In an interview with Russian state television late Wednesday, Russian President Vladimir Putin suggested — counterintuitively — that Joe Biden winning the 2024 election would be better for Russia than a second term for Donald Trump, as Biden is “a more experienced person, he is predictable, he is a politician of an old formation.”
In the same breath, the Russian leader also condemned the current administration, describing the White House’s position on Ukraine as “extremely harmful and erroneous. Read More...
During my misspent youth in London writing a novel that was later hailed by critics as "unreadable," I lived near Robert Louis Stevenson's house. Being a Stevenson fan, I would go out of my way every day to walk up to the house and fist-bump it. The current owner didn't see eye to eye with me on this, and would whisk open the curtains to give me a cold stare — the British equivalent of coming outside and setting me on fire. Read More...
Montgomery County’s school board and a former principal accused of sexual harassment and bullying have agreed to pay a teacher $300,000 to settle a lawsuit filed against them, the teacher’s attorney said Friday.
Joel Beidleman was a principal in the Montgomery County Public Schools district when reports by The Washington Post described widespread allegations against the educator going back to 2016. He was put on administrative leave in August, and the district said in January that he no longer worked for the system. Read More...
