s wastewater over the previous day. They filled a jar, packed it in a blue cooler and hurried to the next shed,…
A historian once told me that the presidency would distill Donald Trump to his essence. That essence, it turns out, is trillions of microscopic organisms that suck up all the oxygen and endanger life around them. That essence is slimy, stinky and unrelenting, as reflected in the mass of algae that infests the Reflecting Pool…
