Category: US

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

Gas Prices Blow Past $4 a Gallon and Trump Scrambles Before the Midterms The national average price for regular gasoline stood at $4.10 per gallon this week, up from $2.98 before the Iran war began on Feb. 28, with prices exceeding $4 every day since the start of August. President Trump met with U.S. oil…

Massie Names Names on the House Floor — And Nobody’s Satisfied Rep. Thomas Massie, R-Ky., took to the House floor Monday night and read aloud more than a dozen names he described as Jeffrey Epstein’s co-conspirators, including Jes Staley, Leon Black, Les Wexner and Prince Andrew, noting that some had since died. Massie said it…

California Bans ICE’s Shock Gloves Before the Feds Even Buy Them The California Legislature passed a bill late Monday banning law enforcement agencies in the state from using electric shock gloves, a direct response to a Department of Homeland Security notice that ICE plans to spend up to $20 million on the devices. The gloves,…

Congress Punts the Budget Fight Past the Midterms The House voted 370-48 on Tuesday to pass a continuing resolution funding the federal government through Dec. 11, sending the bill to President Trump’s desk with the shutdown deadline now pushed past the November midterm elections. Nineteen Republicans and 29 Democrats voted against the measure [1]. The…

Ed Markey Crushes a Generational Challenge — and Democrats Still Aren’t Sure That’s Good News Massachusetts Sen. Ed Markey, 80, defeated Rep. Seth Moulton, 47, in Tuesday’s Democratic Senate primary by roughly 30 points. Markey campaigned with endorsements from Sens. Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, while Moulton argued it was time…