Get ready for more of this smoke
Millions of people from the Midwest to the Northeast and down to the mid-Atlantic are looking at an unhealthy smoky haze slowly drifting down from Canada. Schools and activities are being canceled in an effort to protect those most at risk. And there's not much anyone can do about it.
2023-06-08 05:58
Christie on Trump: 'Turns out I was wrong'
Former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie said Wednesday he was "wrong" about former President Donald Trump, whom he twice supported and advised ahead of the 2020 election.
2023-06-08 04:57
Massive fire as Sudanese factions battle for control of arms factory
KHARTOUM (Reuters) -A massive fire broke out on Wednesday near a military complex containing an arms factory in southern Khartoum
2023-06-08 04:55
DeSantis news – latest: Conservative and independent millionaires back Florida governor over Trump, says poll
Javier Salazar, the sheriff of Bexar County, Texas, is recommending criminal charges against those involved with flights that sent 49 mostly Venezuelan migrants from El Paso to Martha’s Vineyard last year, what was widely derided as a political stunt orchestrated by Florida governor Ron DeSantis. A statement from the sheriff’s office says it has completed an investigation launched last September and recommended several counts of unlawful restraint, both misdemeanours and felonies, to the office of the Bexar County district attorney. Meanwhile, Casey DeSantis, Florida’s first lady and the wife of the aspiring Republican presidential candidate, has been branded a “Walmart Melania” after she wore a leather jacket emblazoned with a map of the Sunshine State, an alligator and the legend “Where woke goes to die” during a campaign stop in Iowa to promote her husband. Elsewhere, a Vice documentary about the candidate’s earlier career as a US Navy lawyer serving at the Guantanamo Bay detention facility in Cuba has been mysteriously dropped from Showtime’s schedules, according to The Hollywood Reporter, with no explanation given. Read More Federal judge blocks DeSantis ban on gender-affirming care for Florida trans youth: ‘Gender identity is real’ Chris Christie gave Trump legitimacy. Now he can’t stop Trump in 2024 Mike Pence suffered the wrath of Trump. Now the ex-vice president wants his old boss’s job in 2024
2023-06-08 04:20
Missouri governor signs gender-affirming care ban for minors and anti-trans sports bill
Missouri's Republican Gov. Mike Parson on Wednesday signed into law two bills targeting the rights of transgender people in the state, including a ban on gender-affirming care for minors and a prohibition on trans women and girls from playing on sports teams that align with their gender.
2023-06-08 04:00
Watchdog report finds former Pentagon official created a toxic work environment
A newly released Defense Department inspector general investigation found that a former senior Pentagon leader berated and belittled subordinates, cursed at them, made some employees cry, and generally created a toxic work environment.
2023-06-08 03:48
Financial disclosures show Supreme Court justices traveled extensively in 2022
Supreme Court Justices Amy Coney Barrett, Brett Kavanaugh and Neil Gorsuch were flown to Italy. Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson received a $1,200 "congratulatory floral arrangement" from Oprah Winfrey. And Justice Sonia Sotomayor received nearly $150,000 in book royalties from her publisher.
2023-06-08 03:20
Hunter Biden's lawyers hope federal court ruling staves off possible gun-related charge against president's son
Hunter Biden's lawyers hope a recent federal appeals court ruling on access to firearms could help convince the Justice Department not to bring a gun-related prosecution against the president's son, sources close to his legal team tell CNN.
2023-06-08 02:55
FBI is willing to allow full Oversight Committee to review Biden-related document
The FBI is willing to allow the full House Oversight Committee to review an internal law enforcement document that includes an unverified allegation that Joe Biden, while vice president, was involved in a bribery scheme involving a foreign national, sources familiar with the decision tell CNN.
2023-06-08 02:16
DeSantis visits southern border -- and seizes immigration issue in GOP race through executive power
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis will travel to southern Arizona on Wednesday -- his first visit to the US-Mexico border as a presidential candidate -- a day after taking credit for a pair of flights that recently carried migrants from Texas to California.
2023-06-08 01:54
Former Trump White House aide Alyssa Farah Griffin interviewed by federal prosecutors in Jan. 6 probe
Alyssa Farah Griffin, a former White House communications director during the Trump administration who is now a CNN political commentator, voluntarily met with federal prosecutors in recent weeks, sitting for a formal interview as part of the ongoing special counsel probe related to January 6 and the former president's efforts to overturn the 2020 election, according to multiple sources familiar with the matter.
2023-06-08 01:50
Pence announces presidential run: 'Different times call for different leadership'
Former Vice President Mike Pence announced he's running for president on Wednesday, setting up a battle for the Republican nomination with his former boss, Donald Trump.
2023-06-08 01:48