Author: Press Room

Ethiopia’s Tigray rebels say Eritrea has extended its offensive into their region, as diplomats scramble to convene peace talks to resolve the almost two-year-long conflict.In a statement Monday, the Tigray forces said that Eritrea’s military has launched an “extensive offensive” in the direction of Rama, Zalambessa and Tserona towns in northeastern Tigray. They called on Tigray’s population to “further intensify their campaign of self-defense.”Communications to the areas affected by the fighting are down. The Associated Press was unable to verify the Tigray forces’ claims.AIRSTRIKE IN ETHIOPIA’S TIGRAY REGION KILLS AT LEAST 5Hostilities between the Tigray forces and Ethiopia’s federal government…

Austria is taking the European Union to court over plans to characterize natural gas and nuclear power generation as sustainable energies amid efforts to fight climate change.The Austrian government on Friday filed a lawsuit with the EU’s top court over the classification used to define clean energy resources. The EU’s executive Commission plans to add certain nuclear and gas plants next year to a list that helps investors determine which projects are sustainable.Austria’s environment minister, Leonore Gewessler, warned that the measure could “greenwash” nuclear power and gas despite the environmental damage they cause.CHARLES PAYNE: BIDEN TURNS TO VENEZUELA AS EUROPE…

FIRST ON FOX: Republican Arizona Senate nominee Blake Masters and Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., are set to headline an event this Friday addressing issues related to national security just weeks ahead of the November midterm elections.The event, hosted by former Trump administration State Department spokesperson Morgan Ortagus and her national security advocacy organization POLARIS National Security, will be held in Scottsdale, Arizona and will include former Acting Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Chad Wolf.Speaking with Fox News Digital, Ortagus explained that the event would include an hour-long discussion with Masters, Wolf and Graham, and would be an opportunity for…

Vice President Kamala Harris said on Saturday that “nobody should have to go to jail for smoking weed,” despite the fact that she oversaw nearly 2,000 convictions for pot-related offenses.While speaking in Austin, Texas, over the weekend, Harris touched on President Biden’s pardon of individuals with federal charges of simple possession of marijuana.”We are also changing, y’all might have heard that this week, the federal government’s approach to marijuana,” Harris said on Saturday.BLOWING SMOKE: KELLYANNE CONWAY AND MARK PENN ON BIDEN’S WEED PARDON BEING ‘TIMED FOR THE ELECTION’ “Because the bottom line there is: Nobody should have to go to…

A New York school district superintendent who crowd surfed among students at a high school football game on Friday night was arrested shortly afterward on suspicion of drunken driving and charged with DWI, police said.Police say Baldwinsville Central School District Superintendent Jason D. Thomson, 48, was seen reveling in the student section at Baker High School in Baldwinsville, about 13 miles northwest of Syracuse. Photos and videos of Thomson crowd surfing have circulated on social media and local news outlets.Thomson’s actions at the game drew attention to himself and put him on law enforcement’s radar, Baldwinsville police said in a…

Washington CNN  —  First, former President Donald Trump tried a false claim about the document-handling practices of former President Barack Obama. Now, Trump is making the same false claim about other former presidents. In August, after the FBI recovered classified documents and numerous other presidential records from Trump’s Mar-a-Lago residence and resort in Florida, Trump declared that Obama had taken millions of presidential documents to Chicago. The National Archives and Records Administration quickly debunked his assertion, explaining it was NARA itself, not Obama, that took the documents to a NARA-managed facility in the Chicago area. Then, at a rally in…

Jessica Zabel shut the door on her breast cancer returning when she chose to have a preventive double mastectomy, but another nightmare was just beginning.She started to feel constant pain on her rib cage under her armpit. It was on the side of one of her reconstructed breasts, but felt different from surgical pain or the pain from a broken bone.“I just felt like I was on fire, like someone was holding a torch to my skin. Nothing made it better, and even just my clothes touching me was just unbearable,” Zabel, 39, who lives in Jupiter, Florida, told TODAY.“The…

Filming on season two of HBO Max’s And Just Like That…, the Sex and the City sequel series, has officially begun. Details on the next phase of Carrie’s journey are under wraps, but thankfully, the show’s costume department has taken to sharing tantalizing sneak peeks of Carrie’s fashion on Instagram this upcoming season. A new on-set photo, released on Monday, shows Sarah Jessica Parker, who plays the iconic character, wearing a very on-trend head-to-toe pink—or, to be more precise, fuschia—look.The outfit is sophisticated and polished. In the photo, the perennial It Girl wears a vintage dress and purse, paired with…

Source: YouTube

The Philadelphia Phillies removed the interim manager tag from Rob Thomson and signed him to a two-year extension as the team gets ready for its National League Division Series against the Atlanta Braves.Philadelphia made the announcement Monday, days after the team swept the St. Louis Cardinals in the best-of-three National League wild-card round. “As time progressed, it became apparent that Rob was the right person to lead this team and our club’s on-field performance over the course of the season certainly reinforced that,” Phillies president of baseball operations David Dombrowski said in a statement.”His calm demeanor and ability to communicate…