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Biden and His Allies Are Likely to Stay Quiet on Trump’s Manhattan Trial

Apr 15, 2024 ichitra.digital

[ad_1] When former President Donald J. Trump goes on trial on Monday in Manhattan, President Biden and his allies are not likely to say much. For Democrats, a former president facing criminal charges over covering up a sex scandal surrounding the 2016 campaign speaks for itself. The media coverage will be constant, especially if Mr. Trump takes the stand, which he has floated as a possibility. And while Mr. Trump faces up to eight weeks in court, Mr. Biden will be on the campaign trail and employing a “Rose Garden…

Chris Sununu Condemns Trump’s Role in Insurrection Yet Remains Loyal

Apr 14, 2024Apr 15, 2024 ichitra.digital

Chris Sununu’s statements on his support for former President Donald Trump despite acknowledging Trump’s contribution to the January 6 insurrection and criticizing his efforts to overturn the 2020 election. Sununu emphasizes the importance of issues like the economy, border security, and “culture change” over concerns about Trump’s actions. He suggests that many Americans share his views and prioritize these issues over potential felony convictions or challenges to democracy. The article highlights Sununu’s shift from Trump critic to loyal supporter and his assertion that Americans desire a change in culture regardless…

Leading Anti-Abortion Group Says It Is ‘Deeply Disappointed’ in Trump’s Comments

Apr 8, 2024 ichitra.digital

[ad_1] After former President Donald Trump announced his position that abortion rights should be decided by individual states, the leading anti-abortion group supporting Republican candidates said his stance fell short. In a statement Monday morning, Susan B. Anthony Pro-Life America’s president, Marjorie Dannenfelser, said she was “deeply disappointed” in Mr. Trump’s refusal to endorse a federal ban on abortion, adding that allowing states to decide “cedes the national debate to the Democrats who are working relentlessly to enact legislation mandating abortion throughout all nine months of pregnancy.” “If successful, they…

Trump, at Fund-Raiser, Says He Wants Immigrants From ‘Nice’ Countries

Apr 7, 2024 ichitra.digital

[ad_1] Former President Donald J. Trump, speaking at a multimillion-dollar fund-raiser on Saturday night, lamented that people were not immigrating to the United States from “nice” countries “like Denmark” and suggested that his well-heeled dinner companions were temporarily safe from undocumented immigrants nearby, according to an attendee. Mr. Trump, the presumptive Republican presidential nominee, made the comments during a roughly 45-minute presentation at a dinner at a mansion owned by the billionaire financier John Paulson in Palm Beach, Fla., a rarefied island community. Guests were seated outdoors at white-clothed tables…

In New York City, earthquakes are generally tiny, and unnoticed.

Apr 5, 2024 ichitra.digital

[ad_1] New Yorkers have felt tremors before. In January, a 1.7 magnitude earthquake was recorded in Astoria, Queens, early in the morning, jolting awake residents who rushed outside and waited anxiously for firefighters to arrive. Last April, a 3.6 magnitude earthquake rocked the town of Adams Center, N.Y., and a month later, a 2.2 magnitude earthquake rattled parts of New York and New Jersey. In 2011, a 5.8 magnitude earthquake in Virginia led to the evacuation of City Hall and Midtown office buildings in Manhattan. But while the area actually…

Watch These Cute Videos of Babies (and Learn Something, Too)

Mar 31, 2024 ichitra.digital

[ad_1] Instagram video via mandvandheyd. Gayle Julian, an education professor at Olympic College in Washington State, begins many of her classes with what she calls “A Minute With Dan,” in which her students watch and discuss the concepts in some of Mr. Wuori’s videos. His posts, she said, help prospective teachers, many of whom are young adults without their own children, viscerally understand the difficulties that can come from being raised without consistent, positive interactions with adults at home. “What we’re learning about is early childhood trauma and stress and…

Key Bridge Was Also Hit by a Ship in 1980, With Limited Damage

Mar 28, 2024Mar 28, 2024 ichitra.digital

[ad_1] The massive cargo ship that lost control and slammed into a major Baltimore Key Bridge on Tuesday was not the first to do so. The same bridge was also hit by a wayward cargo vessel in 1980. On Aug. 29 of that year, a container ship named the Blue Nagoya drifted into a pier that supported the structure, the Francis Scott Key Bridge, after losing control about 1,800 feet away, according to a 1983 report by the U.S. National Research Council. When the Blue Nagoya hit the Key Bridge,…

The Dali was just starting a 27-day voyage.(Unfortunate)

Mar 26, 2024Mar 28, 2024 ichitra.digital

[ad_1] The Dali was less than 30 minutes into its planned 27-day journey when the ship ran into the Francis Scott Key Bridge on Tuesday. The ship, which was sailing under the Singaporean flag, was on its way to Sri Lanka and was supposed to arrive there on April 22, according to VesselFinder, a ship tracking website. The Dali, which is nearly 1,000 feet long, left the Baltimore port around 1 a.m. Eastern on Tuesday. The ship had two pilots onboard, according to a statement by its owners, Grace Ocean…

Trump Urges Israel to ‘Finish Up Your War’

Mar 25, 2024Mar 25, 2024 ichitra.digital

[ad_1] Former President Donald J. Trump, in an interview with a conservative Israeli news outlet that was published on Monday, exhorted Israel “to finish up your war,” mixing bellicose support for the government of Israel with harsh warnings that the Jewish state was losing international support by providing “a very bad picture for the world.” But while Mr. Trump had typically harsh words for President Biden — he called Mr. Biden “dumb” — he offered no prescriptions for what the United States should do, or for what he would do,…