Sen. Tommy Tuberville has blocked the promotion of an Army general who is a senior aide to Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin, people familiar with the matter said, threatening a confrontation between the Republican firebrand and the Pentagon just weeks before the presidential election while reviving a months-old furor over the military chief’s medical secrecy. Tuberville (Ala.) has frozen the nomination ...
Some Republicans, including Donald Trump’s running mate JD Vance, on Monday amplified the false and dehumanizing claim that immigrants in Ohio who came into the country during the Biden-Harris administration are injuring and eating Americans’ pets. The baseless and bizarre belief drew Republicans’ attention Monday after Vance — who has long claimed that immigrants are draining resources in towns like ...
NEW YORK — Justice Elena Kagan on Monday brushed aside concerns about whether lower-court judges could effectively enforce the Supreme Court’s new ethics rules, saying those on the federal bench are more than capable of holding justices to account. “I just think judges are not so afraid of us,” Kagan said. “I think there are plenty of judges around this ...
North Carolina’s Supreme Court on Monday ruled that Robert F. Kennedy Jr. can have his name removed from election ballots in the key swing state, denying an appeal from the State Board of Elections that would have kept him on the ballot. Local election officials estimate that designing, printing and preparing new ballots without Kennedy’s name will delay the process ...
When Vice President Kamala Harris and former president Donald Trump share the debate stage Tuesday night, voters will have their first and possibly only chance to view both candidates side-by-side in a matchup that started just about seven weeks ago, when President Joe Biden dropped out of the race. The stakes are high as Harris and Trump remain locked in ...
When Pennsylvanians vote by mail, they must seal their ballots inside secrecy envelopes and place them into outer envelopes that they are required to sign and date. The ballots must be received before 8 p.m. on Election Day. Local election workers track when ballots arrive. In recent elections, if a voter misdated or forgot to date the outside envelope, their ...
Chase Bank said it was reviewing incidents of individuals who may have participated in an online check fraud ‘glitch’ trend and referring them to law enforcement authorities. Last weekend, social media saw millions of users engaging with posts suggesting an error at the bank was causing ATM machines to give users unlimited cash. In fact, the meme was prompting users ...
Israeli airstrikes in central Syria have killed three people and injured at least 15 others, state-run Syrian news agency SANA reported Sunday. SANA said there had been several explosions and “air defense engagements” in the central region of Syria, including in the Tartous and Hama governorates, that resulted in multiple civilian casualties. The Syrian news agency cited a military source ...
Filipino pastor Apollo Carreon Quiboloy, who is wanted by both the FBI and local law enforcement officers on sexual abuse and human trafficking charges, has been arrested weeks after a standoff with the police. In posts on Facebook, the Philippines’ Interior Minister Benhur Abolos, confirmed that the preacher, who had been on the run for three years, “has been caught.” ...
A man wanted for allegedly throwing scalding coffee on a baby in an unprovoked attack at a park in the northern Australian state of Queensland is now the subject of an international manhunt. Queensland Police Detective Inspector Paul Dalton said Monday that officers were working with international partners to find the man, identified as a 33-year-old foreign national, who is known to have fled the country four days after ...