At least twelve states have issued air quality alerts and advisories due to the ongoing Canadian wildfires sending smoke down to the Great Lakes region and the northeastern United States, the National Weather Service reported on Tuesday. Wisconsin and Michigan remain subject to an “orange” air quality index, with some areas in those states being […]
Russia will no longer abide by its self-imposed ban on deploying intermediate-range missiles, the country’s foreign ministry announced Monday. Moscow had remained committed to following the 1987 Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty after President Donald Trump withdrew the United States from the agreement in 2019 during his first term, but the ministry’s announcement means Russia will […]
President Donald Trump alleged on Monday that the Bureau of Labor Statistics’ employment data revisions last year favored Democrats, although the pre-election revisions appear to have hurt Democrats. In a surprise move on Friday, Trump announced he had fired BLS Commissioner Erika McEntarfer. The announcement came just hours after a worse-than-expected monthly jobs report that […]
MSNBC anchor Rachel Maddow tried to make the case that the United States is a “dictatorship” because Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents are arresting illegal immigrants. Maddow opened the Rachel Maddow Show saying, “the thing we were all warning about for the last few years … is here” – President Donald Trump in office a […]
Israel will allow local merchants to transport goods into the Gaza Strip as part of wider efforts to alleviate the humanitarian crisis in the region. The Coordinator of Government Activities in the Territories, a division of the Israeli Ministry of Defense, announced on Tuesday that Gaza-based merchants will be issued permits to transport vital goods […]
President Donald Trump reached an agreement Monday with News Corporation magnate Rupert Murdoch to postpone Murdoch’s deposition in the $20 billion defamation lawsuit against the Wall Street Journal. Trump sued the outlet over its viral story about his connections with convicted child sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. The filing of the agreement between the two parties […]
The Trump administration is considering whether to publicly release a transcript of a late-July interview between Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche and convicted sex trafficker Ghislaine Maxwell. The Justice Department recorded Maxwell’s interview, which took place last month on July 24 and 25 at the U.S. attorney’s office in Tallahassee, and is now in the process of transcribing and redacting […]
Texas is permitted to enforce its law dismissing mail-in ballots without a voter’s identification number, a federal appeals court ruled on Monday. The three-judge panel, led by U.S. Circuit Judge James Ho for the Fifth Circuit, said it had “no difficulty” concluding that Texas’s identification requirement was valid and consistent with federal law. A provision […]
Texas Democrats who fled the state as Republicans look to redraw the Lone Star State’s congressional lines pushed back on the GOP efforts during a press conference Tuesday morning. The press conference, where the Democrats were joined by Democratic National Committee Chairman Ken Martin and Gov. JB Pritzker (D-IL), comes on the eve of the […]
President Donald Trump was spotted Tuesday morning on the White House roof for a roughly 20-minute walking tour. Trump and a small group of men, including architect James McCrery, walked around the briefing room’s roof and looked down at the Rose Garden and across the South Lawn, which is the planned site of a new ballroom […]
