Trouble with tha God

NEW YORK — It’s not so much that Charlamagne tha God has beef with the president. It’s just that he thinks Joe Biden is a lousy messenger and that he lacks the basic political skills that — whatever one thinks about the guy — Donald Trump possesses. Sitting in the second row of his black Escalade as his driver crawls through Manhattan traffic on a late October morning, the...

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RIP ‘worker-centered trade’: Biden’s global economic agenda stalls

President Joe Biden’s ambitious plans to rewrite the rules of global trade — and blunt Donald Trump’s economic message against him — are running aground just as the nation enters election season. The chief reason: Biden has failed to sell his self-styled “worker-centered” trade policy to key members of his own party, stoking fears of a backlash at the ballot box from the...

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Washington helps millions pay their internet bills. This spring that help could go away.

Rolanda Hayden may owe her job to a fast home internet connection — and a benefit from Washington that lets her afford it. The 56-year-old resident of mountainous Brevard, N.C., started receiving federal aid that helps low-income people pay for broadband internet while she was studying for her bachelor’s degree during the coronavirus pandemic. The criminal justice degree...

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The USS Gerald R. Ford aircraft carrier is returning home after extended deployment defending Israel

After months of extra duty at sea providing protection for Israel, the USS Gerald R. Ford aircraft carrier strike group will be heading home, the Navy announced on Monday. The Ford and its accompanying warships will be replaced by the amphibious assault ship the USS Bataan and its accompanying warships, the USS Mesa Verde and the USS Carter Hall. The three vessels had been...

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In rare apology, Israeli minister says she ‘sinned’ for her role in reforms that tore country apart

JERUSALEM — A former member of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s Cabinet offered a rare public apology Sunday for contributing to the internal strife in Israel that preceded the Oct. 7 attack by Hamas militants from the Gaza Strip. The mea culpa by Galit Distel Atbaryan, a lawmaker from Netanyahu’s Likud Party, was one of the first times a Likud member has accepted responsibility...

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Former Texas Rep. Eddie Bernice Johnson dies at 88

Former Texas Rep. Eddie Bernice Johnson, a trailblazing Black Democrat in who served in Congress for 30 years, has died at 88, her son said Sunday “I am heartbroken to share the news that my mother, Eddie Bernice Johnson, has passed away. She was a remarkable and loving mother, mother-in-law, grandmother and great grandmother, as well as a trailblazer and public servant,”...

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America is 'full,' Lindsey Graham says

Sen. Lindsey Graham said Sunday the U.S. is "full" in saying a solution is desperately needed for the surge of migrants at the Southern border. "When you come to our border, we say: I'm sorry, we're full," the South Carolina Republican said on CBS' "Face the Nation." The surge of migrants arriving at the southern border and claiming asylum has left a record number of them...

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