After months of gamesmanship and speculation, JD Vance has emerged as Donald Trump’s 2024 running mate and the heir apparent to the America First movement. With less than two years in Congress under his belt, the first-term senator from Ohio has very little experience in politics, let alone conducting foreign policy. Yet Vance represents a clear departure from the Ronald Reagan-era foreign policy views that characterised Trump’s previous vice president, Mike Pence. Pence spent much of his time in office making trips to reassure US allies and partners overseas, delivering speeches aimed at providing strategic clarity to Trump’s often unpredictable…
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Roughly 6 in 10 voters describe both Biden and Trump as ‘embarrassing’ Former President Donald Trump was in Philadelphia for a campaign rally on June 22, roughly three weeks after President Joe Biden held one in the same city May 29. (From left: Anna Moneymaker and Andrew Harnik, both Getty Images) Pew Research Center conducted this study to understand Americans’ views of the 2024 presidential election campaign. For this analysis, we surveyed 9,424 adults – including 7,729 registered voters – from July 1-7, 2024. Everyone who took part in this survey is a member of the Center’s American Trends Panel…
GUAYNABO, PR – A U.S. Department of Labor investigation has recovered $238,746 in overtime wages owed to 1,024 solar panel and system installers employed by a renewable energy company in Puerto Rico that failed to include various bonuses in their salaries and calculated overtime wages incorrectly.The department’s Wage and Hour Division determined that Windmar Home/Windmar P.V. Energy Inc.’s actions caused a significant shortfall in the employees’ wages and violated the overtime requirements of the Fair Labor Standards Act. In a settlement agreement with the division, the employer agreed to pay the back overtime wages and to future FLSA compliance.“Our investigators identified that more…
For a brief window of time, the Parliament — generally considered the weakest of the EU’s main institutions — is vital for von der Leyen, the most powerful leader of an EU institution: She needs to convince at least 361 MEPs to vote for her to get a second five-year term at the helm of the European Commission, in a vote scheduled for 1 p.m. Thursday in Parliament’s Strasbourg base. In the negotiations von der Leyen has been holding with MEPs, including in ‘t Veld’s own liberal Renew Europe group, MEPs should not be focusing that much on legislation, but…
Further information AMAZE: advanced MOF-loaded air-pollution control and zero-emission electrospun filters NanoLayr UK Limited Over 34 billion tonnes of CO2 are emitted into the atmosphere annually worldwide, 73.2% from the energy sector by burning fossil fuels. CO2 is a greenhouse gas and contributes to global warming, which is why the UK government as part of the Net Zero UN Coalition have set a target for all sectors to decarbonise to reach net zero targets by 2050. The AMAZE project will produce a high-volume commercial filtration media that will capture CO2 at the point of source. Offering a game-changing innovation to…
Helicopters draw a lot of attention with their almost magical ability to hover, fly in any direction and operate without runways. They also help save many lives, often dramatically, with their extensive use in all-weather military missions, ambulance duties and search-and-rescue roles. When things go wrong, dramatic images and news stories about helicopter accidents grab the public’s attention. This is especially true when high-profile celebrities or government officials are involved. However, modern rotorcraft are safe. Each year, the U.S. commercial helicopter industry flies about 3 million flight hours. There were 0.77 fatal accidents per 100,000 flight hours on average from…
UKEF provides competitive financing to British companies to trade internationally and to overseas buyers of UK goods and services to facilitate access to the UK’s high-quality supply chain. The delegation consists of Emma Thomas, Co-Head of Global Business Origination George Hames, Regional Head of Business Origination for the Americas and Gerson Pérez, Country Head for Central America, and the Dominican Republic. The delegation will meet with senior representatives of government agencies, the private sector, and regional finance institutions. Amongst these, the Ministry of Finance, the National Agency of Alliances for the Development of Infrastructure (ANADIE), the Construction Chamber and the…
The text of the following statement was released by the G7 Foreign Ministers of Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, the United Kingdom and the United States of America and the High Representative of the European Union. Begin Text: We, the G7 Foreign Ministers of Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, the United Kingdom and the United States of America and the High Representative of the EU, join the UN and the European Union in condemning the announcement by Finance Minister of Israel Smotrich that five outposts are to be legalized in the West Bank. We also reject the decision by the Government of Israel to…
Chinstrap penguins are members of Antarctica’s brush-tailed group of penguins. They’re easily identified by the feature that gives them their name – a black strap that runs from ear to ear below the chin. The species is found mostly in the Western Antarctic Peninsula region, on far-flung isles such as the South Shetland Islands, the South Sandwich Islands and the South Orkney Islands. Chinstrap penguins are highly specialised predators, feeding on marine crustaceans called Antarctic krill. The birds are still very abundant (estimates suggest there are between 3 million and 4 million breeding pairs). But many of their colonies are…
Information and communication technologies (ICTs) hold great potential to expand African economies. They include mobile banking platforms, internet-enabled communication devices and e-government services. All of these can enhance financial inclusion and improve services for citizens. Kenya’s mobile money transfer platform, M-Pesa, for instance, has given millions of people access to banking services. And Rwanda’s e-government platform has streamlined public service delivery for its citizens. Mobile phones have given more people access to the internet. There were 63.94 million active cellular mobile connections in Kenya at the start of 2023, against a population of 50 million. But the digital divide continues…