Detectives in Kasarani arrested a police officer in connection with the attempted murder of a man in a shooting incident that was reported earlier in Nairobi. The suspect, a corporal of police is attached to the Administration Police Service’s SGB Unit and is currently deployed as a driver to Livestock Principal Secretary Jonathan Mueke. According to police, detectives from the Directorate of Criminal Investigations (DCI) in Kasarani apprehended the officer on Sunday as part of investigations into the shooting of Hillary Kibet. A search conducted after the arrest led to the recovery of a Ceska pistol loaded with 13 rounds…
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Vice President JD Vance and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Dan Caine both raised concerns about escalating the war in Iran as President Donald Trump weighed the possibility during a White House meeting on Friday, a source familiar with the matter and a US official told CNN. On Friday night, the US appeared to pause its bombing campaign on Iran after nearly two weeks of consecutive nights of strikes. Operations are “on a hold,” a Department of Defense source told CNN on Saturday. On Friday, Caine specifically raised concerns about the US munitions stockpile and other potential…
Rep. Seth Moulton, a frequent critic of the old guard of Democratic leadership in Congress, is now taking on one of his party’s progressive stalwarts. The 47-year-old is running to unseat 80-year-old Sen. Ed Markey, who has represented Massachusetts in Congress since before Moulton was born. Markey, a longtime champion of progressive causes, said he is more energized than ever to fight back against the Trump administration. But Moulton warns there’s a risk in letting the party’s most senior members lead that fight. “The reality is that if we win the United States Senate, it’ll probably be by one vote.…
Five months after President William Ruto and Nairobi Governor Sakaja Johnson signed a landmark cooperation agreement at State House, the ambitious partnership is beginning to reshape Kenya’s capital through a series of large-scale infrastructure and service delivery projects. Signed on February 17 under Section 6 of the Urban Areas and Cities Act, the agreement unlocked an additional Sh80 billion for Nairobi, allowing the National and County governments to jointly implement priority development programmes. At the time, the pact sparked political debate and public concern, with some critics fearing it would mirror the controversial transfer of key county functions to the…
Interior and National Administration Cabinet Secretary Kipchumba Murkomen has ordered the immediate transfer of all police officers stationed at Keringet Police Station in Nakuru County as the government intensifies its crackdown on drug and substance abuse. Speaking during a public baraza in Keringet, Murkomen said officers who have served at the station for extended periods and are suspected of colluding with illicit alcohol traders or engaging in alcohol abuse will be removed, taken through rehabilitation programmes and subjected to disciplinary action. “All police officers who have been here for a long time and have been drinking will be taken to…
Eight people, including six children, were found dead in a Michigan home after a fire, some with gunshot wounds, law enforcement said Friday. Police and fire authorities responded just before noon to a house fire in Grand Haven Township, on the eastern shore of Lake Michigan. When they went inside, they found the bodies, Capt. Jacob Sparks of the Ottawa County Sheriff’s Office said at an evening news conference. Sparks said authorities had not fully identified all the victims yet and do not have an official cause of death for them. The children’s ages ranged from 5 to 15, he…
India’s education minister said Saturday he had resigned in a major victory foryoung protesters, whose spiraling demonstrations have presented a rare and growing challenge to the government of Prime Minister Narendra Modi. Protesters have been calling for accountability after allegations entrance exams to esteemed medical schools had been leaked and sold, with the unrest led by a youth campaign known as the Cockroach Janta Party (CJP). Dharmendra Pradhan announced his resignation on Saturday, bowing to mounting pressure after tens of thousands of students and supporters took to the streets demanding his removal and sweeping reforms to India’s examination system. Modi…
US President Donald Trump took swipes at the media at the White House Correspondents’ Association (WHCA) dinner, a night celebrating press freedom, after the first event was cancelled by a shooting three months ago. The president sat as reporters from outlets he has sparred with and even sued, including the New York Times, CNN and the Wall Street Journal, came up to be honoured with awards. Typically the president takes a lighter-hearted tone at the annual dinner, and Trump joked “the second time is always better” and praised the media – saying he respects “most of them”. But the tone…
United States President Donald Trump said LeBron James might be “a racist” when asked if the basketball star is the “best ever” to play the sport. James, 41, announced on Friday he is set to continue his glittering career with the Philadelphia 76ers. When asked about the move in a White House news conference later, Trump explained why he believed Michael Jordan was the better player. Jordan, 63, won six NBA titles with the Chicago Bulls in the 1990s and NBA Most Valuable Player (MVP) five times. When asked whether Jordan or James was the “best ever”, Trump said: “Michael…
Local audiences do not fact-check your color grade. They fact-check the corner. If a Reel invents a second stall, a stranger’s placard, or a shop sign that is not on that street, someone who walks there will reply with their own photo. I edit digital for a local desk, and when producers paste Seedance 3.0 headlines into the chat, that reply is still the nightmare — not “the AI looked synthetic,” but “the paper made something up.” That is why I stopped treating text-to-video as a shortcut for place-bound stories. I still open SeedVideo as an independent studio host when…
The Government has dismissed reports suggesting that the British Army Training Unit Kenya (BATUK) has ceased operations, affirming that defence cooperation between Kenya and the United Kingdom remains firmly in place. Prime Cabinet Secretary and Cabinet Secretary for Foreign and Diaspora Affairs Musalia Mudavadi said the Kenya–United Kingdom Defence Cooperation Agreement is currently undergoing the required parliamentary approval process and has not been terminated. In a statement, Mudavadi said the agreement is before the National Assembly’s Departmental Committee on Defence, Intelligence and Foreign Relations for consideration in line with Kenya’s constitutional and legislative requirements. “The Government therefore discounts claims suggesting…
The National Cohesion and Integration Commission (NCIC) has launched investigations into allegations of ethnic incitement against Cabinet Secretary Aden Duale following the circulation of remarks attributed to him on social media. In a statement on Friday, NCIC Chairman Bishop Dr. Kepha Nyamweya Omae said the Commission had received a formal complaint and that its Investigations Department had begun a thorough and impartial inquiry into the circumstances surrounding the alleged utterances. “The National Cohesion and Integration Commission acknowledges receipt of a complaint regarding alleged utterances by Cabinet Secretary Hon. Aden Duale. Our Investigations Department is conducting a thorough and impartial inquiry…
Deputy President Kithure Kindiki has assured the country that the government is taking necessary measures to reduce the impact of depressed rainfall that has impacted food production in some of the country’s food baskets. The DP said every possible intervention is being explored to cushion farmers from losses as well as to ensure there is no shortage of food supply to any part of the country. “I assure the country that the government is seized of the matter of what has happened this season and what is projected to happen later this year. We are taking all possible measures to…
Health Cabinet Secretary Aden Duale came under sharp criticism in the Senate on Thursday over remarks in a viral video that senators said could inflame ethnic tensions in the country. The senators were reacting to a widely circulated video in which Duale is alleged to have compared the Somali and Kikuyu communities by population before recounting what he described as historical discrimination against Somalis under previous administrations of Presidents Jomo Kenyatta, Mwai Kibaki and Uhuru Kenyatta. In the video, Duale, speaking in vernacular, credited President William Ruto with ending what he described as discriminatory practices. The issue was raised during…
Two Chinese academics have won the world’s top prize for mathematics for the first time, according to state media. Chinese mathematicians Hong Wang and Yu Deng won alongside John Pardon from the US and Jacon Tsimerman from Canada. They each won 15,000 Canadian dollars ($10,500; £8,000). Both won for solving problems that have baffled mathematicians for more than a century. And 35-year-old Wang, who teaches in the US and France, is only the third woman to receive the honour. The Fields Medal, regarded as the Nobel prize equivalent for mathematics, was handed out on Thursday in the US as human…