U.S. Grid Operator Declares Level One Emergency Amid Record Heat

PJM Interconnection, the biggest U.S. electric grid operator, issued a Level One emergency alert for Thursday as Americans power up their air conditioners against record heat levels.   The Energy Emergency Alert Level 1 went into effect at 5am ET Thursday amid concerns by JPM about sustaining its required Contingency Reserves. PJM oversees the energy supply […]

Biden to Announce New Protections against Record Heat 

President Biden on Thursday was set to announce new steps to protect workers and others against dangerous heat conditions as the nation experiences Earth’s hottest July on record.  According to a White House statement, measures the Biden Administration will be undertaking include asking the Labor Department to issue the “first-ever Hazard Alert for heat,” and […]

African Leaders Seek Grain Commitments at Russia Summit

Leaders among 17 African nations were set to press President Vladimir Putin for concrete promises of grain at the 2023 Russia-Africa Summit in St. Petersburg starting Thursday.  The ten-day event kicked off about two weeks after Russia dissolved the United Nations-backed Black Sea Grain Initiative that allowed Ukraine to ship grain to other countries despite […]

McConnell says he’s “Fine” After Freezing During News Conference

Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) told reporters he was “fine” after freezing during his weekly news conference Wednesday and was briefly escorted away.  McConnell stopped speaking in the middle of remarks during the regularly scheduled news conference on Capitol Hill. He took a roughly 30-second pause, during which his colleagues crowded around him, quietly […]

Fed Raises Interest Rate to Highest in More than 2 Decades

The Federal Reserve on Wednesday hiked a key interest rate by a quarter of a percentage point to its highest level in 22 years. Following the Central Bank’s two-day policy meeting, it announced the Fed’s target rate would rise to between 5.25% and 5.5%. Analysts had raised questions earlier this month whether the Fed would undertake […]

Federal Judge Blocks Mississippi Law Regarding Absentee Ballots

A federal judge Tuesday blocked a Mississippi law that would make it a crime for certain individuals to help another person with absentee voting.  Judge Henry Wingate of the Southern District of Mississippi wrote in his order that the state cannot enforce the law during this year’s primaries—for which or the general election.  “The voting […]

Texas Sued over Public School Ban on Books

A coalition of booksellers, authors and publishers filed suit Tuesday seeking to block a new Texas state law that bans “sexually explicit” books from public schools.  The suit was filed in federal court in Austin against a law passed in the Republican-led legislature in May that’s set to take effect in September.  The law requires […]

Russia Raises its Military Conscription Age to 30 Amid War with Ukraine

Russia on Tuesday raised its maximum age of military conscription from 27 to 30 as it continues to wage its now 17-month-long war against its sovereign neighbor, Ukraine.  The bill, passed in the Kremlin’s lower house, seeks to replenish Russia’s forces on the front lines in Ukraine without resorting to another military mobilization. During a […]

Israel’s Supreme Court to Review Law Limiting its Power

Israel’s Supreme Court announced Wednesday that it would hear appeals against a new law that restricts its power, setting up a showdown with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s coalition government. Lawmakers in Israeli parliament, called the Knesset, voted late Monday to pass the first in a series of judicial reforms, which included stripping the Supreme Court […]

Rudy Giuliani Admits he Defamed Georgia Election Workers

Former Trump attorney Rudy Giuliani admitted in a late-night Tuesday court filing that he defamed Georgia election workers, mother and daughter Ruby Freeman and Shaye Moss. In the filing in U.S. District Court in DC, “Defendant Giuliani concedes solely for purposes of this litigation before this Court and on Appeal: that Defendant Giuliani made statements […]

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