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When a pro-Trump mob laid siege to the US Capitol on January 6, 2021, several people died and scores were injured, including some 140 police officers. Windows were smashed. Desks were overturned. Faeces were smeared on the Capitol’s walls. But the a...

Recently, journalists and scholars have remarked on the double standards and racism embedded in US foreign policy. They point to the United States' swift denunciation of Russian atrocities in Ukraine, which have been described as shocking because th...

President George Washington, in his celebrated 1796 Farewell Address, cautioned that American democracy was fragile. “Cunning, ambitious, and unprincipled men will be enabled to subvert the power of the people and to usurp for themselves the reins of...

One of the ironies of Russia's war against Ukraine — ostensibly fought to prevent that nation from joining the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation — has been its impact on two of Europe’s traditionally neutral states, Finland and Sweden. On May 18, ju...

A pair of mass shootings perpetrated by disturbed young gunmen — one in Buffalo, the other in Uvalde, Texas — come in haunting succession. The repetition, the needless loss of life, the political gridlock easily give way to an exasperation bordering ...

Americans woke up on Wednesday morning feeling some combination of deep sadness and intense anger. The feeling was shared throughout the country. Americans are grieving. This is not a hunch from watching the interviews in Uvalde, Texas, or talking wi...

A judge cited “persuasive” evidence from lawyer Evatt Tamine about billionaire Robert Brockman’s ability to engage in “sophisticated furtive behaviour to conceal his actions” as a reason why the latter’s criminal trial should go ahead. United States ...

A lawyer accused of "wrongfully“ taking more than $28 million from a company linked to a Bermuda-based multibillion-dollar charitable trust has been ordered to pay it back. Evatt Tamine denies any wrongdoing in relation to the funds he transferred fr...

Saturday’s massacre of ten African-Americans in Buffalo by an allegedly avowed White supremacist tragically takes its place in the long history of American racial terrorism. Accused 18-year-old Payton Gendron drove 3½ hours from his home in Conklin, ...

Many commentators have labelled the racist ideology apparently behind the horrific attack in Buffalo on Saturday a conspiracy theory. It is easy to believe that such extremism is a product of our internet age, where conspiracies run rampant, hatred b...

A US Navy warship designed to fight pirates and to combat terrorist activity visited Bermuda last week. USS Sioux City, a Freedom class “littoral combat ship”, was in St George’s for rest and relaxation. She has been used for anti-drug activities an...

A sapling from the home of former United States President George Washington was planted in Bermuda yesterday as a symbol of the “enduring relationship” between the two countries. Charles Gosling, the Mayor of Hamilton, said that the Eastern Redbud ma...