This is the 101st year of the national spelling competition, and the third time it's been decided by a rapid-fire "spell-off" since the practice was introduced in 2021
Hungary did it. The United States can, too.
"Very rough day, but we’ll rebuild whatever needs rebuilding and get back to flying," Jeff Bezos said.
The competition came down to a spell-off. Contestants were eliminated early, and a sixth grader became a crowd favorite.
At a ceremony in New Orleans on Thursday, a Midwestern fine-dining standout took the top spot.
Eight-count indictment said Mohammad Baqer Saad Dawood Al-Saadi worked as an operative of Kata’ib Hizballah and Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps.
For 70 years, American foreign policy has had to clean up the spies’ messes. The post The American Intelligence Services Keep Causing Unintended Consequences appeared first on The American Conservative .
Foreign Affairs The American Intelligence Services Keep Causing Unintended Consequences For 70 years, American foreign policy has had to clean up the spies’ messes. The Oracle of Apollo at Delphi pronounced Socrates the wisest among Athenians because he knew that he knew nothing, and acted and spoke accordingly. The Central Intelligence Agency and companion members of the intelligence community, in contrast, are intelligence dunces. They uniformly profess or presume to know what they don’t know about the political cultures, power dynamics, or public opinion in foreign countries. Thus, they chronically blunder in intervening or…Open
If you’ve ever said anything the British PM doesn’t like, he might not let you into his country. The post Two-Tier Keir Divides the United Kingdom appeared first on The American Conservative .
Takimag Two-Tier Keir Divides the United Kingdom If you’ve ever said anything the British PM doesn’t like, he might not let you into his country. TakiMag (Photo by Carl Court/Getty Images) It has become a real cliché to observe that the “United” Kingdom really isn’t very united at all anymore. So it proved on the weekend of 16 May, when a mass rally called “Unite the Kingdom ” (UTK) occurred in central London. Alarmed by this prospect, the embattled Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer immediately rushed onto television and declared the demo would be “divisive.” Divisive why? Because, in attempting…Open
The reality star–turned–mayoral candidate shows what a post-Trump GOP may be like. The post Spencer Pratt’s GOP appeared first on The American Conservative .
Politics Spencer Pratt’s GOP The reality star-turned–mayoral candidate shows what a post-Trump GOP may be like. A brash reality TV star is once again winning over Republican voters. Spencer Pratt, a former star of MTV’s The Hills, is expected to advance to the Los Angeles mayoral runoff against Karen Bass. Pratt is not gaining support either as a milquetoast RINO or as an economic populist. His campaign is a wildly entertaining attack on LA’s liberal elite, vagrants, and out-of-control crime. It addresses everyday issues voters face, but many politicians refuse to address, such as the homeless problem. While being a (minor)…Open
The tennis balls had "#StopTheGame" written on them