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First Midterm Ballots Hit Mailboxes as Trump’s Postal Service Rule Fights for Its Life
First Midterm Ballots Hit Mailboxes as Trump’s Postal Service Rule Fights for Its Life North Carolina became the first state in the country to begin mailing absentee ballots for the 2026 midterm election on Friday, with all 100 county boards of elections sending ballots to voters who had already requested them. The mailing proceeded even…
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Blowout Jobs Report Triples Forecasts, But Your Paycheck Isn’t Feeling It
Blowout Jobs Report Triples Forecasts, But Your Paycheck Isn’t Feeling It The U.S. economy added 162,000 jobs in August, according to Bureau of Labor Statistics data released Friday, more than tripling economists’ forecast of roughly 53,000 to 65,000 jobs and marking the strongest monthly gain since March. The unemployment rate held steady at 4.1%, and…
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Trump’s Wolf-Killing Executive Order Splits Ranchers From Everyone Else
Trump’s Wolf-Killing Executive Order Splits Ranchers From Everyone Else President Trump signed a pair of executive orders Friday billed by the White House and USDA as making his administration the “most pro-rancher” in history. One order directs the Interior Secretary to begin the process of delisting or downlisting gray wolves and Mexican wolves under the…
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ICE Agent Who Shot Migrant Pleads Not Guilty to Lying About It
ICE Agent Who Shot Migrant Pleads Not Guilty to Lying About It Christian Castro, an Immigration and Customs Enforcement deportation officer, pleaded not guilty Friday in federal court in McAllen, Texas, to six counts of making false statements to the FBI. The charges stem from a January 14 incident in Minneapolis in which Castro and…
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Missouri’s Highest Court Blows Up Trump’s Congressional Map Weeks Before Ballots Print
Missouri’s Highest Court Blows Up Trump’s Congressional Map Weeks Before Ballots Print The Missouri Supreme Court on Wednesday unanimously blocked a Republican-drawn congressional map backed by President Trump, ruling that the mid-decade redistricting plan cannot take effect for the November election unless voters approve it in a statewide referendum. The map would have redrawn Kansas…
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UN Votes 164-1 to Ditch the Map That Shrinks Africa — America Says No
UN Votes 164-1 to Ditch the Map That Shrinks Africa — America Says No The UN General Assembly voted 164 to 1, with six abstentions, to adopt a resolution promoting the Equal Earth projection and other equal-area maps over the 16th-century Mercator projection, which visually shrinks Africa and other equatorial regions relative to northern landmasses.…
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Nepal’s Flood Death Toll Hits 1,252 as Workers Are Still Pulled From Buried Tunnels
Nepal’s Flood Death Toll Hits 1,252 as Workers Are Still Pulled From Buried Tunnels The death toll from catastrophic flash floods that struck the Nepal-Tibet border region last month has risen to 1,252, with 4,216 people still listed as missing, according to Nepali government data released this week. Chinese state media separately reported 16 deaths…
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Milei Threatens Oil Firms Over Falklands as Trump Muddies the Waters
Milei Threatens Oil Firms Over Falklands as Trump Muddies the Waters Argentine President Javier Milei said late Thursday he will send Congress an urgent bill imposing tougher sanctions on oil companies operating near the Falkland Islands, extending penalties beyond the firms themselves to their suppliers, shareholders and directors. The move targets companies tied to the…
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Prime Video Cancels Emmy-Nominated “Spider-Noir” After Just One Season
Prime Video Cancels Emmy-Nominated “Spider-Noir” After Just One Season Prime Video has canceled “Spider-Noir,” the Nicolas Cage-led series built on Sony’s Spider-Man Universe characters, after a single eight-episode season. The show, starring Cage as Ben Reilly, a down-and-out 1930s New York private investigator forced to confront his past as a masked vigilante called The Spider,…
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Sony Fires “Wheel of Fortune” Announcer Jim Thornton Over Airplane Chat Room Photos
Sony Fires “Wheel of Fortune” Announcer Jim Thornton Over Airplane Chat Room Photos Sony Pictures Television has fired Jim Thornton, the longtime announcer of “Wheel of Fortune,” three days after suspending him over photographs showing him accessing an online chat room during a commercial flight. TMZ published the images on September 3, appearing to show…