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The presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, Atiku Abubakar, and national leaders of the party are expected in Kano on Monday (today) to receive the Senator representing Kano Central, Ibrahim Shekarau, and his political associates back to the party. Shekarau had, in 2019, dumped the PDP for the All…

Midas List investor Garry Tan will be the next president of startup accelerator Y Combinator. Courtesy of Garry Tan Y Combinator has tapped an outsider as its next president—sort of. The storied Bay Area-based accelerator has chosen venture capitalist and Y Combinator alum Garry Tan to serve as the fourth…

Imee Marcos urges gov’t to conduct inventory on local white onions Senator Imee Marcos on Sunday urged the government to conduct a comprehensive inventory of local white onions to check the extent of a shortage caused by last summer’s lean harvest. Marcos said doing so would also help the government…

With a week to go before Notre Dame’s highly anticipated season opener at Ohio State, Notre Dame offensive coordinator Tommy Rees spent some time fielding questions after Saturday’s practice. Rees was expansive with some answers and more brief with others. Let’s start with the short responses, first. Can you run…

CARLISLE, Pa. (AP) — Pennsylvania GOP gubernatorial nominee Doug Mastriano, three years before retiring from the U.S. Army, posed in a Confederate uniform for a faculty photo at the Army War College. The photo, which Reuters said Friday it obtained after a request under the Freedom of Information Act, shows…

The State Department has announced plans to establish an Ambassador-at-Large for the Arctic region as NATO issued a warning over Russia's military sites in the area. Vedant Patel, the principal deputy spokesperson for State Department, said in the statement that the role will help advance U.S. policy in the Arctic,…

TORONTO — NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg warned Friday about Russia’s military buildup in the Arctic and China’s increasing interest in that part of the world. During a visit to Canada’s north, Stoltenberg said the shortest path to North America for Russian missiles and bombers is over the North Pole.…

NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg ended his trip to Canada's Arctic on Friday by underlining the threats to the region posed by both Russia and China. Standing alongside Prime Minister Justin Trudeau at one of the country's principal northern fighter jet bases in Cold Lake, Alta., Stoltenberg cited a list of actions Moscow has taken…

Franco Luna - Philstar.com August 25, 2022 | 4:19pm MANILA, Philippines — Senators on Thursday grilled executivess of the Budget and Education Departments on the procurement deals for entry-level laptops meant for public school teachers, which state auditors flagged for being "pricey" for their specifications.  The Commission on Audit flagged the…

U.S. Rep. Charlie Crist won Florida's Democratic gubernatorial primary on Tuesday, the AP reports. Crist edged out Nikki Fried, the state's agriculture commissioner, in a fight over who will take on Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) in November's general election. Why it matters: Crist previously served as Florida's Republican governor in…