Las Vegas — It took close to 30 years for someone to be arrested in the drive-by murder of rap legend Tupac Shakur, an extraordinary stretch that turned the young singer’s 1996 killing into the stuff of legend and conspiracy.
By contrast, it took less than three hours for a jury of 12 Clark County, Nevada, residents to convict Duane “Keffe D” Davis, a former leader in the South Side Compton Crips, of first-degree murder – less time than the closing statements in the trial took.
Full SummaryIran's newly deployed Kheibar Shekan "Castle Breaker" ballistic missile, with a 900‑mile range and maneuverable warhead, has reportedly penetrated U.S. defenses and caused significant damage to American bases and allied infrastructure across the Persian Gulf during the six‑month war with the United States and Israel.
Prime Minister Mark Carney is overhauling the leadership of the federal agency responsible for attracting foreign investment just weeks before a high-profile summit aimed at doing just that
Carney announced Monday that Dominic Barton, the former Canadian ambassador to China and a well-known name in corporate Canada, will chair the board of directors for Invest in Canada.
Roughly one in four U.S. businesses plan to shrink their product offerings over the next six months, according to a survey by the British Standards Institution.
“Enough! Enough with the false and dangerous weaponization of charges of antisemitism,” their open letter reads in response to Paramount’s comments
The Declaration of Independence of 1776 was, among other things, the colonists’ counter to the Royal Proclamation of 1763. The declaration, written by Thomas Jefferson, only referenced London’s effort to partition North America obliquely, complaining that King George III incited “the inhabitants of our frontiers, the merciless Indian Savages” to wage war on settlers. But two years earlier, Jefferson, in one of his first political tracts, had clearly condemned the Crown’s effort to restrict migration. “America was conquered,” Jefferson wrote in “A Summary View of the Rights of British America,” by its settlers,
"at the expense of individuals, and not of the British public. Their own blood was spilt in acquiring lands for the settlement, their own fortunes expended in making that settlement effectual; for themselves they fought, for themselves they conquered, and for themselves alone they have right to hold."
Most Americans think of themselves as “working class” today: Overall, 60% of U.S. adults say the term describes them well. And the identity is widely adopted by people across all income and educational groups – including half of both Americans who have a bachelor’s degree and those who are upper income.
LEAWOOD, Kansas — The Senate map is less complicated than it appears. As with every modern presidential campaign, it runs through the Midwest. If Democrats flip Republican-held seats in Ohio and Iowa while retaining Michigan, they will almost certainly net the four seats total needed to take control of the Senate for President Donald Trump’s final two years.
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- US expected to hold 55% of partnership to produce 17 oil fields
- Full development to take more than 25 years, analysts say
- Experts, lawyers worried over legality, contract opacity
- US could gain access to a base of exportable crude output
