The legal debate about whether or not former President Donald Trump should be allowed to appear on the 2024 ballot has made its way before the Supreme Court. The court distributed John Castro v. Donald Trump to the justices for conference on Wednesday ahead of the upcoming term, which will begin on October 2. Conference […]
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Squatters leave 100’s of lbs of feces in city
Homeless squatters in Casper, Wyoming, “destroyed” a local motel, which would require millions of dollars to repair, and left hundreds of pounds of human feces in the downtown area, according to the city’s mayor. “It’s like nothing I’ve ever seen. It’s third-world-country stuff happening in Casper, Wyoming,” Mayor Bruce Knell told the Cowboy State Daily […]
Chinese nationals are spying on US bases
Chinese nationals, sometimes posing as tourists, have accessed military bases and other sensitive sites in the U.S. as many as 100 times in recent years, according to U.S. officials, who describe the incidents as a potential espionage threat. The Defense Department, FBI and other agencies held a review last year to try to limit these […]
Montana town deals with homeless camps
This city boasts more than 400 acres of parks, many of which line the roaring Clark Fork River. Recently, they have become full of homeless people. Some 600 people without homes live in the Northern Rockies college town, triple the number of a decade ago, many of them in tents in city parks. Their presence […]
Many in Oregon want secession
Mike McCarter knows his American history almost as well as he knows his Bible. His family has lived and worshipped in Oregon for four generations. “The only time I lived out of the state was during the Vietnam War when I was in the military,” he said. But his Oregon may not be the […]
This year’s Burning Man festival is a mud pit
There are currently “a little over 70,000” people stranded at the Burning Man festival in Nevada due to the mud and flooding, Pershing County Sheriff’s Sgt. Nathan Carmichael told CNN on Sunday. The last few days of rain have created conditions that are “very greasy, very muddy” and the mud “seems to stick to people, […]
Texas drunk drivers must pay child support if parent killed
A new law in Texas requires convicted drunk drivers to pay child support if they kill a child’s parent or guardian, according to House Bill 393. The law, which went into effect Friday, says those convicted of intoxication manslaughter must pay restitution. The offender will be expected to make those payments until the child is […]
Putin ally says Tucker Carlson to be assasinated
A prominent Russian propagandist has claimed that former Fox News anchor Tucker Carlson is a “dead man walking” for saying that the U.S. and Russia will go to war with one another in the next year. The Rossiya-1 talk show host Vladimir Solovyov justified his own prophesizing of an armed conflict between the two nations […]
Biden to take the ‘short stairs” to Air Force 1
It’s one of the iconic images of the American presidency: the commander in chief, standing and waving to the cameras from the top of the stairs leading into Air Force One. But recently, President Biden has been avoiding climbing up the sometimes-wobbly 18-foot staircase that is trucked over to the plane’s upper door. More often […]
Zelensky pushes US for long term security deal “like Israel”
As Ukraine’s counteroffensive grinds on, officials far away from the frontlines in Washington and Kyiv are quietly negotiating a formal alliance that could reshape Europe’s security landscape. The negotiations have been overshadowed by Kyiv’s push this summer to retake Russian-held territory in southern Ukraine, but the discussions drew fresh attention recently when Ukrainian President Volodymyr […]
Canada warns LGBTQ+ citizens, don’t visit US
Canada has warned LGBTQ+ citizens traveling to the U.S. that they may face discrimination if they visit some states. A travel advisory issued by Global Affairs Canada on Tuesday morning said: “Some states have enacted laws and policies that may affect 2SLGBTQI+ [two spirit, lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans, queer or questioning, intersex, and more] persons.” […]
Hurricane Idalia makes landfall in Florida
The center of Hurricane Idalia has slammed Florida’s Gulf Coast at dangerous Category 3 strength, inflicting deadly storm surge and catastrophic winds not seen in this region in 125 years while promising untold devastation far beyond the landfall zone. Idalia moved ashore midmorning Wednesday near Keaton Beach in the Big Bend area – where the […]