For many Sudanese, the airlift is a terrifying sign that international powers only expect a worsening of the fighting that has already pushed the population into disaster.
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Biden’s 2024 campaign has been hiding in plain sight
The contours of the 2024 campaign that the president will formally launch with a video as soon as this week will look a lot like his messaging and policy moves from the past few months.
Cities reviving downtowns by converting offices to housing
A growing number of developers are considering converting empty office towers into housing as part of an effort to revive struggling downtown business districts that emptied out during the pandemic
Drone attack on Crimea naval base was thwarted, Russia says
Russian news reports also claimed Monday that a Ukrainian exploding drone was found in a forest about 19 miles east of the Russian capital.
CNN, Don Lemon part ways weeks after Nikki Haley comments
The ‘CNN This Morning’ co-host said on Twitter that the news came as a surprise to him and characterized it as a firing, which CNN disputed.
Tucker Carlson, Fox News’ most popular host, out at network
The news comes a week after Fox agreed to pay Dominion Voting Systems more than $787 million and acknowledged that some of its reporting following the 2020 election was false.
Prosecutor says Proud Boys viewed themselves as ‘Trump’s army’
Former Proud Boys national chairman Enrique Tarrio and 4 lieutenants are charged with seditious conspiracy for what prosecutors say was a plot to stop Congress from certifying Joe Biden’s presidential electoral victory.
Nine teenagers injured in shooting at prom after-party in Texas
A sheriff’s office in Texas says 9 teenagers were shot in a home at a prom after-party attended by hundreds.
Ken Potts, one of last 2 USS Arizona survivors, dies at 102
Ken Potts was working as a crane operator shuttling supplies to the Arizona the morning of Dec. 7, 1941, when the Pearl Harbor attack happened.
Meghan Markle shuts down rumors ahead of King Charles’ coronation
Earlier this month, the palace confirmed that Prince Harry will attend the coronation of his father without Meghan – who will remain in California with the couple’s two children.