Louisiana’s Bill Cassidy describes heated exchange after Trump questioned War Powers Act at GOP luncheon
A Republican senator who lost re-election after Donald Trump endorsed his primary challenger said he got into a heated argument with the president on Wednesday amid discontent in Congress over the war with Iran and Trump’s demand that the GOP pass a bill that would impose a host of new rules on voting nationwide.
The squabble between Trump and the Louisiana senator Bill Cassidy erupted at a lunch in the US Capitol after the president abruptly cancelled a signing ceremony for a housing bill that passed both chambers with rare overwhelming bipartisan support on Wednesday. Trump said he would withhold his signature from the legislation, aimed at lowering the cost of housing, until Congress passes the Save America Act, which would impose new identification requirements on voters and curtail mail-in voting.
Continue reading...Previously hidden text revealed without unrolling scroll discusses stoic philosophy on ethics, art and human behaviour
The surviving part of an ancient scroll that was burnt to a crisp when Mount Vesuvius erupted nearly 2,000 years ago has been virtually unwrapped and read with help from artificial intelligence.
Researchers uncovered 20 columns of previously hidden text covering more than a metre of charred papyrus without physically unrolling the scroll. The work discusses stoic philosophy on ethics, art and human behaviour and dates to the second or late-third century BC.
Continue reading...Leftist Iván Cepeda conceded to far-right lawyer Abelardo de la Espriella who won by razor-thin margin
The defeated leftwing candidate in Colombia’s presidential runoff has conceded to the far-right, Trump-admiring millionaire lawyer Abelardo de la Espriella.
Since Sunday night, the preliminary count had already pointed to a De la Espriella victory by a razor-thin margin of less than 1% of the vote.
Continue reading...It is customary to say something complimentary about a departing PM but the Tory leader couldn’t meet the moment
You learn a lot about a person at a time like this. Not so much about the prime minister, who has resigned. Keir Starmer has already revealed how he deals with a personal loss. But about the leader of the opposition. Here was a chance for Kemi Badenoch to show her human side. To give the world a rare sighting of her empathy gene. But Kemi just can’t go there. She can’t read a room. She has only one mode. All-out attack.
Other people’s moments of weakness are just material for her to use against them. Even now, she probably thinks she played a blinder at prime minister’s questions. A chance taken to humiliate Keir when he’s down. She has no idea how graceless she is. How charmless.
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