President Donald Trump reportedly plans to skip a 9/11 commemoration in Manhattan after he was barred from delivering a speech, per insiders. A New York Times report published on Thursday and co-written by Maggie Haberman revealed that Trump is not planning to attend a ceremony marking the 25th anniversary of the attack on the World Trade Center. The reporting is based on information from four anonymous insiders.
Wyoming Gov. Mark Gordon (R) expressed concern over how election monitors from the US Justice Department observed the state's primaries last week, saying it was "aggressive" and "irregular." "I have asked the attorney general to start looking into, you know, kind of the nature of the visits and all that sort of stuff," he bleated.
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U.S. District Judge Indira Talwani paused the Trump administration's plan to use the Postal Service to limit the delivery of ballots.
Two LaGuardia Airport air traffic controllers in the control tower left work early the night an Air Canada Express flight collided with an airport fire truck on the runway, according to a source familiar with the investigation into the March 22 crash. The two pilots of Air Canada Express Flight 8646 were killed when the jet collided with an airport fire truck just after landing. The fire truck had been crossing the taxiway to respond to an incident across the airport. Read more
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The classified assessment of the Kremlin's thinking preceded CIA Director John Ratcliffe's secret trip to Moscow this week.
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CIA Director John Ratcliffe's mysterious trip to Moscow this week was preceded by fresh U.S. intelligence indicating that the Kremlin sees the United States as weakened by the Iran war, offering Russia an opportunity to escalate action against American interests and allies in Europe, according to two people familiar with the matter. Read more
A man was sent to the hospital [in Danbury, CT] Thursday morning after a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent deployed a Taser on him while making an arrest, according to the mayor's office and a 911 call recording obtained by CT Insider.
A federal judge in California on Wednesday invalidated a Trump administration rule that could potentially lower wages to foreign guest workers by as much as a projected $2.46 billion annually.
Republicans have been eager for the group to start spending its massive war chest ahead of the general election.
Florida's attorney general got a fiery rebuke and some ecclesiastical schooling from the state's Catholic bishops after he boldly threatened to block funding to Catholic schools unless the church bends to the state's anti-vaccine policies -- policies allegedly intended to uphold religious freedom.
"The United States is giving serious consideration to changing the name of Lake Ontario to Lake America in that we don't expect to doing much business with Ontario any longer. Thank you for your attention to this matter!" Trump said in a post on Truth Social.
GOP lawmakers are pushing to restrict the rights of naturalized and dual citizens"including their ability to run for office.
Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. on Wednesday went as far as to suggest that the two measles deaths reported in Pennsylvania earlier this week may "have been altogether fabricated" by Democratic Gov. Josh Shapiro's team. Read more
Vanity Fair: "Robert Kiyosaki, who built an empire on the idea of getting rich, now says he's deeply in debt. Vanity Fair visits the author and friend of Trump at home in Arizona to understand the distance between the gospel of his books and his own bleeding balance sheet." Read more
A swarm of 700 OpenAI bots conspired in a cyber attack last month, an investigation has revealed, in what the AI giant called a "warning shot" to the world. Independent researchers found that hundreds of AI bots worked together to attack the technology company Hugging Face after an OpenAI agent escaped from its test environment. The researchers also found that the bots tried to cover their tracks to keep overseers from discovering what they were up to.
"The International Criminal Court (ICC) deplores the new sanctions announced by the abominable Trumpf junta against Judge Tomoko Akane (Japan), the President of the Court and Mr Abdoulaye Seye (Senegal), Senior Trial Lawyer at the Office of the Prosecutor."
The Israeli Mossad ran an intimidation campaign against ICC staff
