A group of Democratic lawmakers is calling for the Trump administration to suspend a new surveillance program it quietly launched to collect the personal and identifiable health data of Americans who visit emergency rooms.
The U.S. Supreme Court again rejected a push to use Missouri congressional maps backed by President Donald Trump on Thursday, a loss for Republicans trying to maintain control of the House in the fast-approaching midterm elections.
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A North Texas man is charged with two counts of terroristic threat against a public servant after the Texas Department of Public Safety said he sent violent messages to Democratic U.S. Senate candidate James Talarico in August. The affidavit says an Aug. 3 email to Talarico's campaign account threatened to kill him and "drag your body through the streets." An Aug. 11 Instagram message made a similar threat, KXAN reported, citing the warrant. Talarico's chief of staff notified DPS on Aug. 12.
Some U.S. Postal Service facilities failed to properly handle ballots during this year's primary elections, according to a new audit from the agency's Office of Inspector General. Election experts say the findings call into question the agency's ability to meet even greater demands for the November election that are under consideration by the U.S. Supreme Court. The audit, which is dated Sept. 4 but has not been previously reported, found a lack of training for post office staff on how to properly and expeditiously handle mail ballots, deficiencies in how ballots were tracked and errors leading to delays, all of which risked ballots having incorrect postmarks or otherwise arriving late to election officials, which could lead to their rejection.
Kalie Robins was driving along with one of her daughters in the back seat of her car last week, the two of them singing a song together. She posted the video to Instagram, with her child's face concealed so she isn't identifiable -- or so she thought.
Following the fall of the Third Reich, US Army General Dwight D. Eisenhower and US Secretary of the Treasury Henry Morgenthau Jr instituted a plan to De-Nazify the massive German industrial base. But the efforts of their ardent investigators, auditors, and analysts were stifled, halted, and blunted every step of the way. Opposed by Wall Street, US banks, corporations, and the oligarchs, as well as US Army General George S. Patton, the vast post-war German industrial base remained basically intact and rebuilt as a bulwark against Soviet Russia and a source of steady future profits for American and West German elites.
"The Fraternity" fought this plan tooth-and-nail.Read more
John Malkovich has canceled a planned performance in Israel after promoters circulated a quote attributed to the American actor that he said was completely false. A recent press release quoted Malkovich as saying: "I am thrilled to return to Israel and am looking forward to meeting the warm Israeli audience once again, to whom I feel a strong closeness and solidarity." The quote appeared in some Israeli and U.S. media outlets. Malkovich told The Hollywood Reporter that he "never made the statements that were quoted, nor was I consulted before they were printed." "I did not utter these phrases, and they most certainly are not approved by me, nor do they reflect my feelings," he said. "For this reason, I have decided I cannot participate in the Tel Aviv performance." Read more
In an affront to creeps everywhere, Meta has started remotely bricking the smart glasses of wearers who try to secretly record other people. Earlier this month, the Mark Zuckerberg-led company said it would crack down on customers who modified the spectacles to disable or cover up their lights that indicate when they're recording, amid incredible public backlash against how the glasses are being used to film people without their consent " girls and women especially " and harass them. Read more
Yemen's Houthis targeted Aramco facilities in the Saudi Arabian cities of Abha, Najran and Jizan, as well as an airbase in Khamis Mushait, with ballistic missiles and drones. The Houthi attacks on Saudi Arabia came after they accused Riyadh of an attack on a prison that killed 17 people, according to the Houthi Ministry of Health. The revived war between the Houthi rebels and pro-government forces in southwest Yemen has forced nearly 20,000 people to flee their homes, the International Organization for Migration says. Read more
The US Department of Labour has suspended permanent labour certification filings by technology services giant Cognizant as federal authorities investigate alleged fraud and possible harm to American workers. It impacts the company's filings under the Permanent Labor Certification program, commonly known as PERM, which is a key step for employers seeking employment-based green cards for foreign...
The American military's underwater drone that Iran claimed to capture near the Strait of Hormuz on Tuesday was an older Anduril Dive-LD model that was "defective and malfunctioning well before" the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps announced its so-called seizure, according to a source at U.S. Central Command. "The drone was essentially dead in the water for more than a day," Centcom spokesperson Navy Capt. Tim Hawkins told DefenseScoop. Hawkins discussed the command's early recap of the incident, after news reports surfaced from Iran's state media depicting an Anduril-branded unmanned undersea vessel that was allegedly caught by the IRGC Navy in waters around the entrance to the highly-contested strait.
American forces struck multiple Iranian tankers tied to the IRGC on Tuesday night, a US official told Al Arabiya English. The attacks were in response to more attempted missile attacks on a US Navy warship, the official added. Read more
The operating company that runs the Paris landmark said a Hindu religious delegation had requested that interactions with women' be limited during its visit. The Eiffel Tower has reopened after staff walked out over the removal of women staff during a weekend visit by a Hindu religious delegation. The operating company that runs the Paris landmark, SETE, acknowledged that the group had requested the Saturday visit be organised to limit "interactions with women" and said "these conditions should not have been accepted." Read more
Geno Auriemma has reached the twilight of his legendary collegiate coaching career with UConn women's basketball, racking up more wins than any other coach in the sport's history. However, even at 72 years old, Auriemma's concerns are focused squarely on the future of college athletics, which he says is "dying."
Germany's right-wing populist Alternative fr Deutschland (AfD) thanked billionaire Elon Musk for his support Sunday after scoring a historic election victory, taking the moment to call for future "cooperation." The AfD stormed to first place in Saxony-Anhalt with 43.8% of the vote, more than doubling its support from five years ago and leaving Chancellor Friedrich Merz's Christian Democratic Union a distant second on 17.2%. The result nevertheless left the AfD just short of the absolute majority it had sought. Final returns gave the party 39 lawmakers in the 83-seat state parliament, three seats shy of governing alone.
