Autumn marks the return of cooler weather and cozy, short days. It also means nearly all Americans will soon shift their clocks back an hour in November, marking the months of early sunsets. The debate over daylight saving time has taken on a new dimension in recent years, with lawmakers in Washington and state capitals […]
French President Emmanuel Macron pressed President Donald Trump on Tuesday to bring the conflict over the Strait of Hormuz to a swift end. Macron declined to blame the president directly for the global energy pandemonium caused by the Iran war’s impact on the Strait of Hormuz, but suggested during an ABC News interview that Washington […]
A large rebel coalition launched coordinated offensives against Ethiopia’s central government, returning the country to all-out war after four years of simmering tensions. Ethiopia, the world’s largest landlocked country, has been torn apart over the past decade by the divergent goals of ethnic political groups seeking to keep the country decentralized, and the centralizing crusade […]
A congressional witness at Wednesday’s Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on protecting women’s sports told Sen. Dick Durbin (D-IL) that the transgender lobby threatening women with claims of suicide, as justification for men to enter female-protected spaces, amounts to male gaslighting. During opening remarks, Durbin cited a statistic from the pro-transgender Trevor Project claiming that LGBT […]
Flock Safety said Wednesday it has tightened the rules for searching its database of billions of license-plate scans ahead of a Senate hearing set to scrutinize whether the company’s rapidly expanding surveillance network has outpaced meaningful safeguards. At the outset of the hearing, Sen. Josh Hawley (R-MO) said Flock issued him a letter saying it […]
White House trade adviser Peter Navarro is encouraging his Trump administration colleagues not to appear on Fox News after the cable news channel agreed to be part of the TV pool boycott this week to support three news outlets banned from the executive mansion complex. In an op-ed published on Wednesday, which Navarro then amplified […]
The Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on Crime and Counterterrorism is holding a hearing on the privacy implications of Flock cameras on Wednesday at around 2:30 p.m. NORTHERN VIRGINIA CITIES TAKE A STEP BACK FROM FLOCK CAMERAS AFTER COMMUNITY OUTRAGE The hearing, titled “Always Watching: Flock’s Nationwide AI Surveillance Network,” will feature testimonies from stakeholders such as […]
The Democratic former Mayor of New Orleans, Mitch Landrieu, 66, says he is “seriously” thinking about running for president in 2028, adding his name to the wide array of Democrats floating a bid for the White House in two years. “I am thinking about it. A lot of people have said, ‘You should think about […]
Sen. Ted Budd (R-NC) and 10 other Senate Republicans urged President Donald Trump to press Chinese President Xi Jinping to crack down on the flow of unauthorized Chinese-made vapes into the United States when the two leaders meet in Washington on Wednesday. In the letter to Trump released ahead of his meeting with Xi, Budd […]
An alleged child predator who prosecutors say was fixated on terrorist content is asking a court to toss crucial evidence over legal technicalities. The FBI conducted illegal warrantless searches when investigating Pennsylvania man Aniruth Kuppusamy for allegedly manufacturing and possessing child pornography and sexually enticing a minor, his lawyer said in an Aug. 14 motion […]
