The autoworkers union will not expand its strike against Ford, General Motors (GM) and Stellantis, United Auto Workers (UAW) union President Shawn Fain said during a live stream on Friday. Over the past 24 hours, two of the “Big Three” automakers made new offers to the autoworkers union as its strike stretches into its fifth...
Independent presidential candidate Cornel West said Friday he returned a controversial donation from Harlan Crow — the billionaire with controversial links to Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas. “How sad that perceptions so quickly triumph over truth in our decadent culture,” West said in a post on X, the platform formerly known as Twitter. “This holds in...
Republican presidential candidate Perry Johnson on Friday announced he is suspending his long-shot bid for the White House in 2024, blasting “corruption” in the Republican National Committee (RNC) after he didn't make the party's debate stage. “With no opportunity to share my vision on the debate stage, I have decided at this time, suspending my...
The Supreme Court said Friday it will consider a social media censorship case brought against Biden administration officials in its next term, setting up a legal battle with resounding implications for online speech. The high court also issued a stay in an injunction ordered by the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, pausing its effect until the justices decide...
Ella Irwin, a former employee for Twitter, now known as X, said working for billionaire Elon Musk after his acquisition of the company was the "hardest experience." Irwin became head of trust and safety for the company, lasting only seven more months before resigning after Musk publicly criticized actions taken at the company surrounding the...
The No Labels political organization, which continues to push for a third party presidential candidate, filed a lawsuit in Arizona to block Democrats from using its ballot line Thursday. The suit attempts to bar Arizona Secretary of State Adrian Fontes (D) from letting candidates run for office under the group's banner — with the exception...
The federal budget deficit rose to $1.7 trillion in fiscal 2023, according to data released Friday by the Treasury Department. The gulf between how much money the federal government spent and made in revenue rose by $320 billion between fiscal 2023 — which ended September 30 — and the previous fiscal year. The fiscal 2023...
It’s the Trump playbook: do whatever it takes to undermine your opponent and then play a game of chicken, forcing the other guy to duck. But Jordan is not Trump.
Montgomery County councilmember Will Jawando announced Friday that he is dropping out of the race to replace outgoing Sen. Ben Cardin (D-Md.). Jawando said he could “no longer see a path for myself to victory,” in a crowded primary field led by Rep. David Trone (D-Md.) and Prince George’s County Executive Angela Alsobrooks. “I’m proud...
Building publicly owned drug manufacturing aligns with President Biden’s commitment to a new industrial policy that brings manufacturing back to the U.S.
Tesla announced a recall for some of its vehicles over a potential brake fluid safety issue. The recall notice will affect 55,000 of its Model X vehicles from 2021-23, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) said. The car may be unable to detect low brake fluid and not display a warning light, failing to...
Sen. John Fetterman (D-Pa.) and seven House Democrats asked the Government Accountability Office (GAO) to review potential environmental damages caused by idled coal mines. So-called zombie mines are often technically active under the law but have not been used for extraction for months or years, and due to lack of maintenance, they may be at...
The Rafah border crossing wait continues, despite multiple parties involved signaling a potential Friday border opening to deliver aid to civilians in Gaza. According to Ambassador Ahmed Abu Zeid, the spokesperson for Egypt's Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Egypt is not responsible for the border crossing closure, and Israel is the country at fault for stopping...
Former Florida state Rep. Joseph Harding (R) was sentenced to four months in prison Friday for his involvement in a COVID-19 relief fraud scheme. Harding, 36, of Williston, Fla., was sentenced to four months in federal prison for wire fraud, money laundering and making false statements in connection to pandemic-relief fraud, the Office of the...
Although the new agreement would ease transatlantic data flows and limit U.S. intelligence access to sensitive personal data, it now faces an uphill battle in European courts.
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has finalized a rule that will tighten the reporting requirements for facilities that use or release certain types of toxic “forever chemicals.” With the rule’s implementation, the EPA is now designating 189 of these PFAS compounds — of which there are thousands — as “chemicals of special concern.” Doing so, the agency explained, will...
An American woman and her daughter taken Hostage by Hamas from Israel were released on Friday, with the U.S.-designated terrorist group saying it had made the decision for humanitarian reasons, according to the organization and media reports. Abu Obaida, a spokesperson for Hamas’s military wing, the Al-Qassam Brigades, confirmed in a statement that the two...
Former President Trump will hold a rally in Florida on the night of the third Republican presidential primary debate next month, his campaign announced Friday. While some of Trump's big-name rivals are debating in Miami on Nov. 8, the former president will hold a rally with supporters in Hialeah, located roughly 15 miles away. The...
The European Union (EU) sent formal requests to Meta and TikTok on Thursday for details about their handling of disinformation and illegal content, as the bloc ramps up pressure on social media companies to comply with its new online regulations. Both companies received warning letters from EU Commissioner Thierry Breton last week, following the outbreak...
The judge in former President Trump’s New York civil fraud trial threatened to hold him in contempt Friday over a deleted Truth Social post. The post, aimed at a court staffer, was deleted by Trump in the wake of an order by Judge Arthur Engoron. Trump’s campaign copied the former president’s message in an email...
For more than a decade, the phrase “job-killing regulations” was a prominent part of any discussion of the American economy.
President Biden on Friday predicted trucks carrying humanitarian aid will enter Gaza within the next 48 hours amid concerns that the assistance has been blocked from crossing the border there. "I got a commitment from the Israelis and the president of Egypt that the crossing will be open,” Biden told reporters during a meeting with...
Israel cannot be handed carte blanche to bomb away its problems. A real political solution is the only way forward.
Kenneth Chesebro, an attorney who wrote a series of memos devising the Trump campaign’s alternate electors strategy in 2020, pleaded guilty to one felony Friday after reaching a deal with Georgia prosecutors in their election interference case. Chesebro, 62, was set to go to trial on Monday and would have become the first defendant in...
As we celebrate Free Speech Week 2023 (Oct. 16-22), the state of global internet freedom stands in stark contrast to this deeply cherished American value. According to the just-released Freedom on the Net report, internet freedom has declined for the 13th consecutive year. Alarmingly, China retains its title as the “world’s worst environment for internet freedom,”...
