Day: February 15, 2024

French President Macron, Ukraine’s Zelenskyy to sign security agreement in Paris

12:44 pm February 15, 2024

French President Emmanuel Macron will sign a bilateral security agreement with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy on Friday in Paris as part of a trip that will also go through Germany, the French presidency said in a statement. It did not release specific details about the agreement, to be signed at the Elysee presidential palace. Macron […]

Rachel Dolezal, former Spokane NAACP chapter head who faked being Black, loses teaching job over OnlyFans page

12:07 pm February 15, 2024

Former Spokane NAACP President Nkechi Diallo — better known as Rachel Dolezal, a white woman who identified as Black — has been fired from a teaching gig in Arizona. Dolezal, 46, was employed as an after-school instructor with the Catalina Foothills School District in Tucson, but lost her job at Sunrise Drive Elementary after local […]

US judge to review proposed Texas law allowing police to arrest migrants for illegal entry

12:05 pm February 15, 2024

A federal judge on Thursday will consider whether Texas can enforce a new law that gives police broad authority to arrest migrants who are accused of entering the U.S. illegally and empowers local judges to order them out of the country. The hearing in Austin is the first legal test of what opponents have called […]

Putin claims he prefers ‘more predictable’ Biden over Trump

12:04 pm February 15, 2024

Russian President Vladimir Putin has claimed in an interview on state television that he would prefer the “more predictable” Joe Biden winning the upcoming U.S. presidential election compared to Donald Trump. Putin made the remark after being asked by an interviewer about who between Biden and the Republican frontrunner for the nomination would be a […]

Frederick Douglass bust unveiled in Massachusetts Statehouse

11:57 am February 15, 2024

A bust of famed abolitionist Frederick Douglass was unveiled in the Massachusetts Senate Chamber on Wednesday, the first bust of an African American to be permanently added to the Massachusetts Statehouse. It’s also the first bust to be added to the Senate Chamber in more than 125 years. Senate President Karen Spilka emphasized the ties […]