A letter with a death threat and two 9-millimeter caliber bullets in the envelope. The message could not be more forceful. Even in the digital age, there is a difference between a cold email and a physical package with two real bullets. The warning gains greater credibility. The mobsters prefer the classic.
In the environment created by Donald Trump’s presidency, the saying “last one is a fool” is fitting.
A powerful 7.4 magnitude earthquake shook the coast of the southern Mexican state of Chiapas on Friday, triggering a tsunami alert and causing tremors in buildings in the neighboring countries of Guatemala and El Salvador.
The White House has suspended the operator of Donald Trump’s teleprompter amid suspicions that he was using his position to place bets on the speeches of the US president on the prediction platform Kalshi.
Conversations on a stairwell of neighbors in the Upper West Side of Manhattan. One of the residents made this comment when leaving the elevator. “When I left the office, on the street it seemed to me that we were in the apocalypse, the sky had a strange color, leaning towards brown,” he said.
When the Prime Minister of Hungary, Péter Magyar, took office on May 9, he uttered a phrase about his electoral victory that underpins his current actions and plans for the future. According to Magyar, in the general elections of April 12 – in which he overwhelmingly defeated the previous Prime Minister, Viktor Orbán – “the Hungarians expressed that they want changes, not just a change of government, but of the system.”
Donald Trump’s campaign to discredit the integrity of the crucial midterm legislative elections in November has taken off. After years of sowing doubts about mail-in voting, alleged voter fraud by undocumented immigrants, widespread rigging of counting machines, and a Democratic conspiracy to end democracy, without conclusive evidence according to the judiciary, last night the president gave a prime-time speech to the nation that will further fuel his supporters’ distrust in the election results.
The Trump administration is going to eliminate a policy in place for decades that allowed international students, participants in cultural exchange programs, and journalists to stay in the United States for the time necessary to complete their activity: from now on they will have a limit of four years (240 days for journalists) after which those affected will be forced to request an extension from the federal government.
There are political supports that can be uncomfortable and even poisoned. That is the impression in France, always jealous of its sovereignty, after the American magnate Elon Musk enthusiastically expressed his preference for Marine Le Pen in next year’s presidential election.
Just when the wind seems to be blowing in favor of Ukraine in the war, Volodymyr Zelensky has shot himself in the foot with a political move that has sparked popular outrage.