money Nassau County hosts Memorial Day car parade
New Yorkers marked Memorial Day with car convoys and small ceremonies instead of parades, as those looking to honor fallen military members contended with coronavirus restrictions.
New Yorkers marked Memorial Day with car convoys and small ceremonies instead of parades, as those looking to honor fallen military members contended with coronavirus restrictions.
Labour could raise capital gains tax if it inherits a struggling economy after the next election, Lisa Nandy has suggested.
Patti Chang walked into her polling place in Chicago earlier this year, anxious about how poll workers would treat her, especially as a voter who is blind. Like many voters with disabilities, Chang faces barriers at the polls most voters never even consider — missing ramps or door knobs, for example. The lack of help or empathy from some poll workers just adds to the burden for people with disabilities.
It’s Palm Sunday, and across the greater Nashville, Tennessee, region, many Christians headed to worship services grief-stricken and hurting for the lives stolen too soon in The Covenant School shooting. On the first Sunday after the attack — and the start of Christianity's most sobering and sacred week — the tragedy could not and should not be avoided, said Pastor George Grant, a local Presbyterian leader with ties to the school and the adjoining Covenant Presbyterian Church. In the aftermath, Grant and other clergy decided to make space in their Palm Sunday services for communal grief.
Spain's colourful Holy Week celebrations begin on Sunday, featuring centuries-old processions of the faithful carrying flower-covered floats topped with statues of Christ or the Virgin Mary that draw huge crowds.Guatemala's Holy Week -- a vibrant celebration that mixes Mayan rituals with Catholic religious fervour -- was last year given UNESCO heritage status.
Chris Christie, one of the only 2016 presidential candidates to seriously consider taking on Donald Trump again, says he and his fellow Republican rivals made a strategic error in that race. Instead of going after Trump directly, Christie said, each hoped to winnow the GOP field before taking on the combative outsider. More than seven years later, Republicans are still trying to figure out how to run against Trump, a calculation that’s only become more complicated with an indictment of the former president by a Manhattan grand jury.
When the FDIC agrees to "share losses" with banks, it's a good deal for the bankers. Is it a good deal for the FDIC?
Japan's Foreign Minister Yoshimasa Hayashi protested in a meeting Sunday with his Chinese counterpart the detention of a Japanese national in Beijing and raised “strong concern" about China's escalating military activity near Taiwan and around Japan. Hayashi is making a two-day visit in China, becoming Japan’s first diplomat to make the trip in more than three years as frictions grow between the countries.
Donald Trump has made history so many times. Now, he adds another: Even as he hopes to return to the White House in 2025, he is the first former president to be indicted. Trump is hardly the first president, in or out of office, to face legal trouble.
President Volodymyr Zelensky on Sunday hailed Ukraine for fighting off "the biggest force against humanity of our time", one year after the first bodies were found in the streets of Bucha.You have stopped the biggest force against humanity of our time," Zelensky said in a post on Telegram, accompanied by photos of areas liberated a year ago when Russian troops retreated from around the Ukrainian capital.
‘It’s only making music that does this to me,’ he said
I once had an eccentric relative who hosted drinks parties in her Chelsea flat “so the young could meet”. It was a wonderful way to get to know others my age when I first came to London. She was good at finding common ground between guests, though, cruelly, we also bonded in our mutual dismay at having to drink thimblefuls of sherry with dotty Aunt Ella.
Finns voted on Sunday in legislative elections that could see the country take a dramatic turn to the right, as centre-right and anti-immigration parties vie to unseat Social Democratic Prime Minister Sanna Marin.The Social Democratic Party (SDP) led by Marin, who took office in 2019 as the world's youngest prime minister at age 34, was in third place with 18.7 percent.
The last Royal Court transfer to the Apollo, Shaftesbury Avenue was Jez Butterworth’s mega-hit Jerusalem, revived there last spring. The latest – Ryan Calais Cameron’s For Black Boys Who Have Considered Suicide When the Hue Gets Too Heavy – could hardly be more different, beginning with its mouthful of a title.
America’s richest family has taken a stake in a start-up founded by Euan Blair, the son of the former Labour Prime Minister.
Bulgarians were voting on Sunday in their fifth general election in two years, amid visible frustration and deep divisions over the war in Ukraine.The ultra-nationalist Vazrazhdane party, which defends the Kremlin's war, stands to gain some 13 percent of the vote on Sunday, according to opinion polls, up from the 10 percent it won in the October ballot.
Putin’s forces target town of Kostiantynivka
Crowd cheered as ‘Abbott Elementary’ star made dig at sitcom’s lack of diversity
The Energy Secretary is flying to Japan to promote British businesses amid a scramble for offshore wind farm deals worth tens of billions of pounds.
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Montenegrins headed to the polls on Sunday to elect their next president in a vote that could see a young upstart unseat incumbent Milo Djukanovic, who has dominated the country's political scene for decades."I’m absolutely convinced that I will become the new president of the country, that today the citizens of Montenegro will send the current president into the political past," said Milatovic on Sunday before casting his vote.