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Vice President Kamala Harris on Friday slammed the special counsel report questioning President Biden's memory‚ and praised how "on top of it all" he was in responding to the Israel-Hamas war. The big picture: Harris' defense of her running mate comes amid fallout from Special counsel Robert Hur's report that described Biden as an "elderly man with a poor memory" whose handling of classified documents presented "serious risks to national...

Global cocoa prices have soared to record highs as bad weather batters harvests in the world’s main producing countries in West Africa.  New York cocoa prices surged to $5‚874 per ton on Thursday‚ a rise of more than 40 per cent since the start of the year. London cocoa futures meanwhile have more than doubled from a year ago‚ rising 7.3 per cent on Thursday to £4‚600 per ton.   The moves prompted a warning from chocolate maker Hershey that surging raw material prices will...

Kentucky moved closer to following the lead of several other states when a Senate committee approved a proposed constitutional amendment that would prevent non-U.S. citizens from voting. While Kentucky’s constitution says U.S.-citizens are eligible to vote‚ municipalities in other states‚ like New York City‚ have ruled noncitizens can vote because there is no law against non-citizen voting. Kentucky’s bill‚ sponsored by Sen. Jason Howell‚ R-Murray‚ would amend two sections of the state...

Over the past two weeks‚ Taylor Swift has made headlines dozens of times. Only one‚ maybe two of those instances have been because of something she actually did. Her music getting removed from TikTok? That was a disagreement between Universal Music Group and the app itself. Her songs getting boosted illegally? That was pirates. Explicit deepfakes of Swift? Blame 4chan. Conspiracy theories that Swift is a psyop? Those come from right-wing commentators. Swift...

President Biden arrived in the Diplomatic Reception Room on Thursday evening aiming to demonstrate that what the special prosecutor had written about him in a report released earlier that day — that Biden was a “well-meaning‚ elderly man with a poor memory” — was false. He was in command. He remembered. He was a president worth reelecting. “I am well-meaning‚ and I’m an elderly man‚ and I know what the hell I’m doing‚” declared Biden‚ who was‚ by turns‚ feisty‚ funny and sharp....

In a region overshadowed by China and North Korea‚ Washington has been keen to encourage the new cooperative spirit currently uniting Seoul and Tokyo‚ enabling the trilateralism U.S. defense planners have so long sought to project in the region. The voters in America’s two key East Asian allies‚ however‚ are far less pleased with their leaders these days. As both China and North Korea test American interests and allies across East Asia‚ the high hopes President Biden expressed at a...

What do Tucker Carlson and Pink Floyd co-founder Roger Waters have in common? According to social media posts‚ both have been targeted for inclusion on a "kill list" backed by the Ukrainian government. After Carlson‚ the former Fox News host‚ traveled to Moscow to interview Russian President Vladimir Putin‚ a Feb. 7 Instagram video claimed that "Ukraine puts Tucker Carlson on a ‘hit list’ after an interview with Vladimir Putin."

Trapped in and around Rafah‚ more than 1 million Palestinians braced for Israel to complete a plan to evacuate them and launch a ground assault against Hamas fighters in the southern Gaza city. Aid agencies warned that large numbers of civilians could die in the Israeli offensive and the U.N. Palestinian refugee agency said it did not know how long it could work "in such a high risk operation." "There is a sense of growing anxiety‚ growing panic in Rafah‚" said Philippe Lazzarini‚ the...