Biden withdraws his re-election attempt and endorses Vice President Kamala Harris.
President Joe Biden’s decision to withdraw from the Democratic presidential nomination campaign in the United States has shattered political expectations. In a Sunday statement on his X account, Biden said, “I believe it is in the best interests of my party and the country for me to stand down and focus solely on fulfilling my duties as President for the remainder of my term.”
Shortly after, the president announced his support for Vice President Kamala Harris’ candidature. “My fellow Democrats, I have decided not to accept the nomination and will devote all of my energies to my duties as President for the remainder of my term.” My first decision as the party’s 2020 contender was to appoint Kamala Harris as Vice President. And it’s been the best decision I’ve ever made.
Today, I fully support and endorse Kamala as our party’s nominee this year. Democrats, it’s time to band together and defeat Trump. “Let’s do it,” Biden wrote on X.
The disclosures came after the 81-year-old president’s stuttering debate performance, which raised concerns among Democrats about his fitness for office and ability to overcome former President Donald Trump, who just escaped an assassination plot.
With only months until the November election, Biden’s retirement puts the Democrats in an unusual position.
CrowdStrike reports a significant number of device backups.
CrowdStrike, a cybersecurity outfit, reports that “a significant number” of devices affected by a global IT failure on Friday are back up.
In a social media statement, the business, whose erroneous security update caused Microsoft Windows machines around the world to crash, stated that it “continues to focus on restoring all systems”.
Microsoft estimates that the incident, one of the largest IT failures in history, affected 8.5 million machines worldwide.
Businesses, banks, hospitals, and airlines were among the hardest hit, with several still unable to fully restore their systems.
“We recognise how profoundly this has affected everyone. We know our clients, partners, and their IT teams are working hard, and we are really appreciative,” CrowdStrike stated.
The company also announced the deployment of a new remedy, which it hopes will speed up computer system recovery.
CrowdStrike did not specify how many devices were still being compromised.
According to the aviation tracking and data website FlightAware, almost 1,400 flights into and out of the United States were cancelled on Sunday. Delta and United Airlines were the most severely affected US airlines.
Health services in the United Kingdom, Israel, and Germany were also disrupted on Friday, with some services cancelled.
The major outage has highlighted the vulnerability of global computer networks, demonstrating how a single failure may unleash worldwide catastrophe.
Mass shooter who ‘hunted’ black people claims police encouraged him.
A convicted South African murderer who shot dead scores of black men during apartheid has told the BBC that the police encouraged his aggression. Louis van Schoor believes that others should be held accountable for the killings he committed while working as a security guard. But in interviews with BBC Africa Eye over the last four years, he has revealed horrible information that raises major concerns about his early release from prison.
Standing in the bedroom of a murderer, your gaze instinctively focuses on the details. Van Schoor’s bed is tidy, with a comforter that appears to have been ironed. The air is thick with the odour of cigarettes, their stubs stacked high in an ashtray. Strips of sticky paper dangle from the ceiling, teeming with trapped and dying flies.
The alleged “Apartheid Killer” has lost his teeth. His health is declining. Following a heart attack, both of his legs were amputated, leaving him in a wheelchair and with terrible scars. When his surgeon performed this treatment, Van Schoor wanted an epidural rather than a general anaesthetic so that he could observe while his legs were removed. “I was curious,” he admitted, chuckling. “I saw them cutting… they sawed through the bone.”
Van Schoor tried to persuade us that he is “not the monster that people say I am” during his interview with the BBC World Service. His joyful account of his legs being severed did little to soften his image. Van Schoor shot and killed at least 39 people during a three-year period in the 1980s as part of the country’s discriminatory apartheid system, which established a tight hierarchy that favoured white South Africans.
All of his victims were Black. The youngest was only 12 years old. The killings took place in East London, a city in South Africa’s windswept Eastern Cape.
