As their public spat intensifies, California Governor Gavin Newsom has accused Donald Trump of having dementia. The dig by Newsom, viewed as a potential Democratic presidential candidate, comes after Trump repeated a string of widely-debunked assertions about help sent to Los Angeles during the catastrophic wildfires in January. In a cabinet meeting, the 79-year-old president said the federalContinue reading “Gavin Newsom Suggests Trump Has Dementia”
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Traveller’s Plaque At Washington & Lee University Is Taken Down Despite The College’s Name Still Featuring The Confederate General
Virginia’s Washington & Lee University has pulled down a commemorative plaque honouring the horse of Confederate General Robert E Lee, whom the school is still partly named after. The plaque commemorating Traveller, placed over the horse’s gravesite, was removed from its place outside Lee Chapel, which is a National Historic Landmark as part of aContinue reading “Traveller’s Plaque At Washington & Lee University Is Taken Down Despite The College’s Name Still Featuring The Confederate General”
As 9/11 Nears Its 20th Anniversary
This Saturday is the 20th anniversary of 9/11, one of the darkest days in American history. To mark the event, President Joe Biden will travel to Ground Zero in New York where the Twin Towers were demolished, to Virginia where a plane was flown into the Pentagon, and to a field in Shanksville, Pennsylvania whereContinue reading “As 9/11 Nears Its 20th Anniversary”