Russia fines Google over alleged “fake news” YouTube videos about Ukraine war
A Moscow judge fined internet giant Google 3 million rubles (about $32,000) on Thursday for failing to delete YouTube videos the Kremlin says are fake news regarding Russia’s war in Ukraine. Google owner Alphabet Inc. reported a net worth of $1663 billion this year. The Kremlin ordered Google to delete the videos, which it said […]
U.S. sanctions Russians over poisoning of Alexei Navalny
The Treasury Department on Thursday imposed sanctions on four Russians over the poisoning of imprisoned opposition leader Alexei Navalny. According to a Treasury Department statement, the four men sanctioned were members of Russia’s intelligence agency, the Federal Security Service, or FSB: Alexey Alexandrovich Alexandrov, Konstantin Kudryavtsev, Ivan Vladimirovich Osipov and Vladimir Alexandrovich Panyaev. “Today […]
DOJ raises conflict of interest concerns with Trump aide’s legal representation
Special Counsel Jack Smith has raised concerns that Carlos De Oliveira, co-defendant in former President Trump’s classified documents case, may not be getting adequate legal representation. De Oliveira is the property manager at Trump’s Florida country club residence, Mar-a-Lago, the site of an August, 2022 FBI raid that uncovered at least 100 classified documents Trump […]
New York City bans TikTok on government devices
New York City Mayor Eric Adams (D) on Thursday banned the Chinese-owned video sharing app TikTok on government-owned devices. In a statement the Adams administration said that TikTok “posed a security threat to the city’s technical networks.” New York State banned TikTok on government devices at the state level three years ago. It’s one of […]
Blinken speaks with Paul Whelan, wrongfully detained American in Russia
Secretary of State Antony Blinken spoke Wednesday with Paul Whelan, a U.S. citizen wrongfully detained in a Russian penal colony. According to a source familiar with the call, Blinken told Whelan to “keep the faith and we’re doing everything we can to bring you home as soon as possible.” A former U.S. Marine, Whelan was […]
New study finds increased number of deaths in U.S. from hurricanes
Hurricanes in the U.S. have killed thousands more people in the past few decades than traditionally calculated, according to a new study from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). The study, published Wednesday in the journal Science Advances, found that between 1988 and 2019 more than 18,000 people died, most indirectly, due to hurricanes […]
Biden hoping to warm Japan-South Korea relations at Camp David
President Biden on Friday plans to use the site of Presidential retreat Camp David to entice more cooperation between Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida and South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol. Relations between the two Asia-Pacific leaders have been cool despite their nations’ common adversaries in the region: China and North Korea. Both nations have in […]
Hawaii Governor vows to protect wildfire victims from land-grabbers
Hawaii Gov. Josh Green (D) said Wednesday he instructed the state attorney general to put a moratorium on land transactions in wildfire-ravaged Lahaina. The governor vowed at his news conference to protect local landowners from being “victimized” by opportunistic buyers as the island of Maui rebuilds from this week’s devastating wildfires. The flames erupted early […]
North Carolina lawmakers override governor’s vetoes of bills targeting transgender youth
The Republican supermajority in North Carolina’s state legislature Wednesday evening voted to override vetoes from Gov. Roy Cooper (D) to enact three bills targeting transgender youth. The state House and Senate override votes passed largely along party lines, making three bills state law: one that bans doctors from providing gender-affirming care for minors, one that […]
Woman charged with threatening Judge Chutkan in Trump’s federal 2020 election case
A Texas woman has been charged with threatening to kill Judge Tanya Chutkan of the U.S. District Court in DC, who’s overseeing former President Trump’s case surrounding attempts to overturn the 2020 election. Abigail Jo Shry called the judge’s chambers on August 5 and left a voicemail threatening to “kill anyone who went after former […]
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