Vote.org is launching its largest-ever voter registration campaign, aimed at adding 8 million voters for the 2024 cycle, the nonpartisan voter engagement organization announced on Friday. “With near daily reporting about young people and people of color feeling disillusioned with this year’s elections, a nationwide movement to engage and help them register to vote has...
Sen. Chris Murphy (D-Conn.) fired back at Donald Trump Jr. on Friday for calling out three Senate Democrats who voted to end the impeachment case against Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas. “Your Friday morning reminder that Republicans are full of shit when they complain about the border,” Murphy wrote Friday morning. “They killed the tough,...
A federal judge rejected efforts from former President Trump’s two co-defendants in the Mar-a-Lago case to toss the charges against them. The order from Judge Aileen Cannon rejects various motions from Trump valet Walt Nauta and property manager Carlos de Oliveira. Both men are facing charges in the case related to helping Trump move boxes...
A former St. Louis police officer has been awarded $23 million after he was beaten by other officers while working undercover in 2017. Luther Hall, the former officer, won Monday after the defendant — one of his former colleagues — failed to respond to a lawsuit over the attack, according to court records. Hall, who is Black,...
Melania Trump is making a pitch for unity and says the "safety" of Americans would be her prime concern if her husband, former President Trump, wins his bid to return to the White House. "The safety and well-being of American families remains my top priority," the former first lady told Fox News Digital in a story published Friday....
Michigan's Democratic Party is reserving $10.5 million in ad reservations in a bid to support candidates running in the state House elections in November. The party will spend $2.5 million in Grand Rapids, Lansing, and Detroit, respectively. One million will be spent in Marquette, while $700,000 will be allocated to ads in Traverse City and...
For President Biden and the Democrats, thing are looking ugly in November.
President Biden is addressing members of the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers (IBEW) at a conference in Washington, D.C., Friday. Biden has made highly visible support for unions central to his economic policies and his reelection campaign. The president will meet with the IBEW, one of the largest constituents of the AFL-CIO, just one day...
Dozens of Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s former colleagues at an environmental defense giant are calling on the Independent presidential candidate to drop out of the race. Several current and former Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) staffers, including co-founder John Adams and President and CEO Manish Bapna, threw their support behind President Biden in the letter,...
Italian Foreign Minister Antonio Tajani said that Israel warned the U.S. about a drone attack on Iran Friday morning apparently targeting an air base and a nuclear site in central Iran. Iranian air defense batteries were active after explosions were heard near the air base near the central city of Isfahan, the Associated Press reported...
On its face, Jordan’s high-risk decision to support Israel in repelling the hundreds of aerial vehicles that Iran fired at the Jewish State appears inconsistent with its vocal criticism of the Israeli invasion of Gaza. Amman’s long-time support of the Palestinians could have prompted it to remain passive in the face of the Iranian attack,...
The U.S. ambassador to Russia recently met with Evan Gershkovich, the Wall Street Journal reporter who has been unlawfully detained in the country for more than a year. The U.S. Embassy in Moscow said Lynne Tracy met with Gershkovich, who was arrested last year by Russia’s Federal Security Service during a reporting trip in Yekaterinburg and has...
CNN analyst Mark Preston said he thinks if former President Trump is jailed for violating the gag order in his hush money trial, there would be “civil unrest across the country” and it would help him in the polls. Preston joined CNN’s Jim Acosta and others to discuss the possibility of Judge Juan Merchan putting...
The Trump campaign and Republican National Committee (RNC) on Friday said it planned have more than 100,000 attorneys and volunteers in battleground states to monitor vote counting in November's election. The campaign announced it would offer training sessions every month on monitoring voting sites and tabulation centers. Poll watchers would be observing and reporting any...
Cuba easily produced its own food until 1960 but is now fully dependent on food imports. This is not an anomaly — wherever communism has been imposed, food production has suffered.
San Francisco is going to be the next U.S. city to receive a pair of pandas from China as part of the “panda diplomacy” program between Washington and Beijing. San Francisco Mayor London Breed announced Friday that the San Francisco Zoo has been selected to house the giant pandas. “San Francisco is absolutely thrilled that...
The Biden administration on Friday designated two pervasive pollutants as “hazardous substances” — making it easier to put companies that dumped them on the hook for cleanup costs. The move, by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), designates two types of PFAS as hazardous under the nation’s legacy pollution law. PFAS, which stands for per-and polyfluoroalkyl...
Why are Sudanese lives seemingly unworthy of attention?
CNN senior legal analyst Elie Honig said late Thursday that he thinks alternate jurors will be needed to reach a verdict in former President Trump’s hush money trial, because others may "get freaked out” and want to be dismissed. “Jurors get sick, jurors get freaked out. Some of them could be spooked by a social...
Jury selection in former President Trump’s hush money trial could conclude on Friday after 12 jurors and one alternate were seated the day before. There’s still a chance, however, a juror could be dismissed. On Thursday, two jurors who had been seated were dropped - one who expressed frustration over the media’s extensive coverage and...
One of the principal tenets of progress and innovation is that we are not tethered to old technology. For example, when consumers purchase the latest smartphone that can connect to the internet or download applications, they are not forced to buy a rotary phone. When consumers subscribe to broadband service, they aren’t additionally required to...
Political junkies are in a dysfunctional relationship with polls.
Iran early Friday fired at drones suspected to be part of an Israeli attack near a major air base and nuclear site near the city of Isfahan. Air defense batteries were activated after reports of explosions near the air base, The Associated Press reported. The New York Times reported that television networks and officials in...
The news of the day doesn’t make existential problems go away. We can spend the moral and financial capital now to save the environment or our children and grandchildren will pay the price later.
When the People's Republic of China won recognition as China's rightful government, it also inherited its predecessor government's debts