Day: February 22, 2024

New Orleans police in 11 year power struggle over federal oversight

1:07 am February 22, 2024

The New Orleans Police Department’s progress in complying with an 11-year-old reform agreement has “accelerated dramatically,” a federal judge said Wednesday, but she gave no indication when she would feel comfortable relaxing court oversight of the department. Judge Susie Morgan’s comments in an afternoon hearing appeared to mark a softening of tensions between the court […]

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Brazilian foreign minister calls for UN reform at G20 kickoff

1:02 am February 22, 2024

Brazil’s foreign minister called for reforms of the United Nations and other multilateral institutions Wednesday while criticizing their inability to prevent global conflicts, as his country kicked off its presidency of the Group of 20 nations. Mauro Vieira told fellow foreign ministers during opening remarks for a G20 meeting in Rio de Janeiro that the […]

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Jean-Pierre rips NY Times’ reporting on Biden’s age, mental acuity: ‘Look in the mirror’

1:00 am February 22, 2024

White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre ripped the New York Times on Wednesday for its coverage of concerns about President Biden’s age and mental competence following the release of the Hur report earlier this month. Jean-Pierre told a member of the White House press gaggle on board Air Force One that she agrees with former […]

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Zelenskyy praises ‘heroic’ soldiers in preview of Bret Baier’s exclusive Fox News interview: ‘no plan B’

12:02 am February 22, 2024

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy in an exclusive interview on the front lines touted major victories since the war with Russia started and refused to discuss any “Plan B” for his forces.  “During these two years, they occupied the Kharkiv region [and] now we are in this region,” Zelenskyy told FOX News chief political anchor and executive […]

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Trump’s ‘Empire’? As Donald teases MSG rally, analysts suggest NY race ‘tightening’

12:00 am February 22, 2024

After former President Trump floated holding a rally at Madison Square Garden and a campaign stop in the heavily-Democratic South Bronx during a town hall with Fox News’ Laura Ingraham, analysts considered what had been an impossible thought until recently – Trump winning New York state. “I think there’s a chance to win New York,” […]

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