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One year into his first term in Congress, Senator Eric Schmitt, Republican of Missouri, has sought to find his lane while learning how multilayered relationships in Washington can be. Mr. Schmitt, a towering figure at 6-foot-6, is a hard-right conservative and staunch defender of former President Donald J. Trump. He …

Football’s controversial handball rules are once again in the spotlight after former Socceroos keeper Andrew Redmayne was controversially red-carded in an A-League clash. Redmayne was sent off just 15 minutes into Sydney FC‘s clash against Macarthur after referees adjudged him to have handled the ball. As Macarthur made an attacking …

In a swift response, Israel conducted a significant air assault on Gaza, resulting in the tragic loss of hundreds of Palestinian lives. Joining the conversation, many African nations have unanimously urged both Israel and Palestine to embrace peace, even though their reactions showed a spectrum of viewpoints. The reactions from …

Tigst Assefa’s world-record run was not yet complete, but the debate had already exploded. As the Ethiopian hurtled through the Brandenburg Gate with some 300 metres remaining in Sunday’s Berlin Marathon, the multibillion-dollar controversy that is the “super shoe” era was already raging. Assefa crashed through the finishing tape and …

Thursday’s action was in some sense a mirror image of what Democrats faced during the Trump presidency. For months, top Democrats tried to hold off impeachment charges against Mr. Trump, toiling to avoid plunging into what then-Speaker Nancy Pelosi thought would be a divisive and politically perilous exercise. But in …

WASHINGTON — House Republicans, intent on pressing ahead with their top campaign promises on immigration, turned a hearing with Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro N. Mayorkas into an impeachment-focused interrogation and formally debated restrictive border security legislation on Wednesday, despite significant G.O.P. opposition that could kill both initiatives on the House …

Former President Olusegun Obasanjo has said that the 2023 general election was a show of shame and that he is too old to keep quiet and not talk about it.   Obasanjo said this at an event in Abuja on Thursday, April 5.  He described the election outcome as a …

Former Emir of Kano, Muhammadu Sanusi has said that Nigeria has not been this divided since the end of the civil war.   The former CBN governor spoke on Tuesday, April 4, at the third Nigerian Leadership Colloquium in honour of the senior pastor of Trinity House, Lagos, Ituah Ighodalo, …

They are the last survivors of an international crisis that hobbled Jimmy Carter’s presidency and may have cost him re-election. Many are now in their 80s. With the former president gravely ill in hospice care, some of the 52 Americans who were held hostage in Iran for 444 days are …

To respond to Mr. Biden’s address, G.O.P. officials have selected Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders of Arkansas, the former White House press secretary under President Donald J. Trump, who made clear she planned to use her platform to highlight “the failures of President Biden,” as she put it in a statement. …