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Missouri’s Supreme Court Rushes to Decide Whether Voters Get a Say on a Gerrymander
Missouri’s Supreme Court Rushes to Decide Whether Voters Get a Say on a Gerrymander The Missouri Supreme Court heard oral arguments Wednesday on whether a citizen-led referendum can go before voters on the new Republican-drawn congressional map that Gov. Mike Kehoe signed into law after a special session, with the case bundled alongside two other…
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Trump Taps Combat Veteran Hung Cao for Navy Secretary — Past Comments Reignite Fight
Trump Taps Combat Veteran Hung Cao for Navy Secretary — Past Comments Reignite Fight President Trump announced he will formally nominate Hung Cao, a Navy combat veteran and 2024 Republican Senate candidate in Virginia, to be Secretary of the Navy after Cao spent four months serving as the department’s acting civilian leader [1]. Trump praised…
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Army Secretary Dan Driscoll Quits After Months of Clashing With Pete Hegseth
Army Secretary Dan Driscoll Quits After Months of Clashing With Pete Hegseth Army Secretary Dan Driscoll, who became the youngest-ever Army secretary at age 38, resigned after 18 months marked by repeated clashes with Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, confirming Wednesday, September 2, was his last full day on the job without publicly stating a reason…
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RFK Jr. Calls Measles Deaths “Fabricated” as Pennsylvania Coroner Opens a Second Investigation
RFK Jr. Calls Measles Deaths “Fabricated” as Pennsylvania Coroner Opens a Second Investigation Pennsylvania health officials reported that two Lancaster County residents, including a newborn, died from measles-associated causes — the state’s first measles deaths in 35 years and the first in the U.S. this year. HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and CMS Administrator…
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A Whistleblower Says Trump’s Rushed Mail-Ballot System Could Wreck the Midterms
A Whistleblower Says Trump’s Rushed Mail-Ballot System Could Wreck the Midterms A federal employee with direct knowledge of the U.S. Postal Service’s plans for handling mail-in ballots ahead of the November midterms has filed a whistleblower complaint alleging USPS built its new ballot-verification technology in a “rushed, chaotic, and fundamentally flawed process.” The complaint says…
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Germany Shuts Russia’s Last Consulate After Blaming Moscow for Leipzig Airport Drone Plot
Germany Shuts Russia’s Last Consulate After Blaming Moscow for Leipzig Airport Drone Plot Germany announced on September 2 that it will close the Russian Consulate General in Bonn by September 18, Russia’s last remaining consulate general in the country, and terminate an agreement covering the Russian House in Berlin, requiring staff at both institutions to…
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Xi Jinping Lands in Cairo, Handing China a Foothold in Washington’s Oldest Arab Ally
Xi Jinping Lands in Cairo, Handing China a Foothold in Washington’s Oldest Arab Ally Chinese President Xi Jinping arrived in Cairo on a state visit at the invitation of Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi, his first trip to Egypt in a decade and his first to the Middle East’s most populous nation in that span.…
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US and Iran Trade New Strikes Across the Middle East as the War Widens Into Jordan and the Gulf
US and Iran Trade New Strikes Across the Middle East as the War Widens Into Jordan and the Gulf The U.S. military launched a fresh barrage of strikes against Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps targets inside Iran this week, escalating a six-month conflict that has already driven global energy prices higher. The strikes followed a weekend…
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George Clooney Turns His Venice Golden Lion Speech Into a Kakistocracy Takedown
George Clooney Turns His Venice Golden Lion Speech Into a Kakistocracy Takedown George Clooney accepted the Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement at the Venice Film Festival on September 2, using both his press conference and acceptance speech to address U.S. politics. Asked about the direction of the country under President Trump, Clooney said “we’re at…
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Venice’s Palestinian Flag Fight Leaves the Festival No-Win on Opening Day
Venice’s Palestinian Flag Fight Leaves the Festival No-Win on Opening Day The activist collective Venice4Palestine renewed its demand that the Venice Film Festival fly the Palestinian flag alongside other nations’ banners at the Lido, given that two Palestinian-directed films — Ahmed Hassouna’s “Citizen Osama” and Muayad Alayan’s “Conversation with the Sea” — are in this…