Russia has vetoed a resolution at the UN Security Council calling on all countries to prevent an arms race in outer space. The draft resolution, put forward by the US and Japan, sought to reaffirm a principle already set out in the 1967 Outer Space Treaty. The US has warned that Russia is believed to be developing a space-based, anti-satellite nuclear weapon. Read more
The United States quietly sent long-range ballistic missiles to Ukraine as part of a package of military support in March, and Ukraine has used the weapons twice, according to US officials. The longer-range Army Tactical Missile Systems (ATACMS) can hit targets as far as 300km (186 miles) away, nearly double the range of the mid-range ATACMS that the US began sending towards the end of last year. Read more
House Speaker (R-LA) Mike Johnson trekked to Columbia University's New York City campus on Wednesday"and was immediately greeted with a chorus of boos. The crowd loudly heckled and booed Johnson as he approached a podium and launched into his speech, railing against "antisemites" who "gnash their teeth and demand to wipe the State of Israel off the map and attack our innocent Jewish students." Mike Johnson: "At Yale, a Jewish student was stabbed in the eye with a Palestinian Flag and 45 students were arrested. At NYU, pro-Hamas protesters were shouting 'from the river to the sea'" Read more
'So appalled': An array of former associates described Trump's treatment of government secrets.
Doctors successfully transplanted a pig kidney into a woman who was too sick for a "traditional" organ transplant on Wednesday. Patient Lisa Pisano, 54, suffered from heart and kidney failure before the transplant, making her ineligible for a human-donated kidney, according to the Associated Press. The doctors at NYU Langone Health instead implanted a heart pump to keep her heart pumping during the procedure and transplanted a pig kidney into her body. Pisano was able to use a walker after the procedure and took her first steps, later expressing gratitude for the procedure. "I was at the end of my rope," Pisano said. "I just took a chance. And you know, worst-case scenario, if it didn't work for me, it might have worked for someone else and it could have helped the next person."
Want to feel old? The inescapable march of time comes for us all, and what better time to remember our own mortality than the NFL Draft? With an ever-increasing number of NFL progeny entering the league we're seeing the children of players who retired less than a decade ago trying to find a home in the NFL. Read more
In February, PGA Tour commissioner Jay Monahan introduced the rough outline of the Player Equity Program, a vesting plan for the circuit's new for-profit arm that will carve up a hefty portion of the initial $1.5 billion investment from Strategic Sports Group. The initial player equity grants will be approximately $930 million distributed to 193 players via four categories, starting with the game's stars. Read more
David Pecker, the former publisher of the National Enquirer, testified at Donald Trump's trial Tuesday that the tabloid completely manufactured a negative story in 2016 about the father of Sen. Ted Cruz, of Texas, who was then Trump's rival for the GOP presidential nomination after the tabloid went after him, and Trump seized on the story. Read more
The Arizona House on Wednesday narrowly voted to repeal a near-total abortion ban dating from 1864.
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Donald Trump Jr. and Eric Trump have become key players in the early planning for a second Trump administration's transition team, and would focus on vetting potential officials and staffers for ideology and loyalty, campaign aides and close allies to their father tell Axios.
Michigan prosecutors consider former President Donald Trump and some of his top aides co-conspirators in the plot to submit a certificate falsely claiming he won Michigan's 2020 election, an investigator for Attorney General Dana Nessel's office testified Wednesday in court. Howard Shock, a special agent for Nessel, said Trump; Mark Meadows, who was Trump's chief of staff; and Rudy Giuliani, who was his personal lawyer, are "unindicted co-conspirators" in Michigan's false elector case. In total, over the last two days, Shock has identified 11 conspirators who haven't been charged. That means prosecutors believe they participated, to some extent, in an alleged scheme to commit forgery by creating a false document asserting Trump had won Michigan's 16 electoral votes when Democrat Joe Biden had won them.
Republican National Committee (RNC) co-Chair Lara Trump said the national committee will have both poll watchers and people "who can physically handle ballots" on Election Day. "We now have the ability at the RNC not just to have poll watchers " people standing in polling locations " but people who can physically handle the ballots," Lara Trump, the daughter-in-law of former President Trump, told Eric Bolling in a Newsmax appearance Tuesday. Poll watchers, who typically observe the ballot-counting process and report any issues to authorities or officials, can't touch ballots or machinery.
Ryan Watson, is in jail on the island and facing a potential mandatory minimum sentence of 12 years behind bars after airport security allegedly found four rounds of hunting ammo in his carry-on bag earlier this month.
About a year ago, when Alvin Bragg, the Manhattan district attorney, indicted former President Donald Trump, I was critical of the case and called it an embarrassment. I thought an array of legal problems would and should lead to long delays in federal courts. After listening to Monday's opening statement by prosecutors, I still think the Manhattan D.A. has made a historic mistake.
Former President Trump holds a 6-point lead over President Biden in key battleground states that will likely determine the outcome of November's election, according to a survey published Wednesday. The Bloomberg News/Morning Consult poll found Trump garnered 49 percent support in the swing states, over Biden's 43 percent. The former president held the lead in six of seven states " Wisconsin, Pennsylvania, Nevada, North Carolina, Georgia and Arizona. Biden was ahead by 2 points in Michigan, the survey found. Read more
