Category: Politico News

President Joe Biden on Saturday condemned the frenzied attack on Salman Rushdie on a New York lecture stage that has left the author on a ventilator. “Jill and I were shocked and saddened to learn of the vicious attack on Salman Rushdie yesterday in New York,” Biden said in a statement released by the White […]

A search warrant newly unsealed on Friday reveals that the FBI is investigating Donald Trump for a potential violation of the Espionage Act and recovered classified documents from the former president’s Florida estate earlier this week. Read the unsealed version of the search warrant and an accompanying receipt below.

In the U.S. military, we have a code: Leave no one behind. As Kabul fell one year ago, an improvised personal network of veterans, journalists and activists rallied together to evacuate as many of our Afghan allies as possible and to honor that code. We made lists, we called in favors with old comrades, we […]

Poland said laboratory tests to investigate a massive fish die-off in the Oder River showed high salt levels but no mercury poisoning its waters. Analyses of river samples taken in both Poland and Germany detected high levels of salinity but no mercury, Anna Moskwa, Poland’s minister of climate and environment, said on Saturday, according to […]

In a bid to do away with a name criticized for having problematic connotations, the World Health Organization (WHO) is asking the public to weigh in on what the virus known as monkeypox should be called. A group of global experts convened by the WHO has created an open forum where the public can share […]

Renowned author Salman Rushdie is on a ventilator and may lose one eye as a result of the stabbing attack he suffered while delivering a lecture in New York on Friday. According to the author’s agent, Andrew Wylie, the 75-year-old Indian-born novelist is unable to speak after the attack, in which he was stabbed in […]

Democrats have notched their biggest victory since taking full control of Washington 19 months ago. The November fragrance of their late political bloom remains to be seen. Every House Democrat on Friday evening gave final approval, along party lines, to a health care, climate and tax bill, delivering on a key campaign promise of Joe Biden’s […]

Fadi Chehadé is co-CEO of Ethos Capital and was recently honored by the Carnegie Corporation of New York as a Great Immigrant. He served as a fellow at both the Harvard and Oxford schools of government.   Two years ago, an explosion 40 times bigger than Chernobyl rocked the radiant Mediterranean city of Beirut, destroying […]

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Margaux Demoulin, a 26-year-old veterinarian, is fed up. She’s been in the job for only two years — after training for six — and she’s already been thinking of quitting. Her dream job is turning into a nightmare. With overbearing pet owners, death threats on social media, work overload and little pay, Belgium’s vets say […]