The U.S. military often isn’t screening recruits for extremist activity, highlighting a broader failure to tackle extremists in the ranks. The white supremacist group Patriot Front is suing – but also being sued, again. A man who threatened to kill President Biden on social media is shot and killed. And an intelligence agency reveals threats…
CNN — The Biden administration will announce on Friday its first major investment to kickstart the US carbon removal industry – something energy experts say is key to getting the country’s planet-warming emissions under control. Direct air capture removal projects are akin to huge vacuum cleaners sucking carbon dioxide out of the air, using chemicals…
When Republican Mitch McConnell stopped speaking mid-sentence for a full 28 seconds during a July press conference, it startled constituents like Michael Frazier. Frazier, a native of Powell County, Kentucky, which is in the notoriously impoverished eastern half of the state, said his first thoughts were about the longtime senator’s well-being, but then quickly pivoted…
Washington CNN — Ukraine backers on Capitol Hill are itching for President Joe Biden to step up his case for why the US should send more money to Ukraine in its fight against Russia, as warning bells sound about the American public’s support for Kyiv. White House officials are confident the $24 billion in supplemental…
TULSA, Okla. — When Apollonia Piña, a citizen of the Muscogee Nation of Oklahoma, needed Plan B four years ago, she turned to the Indian Health Care Resource Center of Tulsa, where she received her primary care. But the pharmacist there told her they didn’t carry emergency contraception. “I was like, ‘Oh, why not?’ And…
CNN — After a week of bitter court filings, federal prosecutors and Donald Trump’s defense lawyers are scheduled to appear in Washington, DC, federal court Friday morning for the first hearing before the judge assigned to oversee the special counsel’s election subversion case against the former president. Judge Tanya Chutkan has already shown a habit…
Reuters — Subway sandwiches in India will no longer come with the option of a free cheese slice following revisions to its menu that analysts say are more about cost-cutting than just a matter of taste. American chain Subway is one of the largest restaurant franchisers in India, with around 800 outlets. They now charge…
An Azerbaijani blockade along the only route connecting a breakaway region largely populated by ethnic Armenians to Armenia and the outside world, according to Catholix experts, is causing acute and potentially disastrous shortages of food, medicine, and other basic supplies for as many as 120 thousand people. The European Union, the International Committee of the…
CNN — The dayslong wildfires ravaging Hawaii’s Maui island have killed at least 53 people but the toll is expected to rise, officials said Thursday, warning the number of missing is unclear in a natural disaster the governor said could be the largest in state history. “We will continue to see loss of life,” Gov….
NEW YORK – Proposed regulations from the Biden administration to implement a piece of legislation designed to enhance workplace protections for pregnant women has drawn the ire of the U.S. bishops, as they charge the regulations could contain language to advance abortion. Passed by the Senate late last year and by the House in 2021,…