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Treasury Declares “Economic D-Day” on Iran — And Some Republicans Are Nervous About the Bill
Treasury Declares “Economic D-Day” on Iran — And Some Republicans Are Nervous About the Bill Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent announced “Operation Economic Outcast” on Monday, a sweeping new sanctions campaign targeting Iran’s oil, shipping, aviation, gold and digital-asset sectors, along with military procurement networks and a cyber group the administration says was responsible for intrusions…
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Louisiana National Guard Pulls Out of New Orleans After Eight Months on Bourbon Street
Louisiana National Guard Pulls Out of New Orleans After Eight Months on Bourbon Street The Louisiana National Guard is ending its eight-month deployment in New Orleans, with the 120 remaining troops completing their final French Quarter patrol on Monday ahead of a full withdrawal by August 31. The deployment began in late December with 350…
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ICE Sweeps Three Connecticut Cities, Arresting Day Laborers, a Dialysis Patient, and a Father Dropping Off His Kid
ICE Sweeps Three Connecticut Cities, Arresting Day Laborers, a Dialysis Patient, and a Father Dropping Off His Kid Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents arrested at least 20 people across Danbury, Stamford and Bridgeport, Connecticut on Monday, with community advocates saying the true total is likely higher and reports of continued activity stretching into Tuesday. Early…
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DHS Touted 250,000 “Noncitizen Voters.” The Real Number Was Less Than Half That.
DHS Touted 250,000 “Noncitizen Voters.” The Real Number Was Less Than Half That. The Department of Homeland Security has acknowledged to state election officials that the noncitizen voter-roll numbers it publicly touted this summer were inflated, after the White House and DHS had claimed in July to have identified roughly 250,000 potential noncitizens registered to…
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Supreme Court Hands Trump a Voting Rules Win — But Nobody Knows What Happens Next
Supreme Court Hands Trump a Voting Rules Win — But Nobody Knows What Happens Next The Supreme Court ruled 6-3 on Monday to lift part of a lower-court injunction that had blocked pieces of President Trump’s executive order restricting mail-in voting ahead of the November midterms, in an unsigned emergency order over the dissent of…
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Israeli Strike Destroys Gaza Malnutrition Warehouse Overnight, Killing Seven Elsewhere in Enclave
Israeli Strike Destroys Gaza Malnutrition Warehouse Overnight, Killing Seven Elsewhere in Enclave An Israeli strike overnight into Tuesday hit a target near a warehouse in Deir al-Balah, central Gaza, collapsing its roof and walls and destroying the entire stock of nutrition supplies stored inside for malnourished children, pregnant women and breastfeeding mothers. The warehouse belonged…
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Indonesia’s Wildfire Haze Chokes Millions as Fires Surge Almost Overnight
Indonesia’s Wildfire Haze Chokes Millions as Fires Surge Almost Overnight Indonesia recorded 11,908 wildfire hot spots nationwide in a single 24-hour span, nearly double the 6,352 detected the previous day, with more than 5,000 of them concentrated on the island of Borneo. South Sumatra logged the highest provincial count at 1,429 hot spots, followed by…
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Congo’s Ebola Outbreak Kills 300 in a Week as an Unproven Vaccine Races Against the Clock
Congo’s Ebola Outbreak Kills 300 in a Week as an Unproven Vaccine Races Against the Clock The Democratic Republic of Congo’s Ebola outbreak has recorded one of its deadliest weeks yet, with 317 deaths logged in the seven days leading up to Saturday, August 22, bringing the total to 5,514 cases and 2,642 deaths since…
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Warner Bros. Animation’s Boss Is Out Right as the Studio Gets Split in Two
Warner Bros. Animation’s Boss Is Out Right as the Studio Gets Split in Two Sam Register, who has run Warner Bros. Animation, Cartoon Network Studios and Hanna-Barbera Studios Europe for 18 years, is departing after the studio and Register “mutually agreed” not to renew his contract, Variety reported in an exclusive Tuesday, August 25 [1].…
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Dolly Parton Dies at 80, and the Business She Built Now Has to Run Without Her
Dolly Parton Dies at 80, and the Business She Built Now Has to Run Without Her Dolly Parton, the country music icon, actress and philanthropist, died Tuesday, August 25, at age 80. Her team said she passed in Nashville surrounded by loved ones after a brief battle with cancer; she had reportedly been hospitalized four…