Around midnight there was an explosion along Bhutto’s route—according to early reports, from two bombs inside a police car. Bhutto was not wounded, but more than 100 bystanders were killed or injured. She was quickly whisked to the safety of her Karachi residence. It’s unclear who was reponsible for the blasts. A tribal militant, Baitullah Mahsud, had threatened to “welcome” her with violence. Islamists have been angered by her outspokenly pro-U....
Anatomy The biceps is one of four muscles alongside the brachialis, brachioradialis, and coracobrachialis muscles that make up the upper arm. The biceps muscle is comprised of two heads. At each end are connective tissues called tendons that anchor the muscles to bone. The long head originates from a cavity in the scapula called the glenoid. It passes through the shoulder joint to the upper arm through a groove in the humerus (the large bone of the upper arm)....
A group of unidenitified investors is planning to submit a formal offer to buy the franchise by the end of next week, according to the Pittsburgh Business Times. The size of the stake and other details regarding the possible bid are not known. MORE: Blackhawks’ Stanley Cup adventures | Source: NHL expansion application fee $10 million, not $1 million Mario Lemieux and co-owner Ron Burkle announced early last month they retained investment firm Morgan Stanley to oversee strategic options....
The manufacturing sector has not only recovered the 1.3 million jobs it lost at the start of the pandemic, it has also added tens of thousands of new jobs since Biden took office, driven by a shift in consumer spending from travel and other services to durable goods. Biden and Congressional Democrats are leaning on this economic success story to make their closing arguments ahead of the midterm elections, claiming the American Rescue Plan, infrastructure law, legislation boosting the U....
Employees at Walt Disney World Resort in Florida are no longer required to be vaccinated against COVID-19—a move that comes after DeSantis signed four bills into law requiring businesses to provide exemptions to vaccine mandates. White House press secretary Jen Psaki took aim at DeSantis, a Republican, following Disney’s decision in comments delivered aboard Air Force One on Monday. “I think the Disney piece is important to differentiate because, as they’re based in Florida and, obviously, the governor there has consistently taken steps to take steps backward, as it relates to fighting the pandemic, not forward,” Psaki said....
U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken kept up pressure on the Kremlin Sunday to pull back on the extremely tight security measures and police crackdowns which are intended to quash pro-Navalny protests across the country’s 11 time zones. “The U.S. condemns the persistent use of harsh tactics against peaceful protesters and journalists by Russian authorities for a second week straight,” Blinken tweeted Sunday. “We renew our call for Russia to release those detained for exercising their human rights, including Aleksey Navalny....
“It gives us some breathing room from the catastrophic default we were approaching because of Senator [Mitch] McConnell’s decision to play politics with our economy,” spokesperson Karine Jean-Pierre told reporters aboard Air Force One. But the administration is still calling for a permanent solution to the issue, warning that another “possibly devastating showdown” awaits lawmakers if Mitch McConnell and Senate Republicans continue to obstruct. “We want to remove this cloud from over our economy as soon as possible because each day we draw closer risks and accidental default we draw closer risks and accidental default,” Jean-Pierre said, adding, “That’s why we’ve been pushing for a simple up and down vote and we will continue to do so....
The Associated Press is reporting that the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) is leasing sales for oil and gas mining in states such as Wyoming, Colorado, Montana, Utah, Nevada, and New Mexico. The agency has scaled back leases in Wyoming and Montana due to potential impacts on vulnerable animal populations. Despite this, Wyoming still has roughly 280 square miles up for leasing. However, the BLM said that there is not much they can do to prevent climate change impacts from burning the fuels....
But the two have another historical distinction: Their pairing marks the first time since 1984 that the Democratic ticket hasn’t had an Ivy League graduate. Biden double majored in history and political science and received his Bachelor of Arts (BA) from the University of Delaware in Newark in 1965. He received his Doctor of Jurisprudence (JD) from Syracuse University in New York state in 1968. Harris double-majored in political science and economics and got her BA from Howard University in 1986 and her JD from the University of California, Hastings College of the Law in San Francisco in 1989....
“Look, this is not about red states and blue states,” Biden said. “It’s literally about life and death.” Incentives include using the American Rescue Plan to expand paid leave for employees who need to get their family members vaccinated, asking school districts to hold a pop-up vaccination clinic for students in the coming weeks, and calling on states, territories, and local governments to offer $100 to people who get vaccinated....
The president’s approval rating was 44.1 percent, while 50.9 percent of Americans disapproved of Biden. That comes after a number of polls were conducted in early January. The last time Biden had approval of 44.1 percent in FiveThirtyEight’s analysis was on October 19, 2021, when the share of Americans who disapproved of the president was 49.9 percent. FiveThirtyEight analyzes a large number of polls from reputable polling companies and uses its own system of pollster ratings....
Unfortunately, Biden’s Inaugural Address took a wrong historical turn by endorsing progressives’ regressive interpretation of America’s past. “Our history,” he claimed, “has been a constant struggle between the American ideal that we are all created equal and the harsh, ugly reality that racism, nativism, fear, demonization have long torn us apart.” This stick-figure history minimizes America’s remarkable advances against racism—many of which Democrats should boast about. It hasn’t been perennial trench warfare between competing forces: It’s been a rout, with the forces of liberty and equality occasionally facing racist resistance, which they keep overcoming decisively....
Biden is ahead in the key swing states of Georgia and Pennsylvania, his lead widening as more absentee mailing ballots are counted from the urban and suburban Democratic strongholds of both states. Losing either would mean that Trump cannot reach the 270 electoral college votes needed to secure his second term in office. But the Trump campaign is resorting to conspiracy theories and litigation to try and stop Biden’s victory....
“Today and every day, I want every member of the LGBTQ+ community to know that you are loved and accepted just the way you are—regardless of whether or not you’ve come out,” Biden said. Elsewhere in the statement, the president said, “Despite the extraordinary progress our nation has made, our work to ensure the full promise of equality is not yet done. Anti-LGBTQ+ bills still proliferate in state legislatures.”...
Psaki was asked in a press conference about the comments Biden made in his prime time address on Thursday, in which the president condemned “vicious hate crimes” on the Asian American community and called for them to stop. Biden was widely praised for his sentiments, with Rep. Ted Lieu (D-CA) tweeting his appreciation of Biden’s “strong words to protect Americans of Asian descent.” “This is in stark contrast to the former President who made racist remarks like ‘Kung Flu’ that inflamed prejudices against Asian Americans,” Lieu added....
However, through his first couple of years in office, President Biden has been anything but the unifying figure he promised to be. According to Pew Research statistics, polarization has continued to worsen during the Biden presidency. While this is certainly not all Biden’s doing, he has more than done his part to widen the divide between Americans. On Thursday, Biden gave a campaign-like speech in which he attacked his political opponents from the grounds of a national park with Marines posted behind him....
Yet despite the urgent nature of the crisis, the administration continues to do virtually nothing about it. It is constrained in large measure by the antipathy of the Democratic Party base toward enforcement of existing immigration laws, and the president’s own clear intention to loosen efforts to stop illegal border crossings and deport those who are in the country illegally. Resuming work on a border wall associated with his predecessor is out of the question....
The poll, which was conducted by Redfield & Wilton Strategies, found Biden leading Trump in Arizona, Florida, Pennsylvania, Michigan and Wisconsin. According to the poll, Biden’s largest lead comes in Michigan, as 50 percent of respondents said they’d vote for the former vice president on the November 3 election, while 38 percent sided with Trump. In Michigan, the poll surveyed 812 likely voters in Michigan from August 16 to August 19 and has a margin of error of plus or minus 3....
Wisconsin is considered a must-win state for Trump. Although Wisconsin had consistently voted for Democratic presidential candidates since 1988, Trump pulled out a victory in the state during his first presidential campaign. In 2016, Trump carried the state by less than 1 percentage point. Both Trump and Biden have visited Wisconsin since the shooting of Jacob Blake in August by police officers in the city of Kenosha. If the election were held today, a majority of Wisconsin’s likely voters would cast their ballots for Biden....
Biden campaigned heavily on his ability to control the pandemic and turn the economy around and months into his presidency he’s facing rising COVID-19 cases and disappointing job reports. While Democrats are largely standing behind the president, he’s facing opposition from independents and Republicans and his declining poll numbers could spell trouble for the president’s party in the midterms. A poll from ABC News and Ipsos released on Wednesday found Biden’s handling of the COVID-19 pandemic his strongest issue among voters with 57 percent approval....
