Vice President Kamala Harris will be interviewed by Stephanie Ruhle in Pittsburgh Wednesday night, in what will be her first one-on-one network interview since becoming the Democratic nominee. The interview will air on MSNBC at 7 p.m. ET and coincides with Harris’ fourth visit to the area since launching her campaign, according to a news […]
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The all-important Battleground States
U.S. Presidential elections are sprawling affairs, with mail-in voting that begins weeks ahead of Election Day on Nov. 5 and in-person voting that begins at midnight that Tuesday in the small New Hampshire town of Dixville Notch and continues until voting ends at 7 p.m. in the Hawaiian-Aleutian time zone, already the next day back […]
Arrests made after first suicide in ‘Sarco pod’
Police in northern Switzerland say several people have been detained and a criminal case opened in connection with the suspected death of a person in a new “suicide capsule”. The “Sarco” capsule, which has never been used before, is designed to allow a person inside to push a button that injects nitrogen gas into the […]
US deploys warships to intercept Russian & Chinese flotilla
A Russian-Chinese flotilla sailed toward the Northern Pacific Ocean on Monday while the United States deployed two warships for homeland defense operations to protect Alaska. According to the Japanese Defense Ministry, a total of nine Russian and Chinese warships transited the La Perouse Strait, a designated international waterway known as the Soya Strait, eastward from […]
Israeli airstrikes kill nearly 200 in Lebanon
Missiles slammed into southern Lebanon, shattering the early-morning silence Monday and reportedly killing almost 200 people as Israel said it was targeting Hezbollah weapons hidden in residential buildings. The explosions came as Israel heralded a new wave of attacks on the Iran-backed group in Lebanon, warning civilians to flee from any buildings or areas where […]
$1.2 trillion infrastucture bill has produced little
Democrats have touted the infrastructure bill Congress passed in 2021 as a signature accomplishment of the Biden-Harris administration, but some of its ambitious projects have fallen far short of expectations nearly three years after President Joe Biden signed it into law. A massive program to expand rural broadband access has failed so far to connect […]
Janet Yellen issues warning; ‘Don’t vote Trump’
Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen has warned that “veering off course” in the 2024 election could inflict significant damage on the economy. Yellen said that there were several signs of life in the economy under the Biden-Harris administration, and that turning away from those successes in November could “jeopardize our economic trajectory,” in a tacit endorsement […]
Hezbollah & Israel exchage heavy fire
Israel and Hezbollah exchanged heavy fire into Sunday, with Israeli warplanes carrying out the most intense bombardment in almost a year of conflict across Lebanon’s south and Hezbollah firing rockets deep into northern Israel.Israeli Defence Minister Yoav Gallant said strikes would continue until it was safe for evacuated people in the north to return – […]
Gov. Gretchen Whitmer calls Trump ‘Deranged’
Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer (D) said on Sunday former President Trump is “just deranged” after he said women won’t be thinking about abortion if he’s elected in November. “That’s just ludicrous,” Whitmer, a co-chair of the Harris-Walz campaign, said in an interview on “State of the Union” with CNN’s Jake Tapper about Trump’s remarks. She […]
Harris accepts & Trump rejects new CNN debate
Donald Trump on Saturday rejected another debate with Vice President Kamala Harris before the U.S. presidential election, hours after the Democratic candidate’s campaign said she had agreed to an Oct. 23 matchup with her Republican rival on CNN. “Vice President Harris is ready for another opportunity to share a stage with Donald Trump, and she […]
If Governments can kill with phones, are we safe?
For years, Hezbollah leaders urged their rank-and-file to reduce reliance on smartphones, arguing that Israel was able to bug those devices to infiltrate their communication network. The alternative was to go back to the 1990s-era technology of pagers and walkie-talkies, seen as a safer option. Hezbollah believed that the limited capabilities of pagers allowed them […]
Beware; EU’s Digital Services Act may come here
n the 1940s, people like had to travel to small board meetings or public spaces to speak their mind. Today, the vast majority of political speech occurs over the Internet and specifically social media. That is why the internet is the single greatest advancement for free speech since the printing press. It is also the […]