Supreme Court Strips Protections from Wetlands
The Supreme Court ruled Thursday to boost property rights over clean water, stripping government protections from wetlands that are isolated from larger bodies of water. Sackett v The Environmental Protection Agency centered on an argument brought to the Court by Idaho property owners Chantell and Michael Sackett. Their legal team asserted that the 1972 Clean […]
Biden Picks Air Force Chief of Staff as Next Joint Chiefs Chairman
President Biden has tapped current Air Force Chief of Staff Gen. Charles “CQ” Brown Jr. to replace Army Gen. Mark Milley as Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. Gen. Brown is a career F-16 fighter pilot with a deep knowledge of China. According to his Air Force bio, he has more than 2,900 flight […]
Lawmakers to Leave Washington for Weekend with no Debt Deal
Congressional lawmakers were set to leave Washington Thursday for the long holiday weekend without locking down a debt deal just days before the U.S. could potentially default. On Wednesday, House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) had insisted that the standoff over raising the debt ceiling was “not my fault.” He added that he remained optimistic that […]
China Braces for New Covid Wave
China is bracing for a new wave of Covid-19 which could include up to 65 million cases per week by the time the outbreak peaks at the end of June. Respiratory disease specialist Zhong Nanshan broke the news during a medical conference this week in the southern city of Guangzhou. According to Chinese state media, […]
Wagner Chief Says His Russian Mercenaries are Withdrawing from Bakhmut
Wagner Group leader, Yevgeny Prigozhin, said in a video published Thursday that Russia’s mercenary group has started pulling its troops out of the eastern Ukrainian city of Bakhmut. “We are withdrawing the units from Bakhmut. From today at five in the morning, May 25 until June 1, most of the units will rebase to camps […]
DeSantis Launches Campaign Amid “Tech Issues”
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R-FL) entered the 2024 Presidential race Wednesday evening via an online interview with Twitter CEO Elon Musk. However, the Twitter Spaces app, to which more than 300,000 people tuned in for the announcement, reportedly had problems loading for some, while it crashed altogether for others. “BREAKING,” MSNBC tweeted 20 minutes after […]
Biden Marks Year Since Uvalde by Again Calling for Assault Weapons Ban
President Biden on Wednesday marked one year since the mass shooting at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas by again calling for a ban on assault weapons. Nineteen children and two adults were killed in the May 24, 2022 mass shooting in Uvalde, making it the second deadliest elementary school shooing in U.S. history, after […]
Accused Russian Money Launderer Asks to be Included in Potential Prisoner Swap
Lawyers for accused Russian money launderer Alexander Vinnik lobbied in a new court filing to include their client in any potential prisoner swap for detained Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich. Vinnik is the co-founder of a popular bitcoin exchange. He was arrested in Greece in 2017 under a U.S. warrant and extradited to the […]
Amanda Gorman Responds to Florida Parent’s Attempt to Ban her Inaugural Poem
Poet Amanda Gorman said Tuesday she was “gutted” by the push to ban her Presidential inauguration poem “The Hill We Climb” at a Miami-Dade elementary school. “I’m gutted,” the 25-year-old and first-ever National Youth Poet Laureate said in a statement posted on several social media outlets, adding that her poem was banned “because of one parent’s […]
Judge to Rule on Parents’ Protests in Nashville Shooting Case
A Tennessee county judge was poised to rule Wednesday on whether to allow the parents of this year’s Nashville school shooting to voice their opposition in court to releasing the shooter’s writings. Three children and three adults were killed in the March 27 mass shooting at the Christian private Covenant School. The shooter, 28-year-old Audrey […]
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