2020 Atlantic hurricane season breaks another record with earliest ever ‘G’ storm
Tropical Storm Gonzalo has formed in the Atlantic Ocean, the earliest such “G” storm in hurricane season history.
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Trump deploys more federal agents under ‘law-and-order’ push
President Donald Trump announced Wednesday that he will send federal agents to Chicago and Albuquerque, New Mexico, to help combat rising crime, expanding the administration’s intervention into local enforcement as he runs for reelection under a “law-and-order” mantle.
Trump criticized for federal agents’ use of force against protestors
President Donald Trump has come under intense criticism for his unprecedented use of Department of Homeland Security troops to quell violent protests in Democrat-run cities and in Portland especially the Washington Times reported Wednesday. Local leaders have said federal troops used “significant force” against protestors and agents without badges have taken protestors away in unmarked vehicles.
Earthquake triggered Tsunami warning off Alaskan Peninsula
A magnitude 7.8 earthquake in a large section of coastal waters off the Alaskan Peninsula triggered a tsunami warning that called for local residents to evacuate to higher ground Tuesday night, Anchorage Daily News (ADN) reports. The warning was finally canceled at 12.30 am Wednesday when officials said the tsunami no longer posed a threat on land.
Google Appears To Test Its Ability To Blacklist Conservative Media Ahead Of Election
Google appeared to test its ability to blacklist conservative media Tuesday from its monopolized search engine which garners at least 3.5 billion online searches everyday making up 94 percent of the internet’s search share.
‘Taking further action’: Twitter bans thousands of QAnon accounts in sweeping crackdown
Twitter is taking new actions to curtail followers of the so-called QAnon conspiracy theory in an effort to crackdown on misinformation and harassment.
Appeals court allows Alabama voter ID law to go forward
Federal appeals judges upheld a lower court Tuesday and rejected claims that an Alabama law which requires voters to show government-issued photo identification at the polls is racially discriminatory.
GOP coronavirus package will provide new stimulus checks and $105B to open schools
Senate Republicans are crafting a new coronavirus aid package that will provide more than $100 billion to open schools, new aid for small businesses, and another round of direct payments to individuals and families, Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said Tuesday.
Trump signs memo preventing illegal immigrants from being counted in congressional redistricting
President Trump signed a memorandum that seeks to exclude illegal immigrants from being counted in the next round of congressional redistricting.
Portland church and community leaders call for talks and end of violent protest: “We hear you”
Portland community leaders have asked for a cessation of violent protest in order for discussions to take place on the issues protestors want to raise, Fox News reported Monday. Portland has been the scene of violent protests in the weeks following the police killing of George Floyd, such that federal forces were dispatched recently in a controversial quest to end the clashes and turmoil.
U.S. congressional Democrats, White House to meet on coronavirus aid
Advisers to President Donald Trump and congressional Democrats were set to discuss the next steps in responding to the coronavirus crisis on Tuesday, with congressional Republicans saying they were working on a $1 trillion relief bill.
Oregon attorney general latest to sue Homeland Security over Portland arrests
The Oregon Department of Justice is the latest institution in the state to bring legal challenges to federal agents conducting arrests in Portland over the past week.
Seattle Rioters Damage Property, Injure Police Officers
A large demonstration in downtown Seattle on July 19 devolved into a riot, with the group causing significant damage to government buildings and private businesses.
GOP signals Trump’s payroll-tax cut in Republican coronavirus bill — for now
Top administration officials signaled on Monday night that a payroll-tax cut, a top priority for President Trump, is in the forthcoming Republican coronavirus aid proposal, at least for now.
New document proves FBI totally debunked NY Times Trump-Russia story
One of the most glaringly bogus Trump-Russia stories by The New York Times in 2017 was picked apart inside the FBI at the time as containing over a dozen major inaccuracies, a newly disclosed document shows.
87-Year-Old Ruth Bader Ginsburg: ‘I Began a Course of Chemotherapy…to Treat a Recurrence of Cancer’
Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, who is 87 years old, released a statement today saying that for the past two months she has been undergoing chemotherapy to treat a recurrence of liver cancer.
CDC: 0.15% of COVID-19 Deaths in People 24 or Younger; 80.29% in People 65 and Older
Medical experts have long noted that the younger you are, the less likely you are to contract COVID-19 or suffer adverse symptoms, and the latest numbers posted by the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention bear that out.
DHS accuses Portland officials of enabling ‘mob,’ posts timeline of damage by ‘violent anarchists’
Acting Homeland Security Secretary Chad Wolf on Thursday accused Portland politicians of enabling the ‘mob’ of protesters who have besieged the city for more than six weeks — and posted a lengthy timeline of the damage caused by ‘violent anarchists.’
Mortgage rates hit new record low
Mortgage rates dropped to a new record low last week as the average interest rate for a 30-year fixed-rate mortgage, with a conforming loan balance of up to $510,400, fell from 3.26% to 3.19% to, CNBC reported Wednesday. Points fell from 0.35 to 0.33 for loans with a 20% down payment: 63 basis points lower than the recent high in late March.
Trump signed secret authorization for CIA to conduct cyber attacks
In 2018 President Trump signed a secret authorization, known as a presidential finding, which granted the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) sweeping freedom to conduct covert cyber operations against Iran and others, Yahoo News reports.