Impact Plastics said several employees died in the flooding from Helene. The TBI is investigating after several employees disputed the company's response. read more
The administration of former President Donald Trump obstructed an investigation looking into why officials withheld about $20 billion in hurricane relief for Puerto Rico following the devastating aftermath of Hurricane Maria in 2017, one of the deadliest U.S. natural disasters in over 100 years, a new report says. A Department of Housing and Urban Development Office of Inspector General report made public Thursday also found that tensions between the department and the Office of Management and Budget resulted in unprecedented procedural hurdles that produced delays in the disbursement of the congressionally approved funds. read more
We really didn't want to write about this, at least not right now. People are suffering, and some of them are dying, due to Hurricane Helene. It feels vulgar to us to begin talking about the political implications of that. Unfortunately for us, vulgar is Donald Trump's stock in trade. Trump might not be the sharpest tool in the shed, but he knows enough to know two things: (1) He really needs to win North Carolina and Georgia in November, and (2) Helene is battering both states. So, he is working overtime to try to capitalize on this "opportunity," as he sees it. read more
During his presidency, Donald Trump talked repeatedly about the terrorist attacks that occurred in the United States on his watch. He sometimes denounced these attacks in vivid detail. In his 2018 State of the Union address, he spoke of "two terrorist attacks in New York" in "recent weeks." He visited Pittsburgh and El Paso after terror attacks there. He invited survivors of a California attack to the White House. Now, though, he keeps saying he presided over no terror attacks at all. read more
The foreign ministers of Jordan, Egypt and Iraq have "condemned the Israeli aggression on Lebanon" in a joint statement and warned that Israel is pushing the region toward an "all-out war." The ministers met on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly in New York yesterday, where they urged the international community and the Security Council to "assume their relevant responsibilities to stop the war." "Israel bears full responsibility for this deterioration, which will have serious consequences for the entire region," they said Wednesday. read more
They destroyed the border
"The former president has claimed credit for killing the bill during his own stump speeches, telling supporters they can "blame it on me" during a January campaign stop in Nevada. The legislation " which was co-authored by Murphy along with Lankford and Sen. Kyrsten Sinema (I-Arizona) " would have hired thousands of new border agents and given the president the authority to close the border altogether if illegal crossings topped a set weekly threshold. However, Republicans quickly mobilized against it after Trump suggested anyone who supported it would face a primary challenger.
Lankford, who is considered one of the most conservative members of the Senate Republican Conference, became a prime target for Republicans due to his work on the immigration bill. He noted in a floor speech that an unnamed conservative commentator threatened to "destroy" him for trying to address the border in an election year.
"[T]hey have been faithful to their promise and have done everything they can to destroy me in the past several weeks," Lankford said in February."
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