President Donald Trump was handed a setback in his quest to alter mail-in voting policy in federal elections on Saturday by a federal appeals court. The 1st U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Boston declined to lift an injunction blocking key provisions of a March executive order that sought to alter rules around mail-in ballots […]
India’s Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan resigned on Saturday after weeks of student-led protests over allegations of failing to prevent leaks of medical school entrance exams. The Cockroach Janta Party, a youth movement that challenges Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s handling of youth unemployment and educational opportunities, called for an end to the weekslong effort to oust […]
Sen. Mitch McConnell’s (R-KY) prolonged absence from Washington, D.C., has Republicans concerned about legislation they’re struggling to push through Congress given the confines of their narrow majority. The party holds only a 53-to-47 majority in the Senate, making every vote critical. McConnell’s absence, since a fall and subsequent hospitalization on June 14, has stalled high-stakes […]
Pop superstar Katy Perry called out the Trump administration on Saturday for using her song on the White House TikTok account. “I am deeply appalled and angry to see ‘Firework’ used on the @WhiteHouse TikTok account as a backing track for video footage of military strikes. I did not approve this, I was not asked, […]
Texas officials on Friday said that testing confirmed Lorenzo Salgado Araujo was not carrying drugs in his vehicle, striking down the FBI’s initial assessment that there could have been drugs in the construction laborer’s work van when he was killed by immigration agents. Araujo was shot dead in Houston earlier this month after being targeted […]
House Majority Whip Tom Emmer (R-MN) said MAGA is not backing down in the midterm elections just because President Donald Trump isn’t on the ballot. He’s heard people say, “‘There is no enthusiasm out there, and without Trump on the ballot, those Trump voters aren’t going to show up,’ well, take a look at a […]
Former President Joe Biden on Friday dropped his lawsuit attempting to bar the release of his memoir tapes to the public, after an appeals court ruled in favor of releasing them. Biden’s attorneys filed the notice of voluntary dismissal, days after a divided three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of […]
President Donald Trump and the Justice Department struck a defiant tone Friday after prosecutors withdrew subpoenas targeting New York Times reporters in a criminal leak investigation involving Trump’s Qatari-donated Air Force One plane. “We’re not after journalists,” Trump told reporters in the Oval Office. “We’re after leakers. We’re after people that are cowards, people that […]
Maine Democrats on Friday nominated former state senator Troy Jackson to replace former Senate candidate Graham Platner on the ballot, launching a 101-day sprint for the party to build a coalition capable of ousting Sen. Susan Collins (R-ME). Jackson easily clinched the nomination during a state convention in Bangor, where hundreds of Democratic delegates from […]
Yemen’s Iran-backed Houthi rebels said Saturday that they fired missiles and drones at Saudi Arabia in response to Saudi airstrikes on the strategic Red Sea city of Hodeida, in another escalation over vital shipping routes in the Middle East, while the United States and Iran vie for control of the Strait of Hormuz. Brig. Gen. Yahya Saree, the Houthis’ military […]
