Tampa state senator doesn’t rule out exploring USF president’s job
On the front page of last Friday’s La Gaceta, Tampa Bay’s trilingual newspaper, publisher Patrick Mantiega’s “As We Heard It” ...
In Controversial Shake-Up, Israeli Lawmakers Give Themselves More Power to Choose Judges
Benjamin Netanyahu, the Israeli prime minister, appears to have returned to the judicial overhaul that divided the country ...
The New York Times25d
He Was Once a Covert Taliban Operative. Now He’s the Friendly Taxman.
Abdul Qahar Ghorbandi, head of Afghanistan’s Taxpayers Services Directorate ... an enormous desk next to a black and white Taliban flag, Mr. Ghorbandi rides herd on hundreds of Afghan taxpayers ...
The New Yorker16d
The Last Time Pro-Palestinian Activists Faced Deportation
Mahmoud Khalil’s case is eerily similar to that of the L.A. Eight, in which a group of students were targeted, not because of ...
CounterPunch23d
Is This the Beginning or the End of a New Cold War?
Gorbachev had risen through the ranks of the Soviet Communist Party to become its General Secretary and Soviet Premier in March 1985, in the midst of the Soviet war in Afghanistan, and he didn’t ...
Kyiv Independent on MSN12d
Who is behind pro-Russian ‘Stop Zelensky’ demonstrations in Europe?
A group of eight people gathered for a photo-op protest on the city’s Dam Square holding placards that called for an end to ...
Trump gives campaign-style speech at Justice Department; Senate passes bill to avert government shutdown
Updates and the latest news as the Senate votes to avoid a government shutdown and Mehmet Oz faces his Senate confirmation hearing.
Opinion
Nepal: Where making a profit is a crime
With an average annual income of $315 per capita, Nepal is the second poorest country in Asia after Afghanistan and one of the ten poorest countries in the world. Poverty is clearly visible in the ...