McALLEN, Texas (AP) — The South Texas home of Elon Musk’s SpaceX rocket company is now an official city with a galactic name: Starbase. A vote Saturday to organize Starbase as a city was approved by a lopsided margin among the small group of voters who live there and are mostly Musk’s employees at SpaceX. […]
SINGAPORE (AP) — Singapore’s long-ruling People’s Action Party won another landslide in Saturday’s general elections, extending its 66-year unbroken rule in a huge boost for Prime Minister Lawrence Wong who took power a year ago. The Election Department announced the PAP won 82 Parliamentary seats after vote counting ended. The party had earlier won five […]
SIMI VALLEY, California (AP) — A small plane crashed into a neighborhood in Simi Valley on Saturday afternoon, killing one person aboard the aircraft and damaging two homes, authorities said. Fire crews responded to the scene, and police officers cordoned off the streets, warning people to stay clear of the area. Smoke could be seen […]
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky suggested that his military would not abide by a three-day ceasefire laid out by Russian President Vladimir Putin earlier this week, instead offering a longer 30-day truce that is backed by the United States. Putin announced on Monday a suspension of “all military actions” from midnight May 8 to midnight May […]
Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum revealed on Saturday that she rejected a proposal from President Donald Trump that included deploying U.S. troops in Mexico to fight against drug cartels. Addressing a recent Wall Street Journal report that detailed a push from Trump to have the U.S. military take the lead in battling the violent drug cartels […]
A member of Canada‘s Parliament announced he would abandon his seat to ensure that Conservative Party leader Pierre Poilievre can run in a special election and return to the House of Commons. Conservative MP Damien Kurek indicated on Friday that he would only be “temporarily” abandoning the seat of Battle River-Crowfoot in Alberta, which he handily secured […]
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) held a town hall in her New York congressional district where she pushed back on the Trump administration‘s crackdown on illegal immigration, challenging the administration’s border czar to “come for me.” Ocasio-Cortez’s fiery town hall in Queens included her response to Trump border czar Tom Homan’s warning to people attempting to […]
A lawsuit filed by a fired CIA doctor claims she was booted from her job by the Trump administration after she was placed on a “Deep State Target List” by a right-wing activist. Terry Adirim was fired from her job as the director of the CIA Centers for Global Health Services earlier this year, after […]
Luigi Mangione’s lawyers filed a motion to the New York Supreme Court seeking to have evidence suppressed and have his state charges for the assassination of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson dismissed. Mangione faces 11 charges in New York court over his alleged killing of Thompson on Dec. 4, 2024, outside the Hilton hotel in Midtown Manhattan. […]
(The Center Square) — Electric car company Tesla has reportedly hired 1,000 new employees for their “gigafactory” to support ramped-up semi truck manufacturing. After years of delays, Tesla has hired the army of employees at the Sparks Gigafactory east of Reno to finally spur production for the line of electric semi-trucks. Tesla CEO Elon Musk has said […]
