Man charged with attempted assassination of Donald Trump at Florida golf course – US politics live
25 Sep
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Man charged with attempted assassination of Donald Trump at Florida golf course – US politics live

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Politics tamfitronics Politics tamfitronics Prosecutors charge Ryan Routh with attempted assassinationProsecutors filed a charge of attempted assassination against Ryan Routh, whom investigators said had camped out, armed, near Trump’s golf course for about 12 hours, before being confronted by a Secret Service agent, the AP reports.Routh was previously charged with two gun offenses.Judge Aileen Cannon, the Trump appointee who oversaw and threw out the federal classified documents case against him, was randomly assigned to oversee this case as well, according to CNN.The charges for Routh come on the same day that lawmakers approved a bill that will give presidential candidates equal security protection as the sitting president, following two assassination attempts against Trump.Donald Trump was in Georgia, for a speech billed as discussing his policies on manufacturing and taxation. He talked about tariffs and promised...
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Francis Ford Coppola Compares Fall of Rome to Current American Politics: “Lost Its Republic and Ended Up With an Emperor”
24 Sep
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Francis Ford Coppola Compares Fall of Rome to Current American Politics: “Lost Its Republic and Ended Up With an Emperor”

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Politics tamfitronics Francis Ford Coppola got political while discussing his new film Megalopolis on Monday, suggesting that the upcoming presidential election may mirror the downfall of Rome. At a conversation as part of the New York Film Festival — which was also streamed to 65 theaters across the U.S. and Canada with support from Imax — Coppola was joined by Robert De Niro and Spike Lee to talk about his long journey to making “a Roman epic set in modern America as Rome,” as he described it. The film follows a conflict between Cesar (played by Adam Driver), a genius artist who seeks to leap into a utopian future, and his opposition Mayor Franklyn Cicero (Giancarlo Esposito), who remains committed to a regressive status quo. “People always said to me, ‘Why do you want to...
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A medley of culture: from the bush war and circumcision to a white girl from Zimbabwe

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Politics tamfitronics Sunday Times senior journalists Hendrik Hancke and Gill Gifford and digital lifestyle editor Thango Ntwasa tackle heritage and identity politics 24 September 2024 - 06:00 By HENDRIK HANCKE, Thango Ntwasa and GILL GIFFORD My heritage is a complex and difficult matter to nail down. On the one hand, I am a product of war, while being a member of the first generation of my family never to fight in a war. When I was born, my dad was in Angola fighting in the bush war. Some of the earliest pictures of me as a little boy show...
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Our national soap opera
24 Sep
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Our national soap opera

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Politics tamfitronics An undated picture of the Parliament House building in Islamabad. — Senate website/FilePakistani politics is full of twists and turns like a smash-hit soap opera. The curtain falls on one thrilling episode and the next starts, promising to keep the audience on the edge of their seats. The envisaged constitutional amendment to, inter alia, raise the retirement age of the apex court judges is the latest episode of our national soap opera.Being the fundamental law of the land, the Constitution defines how a country is to be governed. It also defines the relationship between the three organs of the government — the executive, the legislature and the judiciary — between the central and provincial governments; and between the governors and the governed. That’s why all over the world, with the possible exception of...
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