Day: May 17, 2024

Blue city’s exodus continues for third straight year, but slower: ‘People just feel trapped’

10:00 pm May 17, 2024

Portland’s exodus continued for a third year, though at a slower rate, according to new Census Bureau estimates, even as other metropolitan areas rebounded from pandemic-era population dips. “There’s a lot of concern,” DHM Research Senior Vice President John Horvick previously told Fox News of the city’s population losses. He said the most common reaction […]

Mayorkas forced to admit more migrants have crossed US border under Biden than Trump: ‘Several million people’

9:57 pm May 17, 2024

Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas on Friday admitted that the number of migrants who have crossed the southern border under his watch outpaces that under the Trump administration — but blamed a number of hemispheric factors and a “broken” system for the border crisis. Mayorkas was asked at an event at The Economic Club in […]

Croatia gets new government with a far-right party included ahead of European parliamentary vote

9:56 pm May 17, 2024

Croatian lawmakers on Friday voted into office a new government that marks a tilt to the right in another European Union nation ahead of the 27-nation bloc’s parliamentary election next month. Although it is still dominated by conservative Croatian Democratic Union, or HDZ, the new Croatian government now also includes hard-right Homeland Movement, a relatively […]

Nathan Wade’s estranged wife says he’s failed to pay spousal support since resigning from Fani Willis’ office

9:54 pm May 17, 2024

The estranged wife of ex-special prosecutor Nathan Wade said in a Georgia court filing Friday that Wade claims his resignation from his post at the Fulton County District Attorney’s office “constitutes a substantial change in circumstance, rendering him unable to meet his financial obligation” in their divorce proceedings. Wade was hired in 2021 by DA […]

Slovakia’s prime minister underwent another operation. He remains in serious condition

9:03 pm May 17, 2024

Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico has undergone another operation two days after being shot multiple times and remains in serious condition, officials said Friday. Fico, 59, was attacked as he was greeting supporters after a government meeting in the former coal mining town of Handlova. A suspected assailant has been arrested. SLOVAKIA PRIME MINISTER ROBERT […]