Biden seeks to tighten U.S.-India ties at G-20

President Biden was set to arrive at the Group of 20 (G-20) Summit in New Delhi Friday with a reported aim of strengthening ties between the U.S. and India amid the two nations’ concerns over China. Biden hosted India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi at a White House state visit this past June, noting at the […]

Former Trump advisor Peter Navarro found guilty of contempt of Congress

A federal jury in Washington DC has found former Trump advisor Peter Navarro guilty of two counts of criminal contempt of Congress. Last year’s House Select January 6 Committee first subpoenaed Navarro for records and testimony in February 2022 as part of its investigation into the insurrection which stemmed from efforts to overturn Biden’s 2020 […]

Fani Willis seeks protections for Georgia jurors

Fulton County, Georgia District Attorney Fani Willis on Wednesday asked Superior Court Judge Scott McAfee to take steps to protect the jurors who indicted former President Trump and 18 co-defendants from doxing threats. Willis asked McAfee to prohibit defendants, the news media or anyone else from creating or publishing images—including video, photos and drawings—of jurors, […]

Watchdog finds Border Wall caused “significant” environmental damage

The wall on the U.S.-Mexico border advanced by former President Trump caused “significant” harm to the environment and on Native American Cultural sites, according to a report released Thursday by the Government Accountability Office (GAO). The report says that some 450 miles of border wall was erected between 2017 and January 2021. Before construction began, “the […]

Senate Democrats look to work around Tuberville’s military blocks

Since the Senate returned from August break this week, some Democrats in the chamber have reportedly been speculating ways to get around a block on military promotions by Sen. Tommy Tuberville (R-AL). Tuberville has been systemically blocking military promotions in protest of the government’s funding to cover travel costs for abortions for service members and their […]

Mitch McConnell vows to finish his term

Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) on Wednesday insisted he had no plans to step aside amid questions about his health.  “I’m going to finish my term as leader and I’m going to finish my Senate term,” McConnell said during his weekly news conference. His current Senate term ends January 3, 2027. Concerns about the […]

Top Paxton aide connects extramarital affair to impeachment charges

Jeff Mateer, former second-in-command in the office of Texas Attorney General, testified Wednesday that an extramarital affair Ken Paxton had with a donor’s employee helped connect Paxton to the charges for which he was impeached. At the Texas State Senate’s impeachment trial Wednesday, Mateer said that the affair “answered that ‘why’ question.” In 2020 Mateer, […]

Russia denounces U.S. plan to send Ukraine depleted uranium munitions

Russia on Thursday denounced the Pentagon’s latest $175 million security assistance plan, which includes depleted uranium munitions for Abrams tanks. Depleted uranium is left over when most of the highly radioactive isotopes of uranium have been stripped out of the metal for use in nuclear fuel or nuclear weapons. It is far less radioactive than […]

Biden cancels Alaska Arctic Refuge drilling leases

President Biden on Wednesday announced that his Administration was canceling the seven remaining oil and gas leases in Alaska’s Arctic National Wildlife refuge, overturning sales made in the ending days of the Trump Administration.  The Department of the Interior said the action was part of the Administration’s “historic conservation and climate agenda,” adding that the […]

Judge says no delay in New York civil trial against Trump

Judge Arthur Engoron of the Supreme Court 1st Judicial District in New York said that state’s $250 million lawsuit against former President Trump and his company will go forth without delay. Nearly a year ago, New York Attorney General Letitia James filed suit against Trump, his companies and its officers including several of Trump’s adult […]

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