How to protect the midterm elections from hackers
Some 13 weeks till Election Day, and "The warning lights are blinking red," says the U.S. director of national intelligence. "I cannot emphasize enough the vulnerability," says Sen. Marco Rubio.
Category Archives: US News
Senate hopeful Vukmir reaffirms support for Trump in new ad
Republican U.S. Senate candidate Leah Vukmir is launching a new television ad with U.S. Rep. Sean Duffy reassuring primary voters that she supports President Donald Trump. The ad released Monday comes after video surfaced last week from 2016 featuring Vukmir saying that Trump was "offensive to everyone" and suggesting many Republicans would be reluctant to vote for him.
Bernie Sanders stumps in Michigan as progressives eye another upset
Bernie Sanders returned Sunday to Michigan, the state that re-vamped his underdog 2016 presidential campaign, hoping to boost the candidacy of another long-shot progressive looking to score an upset. Sanders joined Abdul El-Sayed, 33, for two rallies - the first at the Cobo Center in downtown Detroit, and the second in the town of Ypsilanti, 30 minutes west of the Motor City.
Nazis Don’t Like Jews Very Much
I keep coming back to this because I long thought anti-Semitism was, in the US mainstream media, the "unacceptable racism." It seems that in the age of Trump we have gotten around that by pretending that the various strands of American Nazis just hate Muslims and Mexicans and black people which is okay.
Day ahead of Kansas primary, Trump endorses Kris Kobach for governor over Colyer
President Donald Trump officially endorsed Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach on Monday, a day before polls close in Kansas in the GOP primary for governor. The endorsement is a major slight to the state's sitting governor, Jeff Colyer of Johnson County, who rose to the state's top office in January after Trump appointed former Gov. Sam Brownback to an ambassadorship.
‘We Have A Heavy Heart’: Mayor, Top Cop Lament Bloody Weekend In Chicago
Mayor, Top Cop Lament Bloody Weekend In Chicago In the wake of one of the most violent weekends of the year in Chicago, Mayor Rahm Emanuel and Chicago Police Supt. Eddie Johnson angrily lashed out at armed criminals who repeatedly open fire in the city, often shooting innocent unintended victims.
Trump breaks with aides, tweets endorsement of Kobach
Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach and candidate for the Republican nomination for Kansas Governor addresses supporters during a campaign stop Friday, Aug. 3, 2018, at the Fort Scott Livestock Market in Fort Scott, Kan. less Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach and candidate for the Republican nomination for Kansas Governor addresses supporters during a campaign stop Friday, Aug. 3, 2018, at the Fort Scott Livestock Market in Fort ... more Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach and candidate for the Republican nomination for Kansas Governor addresses supporters during a campaign stop Friday, Aug. 3, 2018, at the Fort Scott Livestock Market in Fort Scott, Kan.
Protesters block entrance to CoreCivic over immigration issues
The Protesters have taken up positions around CoreCivic, the company that operates private prisons in Nashville and across the state. According to a Washington, D.C. think tank called the Migration Policy Institute, ICE is housing thousands of illegal immigrants in private prison facilities.
Trade Wars
The supply lines of many of our beloved products depend on China. "Tariffs" are just one tool. If China wants to slow down port activity, it can.
ALS sufferer using last breaths to help Democrats win
It isn't easy for Ady Barkan to raise his right fist anymore, but he's been doing it a lot lately. Diagnosed with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, an incurable neurodegenerative disease better known as ALS or Lou Gehrig's disease, 34-year-old Barkan is a progressive activist who has spent the past two years fighting the GOP's 2017 tax bill and trying to help Democrats take back Congress.
Death penalty decree could be quandary for US politicians
Pope Francis' decree that the death penalty is "inadmissible" in all cases could pose a dilemma for Roman Catholic politicians and judges in the United States who are faced with whether to strictly follow the tenets of their faith or the rule of law. Some Catholic leaders in death penalty states have said they'll continue to support capital punishment.
Candidates make final push in tight Ohio US House race
In this April 24, 2012, file photo, Ohio state Sen. Troy Balderson, R-Zanesville, asks a question about permit fees for owning exotic animals during an Ohio Senate Agriculture, Environment and Natural Resources Committee hearing in Columbus, Ohio. Balderson and Danny O'Connor, a Democrat serving as recorder of Franklin County, Ohio, are running in a special congressional election on Tuesday, Aug. 7, 2018, to determine who will fill out the final months of the term of former U.S. Rep. Pat Tiberi, a Republican who retired in January 2018, before both candidates face off again for the retired lawmaker's seat in the Tuesday, Nov. 6, 2018, general election.
White House Nominates Science Adviser
President Trump has nominated Dr. Kelvin Droegemeier, a meteorologist and Vice President for Research at the University of Oklahoma, to be the Director of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy. If confirmed by the Senate, Dr. Droegemeier will serve as the President's chief science adviser.
The Latest: Pilot’s emergency call didn’t specify problem
Federal Aviation Administration spokeswoman Arl... An investigator says the pilot declared an emergency but didn't state the nature of his problem before a Cessna nosedived into a Southern California parking lot, killing all five people on board. The National Transportation Safety Board's Albert Nixon said he didn't know Monday how much time elapsed between the distress call and the crash.
DeSantis gets $183,000 boost from public matching money
U.S. Rep. Ron DeSantis, a Republican candidate for governor who has been endorsed by President Donald Trump, has now received $826,232 through a controversial public-matching funds program, which has divided state lawmakers. U.S. Rep. Ron DeSantis, a Republican candidate for governor who has been endorsed by President Donald Trump, has now received $826,232 through a controversial public-matching funds program, which has divided state lawmakers.
8/06/2018
Some things a gun won't help. Actually, many things. Including legal pressure from the state of New York.
ACLU appeals over New Orleans public defender wait lists
The U.S. 5th Circuit Court of Appeals in New Orleans scheduled arguments Monday in the ACLU's challenge of the system New Orleans uses to legally represent poor defendants. The group sued in 2016 on behalf of three defendants who couldn't afford a lawyer.
Sen. Rand Paul goes to Moscow and invites Russians to…
Sen. Rand Paul, one of President Donald Trump's more eager defenders on Russia, jetted into Moscow on Monday in a bid to increase engagement with the country. Paul, R-Ky., met with several Russian senators including Sergey Kislyak, Russia's former envoy to Washington and a key player at the heart of the election meddling scandal that continues to rock relations between the United States and Russia.
U.S. Senator Invites Russian Lawmakers to Washington for Talks
U.S. Senator Rand Paul said he invited Russian lawmakers to Washington, after talks in Moscow that his hosts called a signal to President Donald Trump of a desire to build ties. Paul told reporters Monday that he issued the invitation at a meeting with members of the international relations committee of Russia's upper house of parliament, including the chairman, Konstantin Kosachyov, and Sergey Kislyak, the former Russian ambassador to the U.S. The Republican lawmaker, a member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, "has access" to Trump and top U.S. officials "and we expect that we will be able to convey through him our signals" of a desire to establish dialogue, Kosachyov said, according to the state-run RIA Novosti news service.
Senators Want To Question Google About Their Plans To Relaunch In China
For almost a decade, Google has been conspicuously absent from China. This includes all of Google's products and services such as search, Gmail, and so on, and to a certain extent even Android where Android devices in China are essentially forked versions of Android with Google's services stripped from it.