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Top News Stories for Thursday, November 21st 2024
Wednesday, Nov 20th, 2024 -
Republican lawmakers jockeying to lead House committees in the next Congress are touting their loyalty to President-elect Donald Trump as much as their ability to advance policy priorities as they make appeals to colleagues over the next two weeks. With scores of members competing for a few key positions , contenders believe that success could hinge on their ability to show just how well-positioned they are to ...
Source: news.yahoo.com
Wednesday, Nov 20th, 2024 -
Warning comes as Biden agrees to supply anti-personnel landmines to Ukraine, days after lifting restrictions on use of long-range missiles The US has temporarily closed its embassy in Kyiv after receiving warning of a "potential significant air attack", advising American citizens to be prepared to move immediately to a shelter in the event of an air raid warning. Such warnings are rare and likely to be based on ...
Source: theguardian.com
Wednesday, Nov 20th, 2024 -
Facing President-elect Donald Trump's promised mass deportation of immigrants in the country illegally, the Los Angeles City Council on Tuesday tentatively backed a "sanctuary city" law that forbids city employees and resources from being involved in federal immigration enforcement. Because the law, which passed unanimously, was amended during the council meeting, a second vote is required in the coming days. The ...
Source: latimes.com
Wednesday, Nov 20th, 2024 -
As President-elect Donald Trump rolls out his controversial Cabinet picks, he has demanded the Republican-led Senate take extended breaks to allow him to make recess appointments rather than subject his nominees to an extensive public vetting process and upper chamber approval. Trump's demand not only tests congressional Republicans' willingness to uphold checks and balances over bending to the ...
Source: salon.com
Wednesday, Nov 20th, 2024 -
HONG KONG — Hong Kong democrat and media tycoon Jimmy Lai testified Wednesday for the first time in his landmark national security trial , saying he had never tried to influence the foreign policy of countries such as the United States, towards China and Hong Kong. The arrest of Lai, 76, a British and Hong Kong citizen and a founder of the now-shuttered pro-democracy newspaper Apple Daily , is ...
Source: nbcnews.com
Wednesday, Nov 20th, 2024 -
Thousands of disgruntled British farmers marched on London on Tuesday in protest at government plans to change the law regarding the amount of inheritance tax farmers should pay. The demonstrations saw tractors driven by farmers and coach loads of other agricultural workers from the United Kingdom's four nations of England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland descend on Parliament Square, to stage a large-scale ...
Source: aljazeera.com
Tuesday, Nov 19th, 2024 -
Every knowledgeable observer of the Nippon Steel-U.S. Steel drama knows that the politics of the presidential election had warped what should have been a simple decision: to approve the best available offer for the legacy American steel company, and the only one likely to keep steel manufacturing in the Steel City. With the election and all its political pressures behind us, President Joe Biden should approve ...
Source: post-gazette.com
Tuesday, Nov 19th, 2024 -
Republican Rep. Nancy Mace (S.C.) introduced a measure to ban transgender women from using the women's bathrooms at the Capitol, just weeks after the state of Delaware elected the . The resolution , if adopted, would prohibit those in Congress, officers and employees of the House of Representatives from using single-sex facilities "other than those corresponding to their biological sex." Mace said Tuesday that ...
Source: huffpost.com
Tuesday, Nov 19th, 2024 -
A Hong Kong Court sentenced 45 pro-democracy activists to jail terms of up to 10 years on Tuesday, in the first-ever mass sentencing since Beijing imposed a controversial national security law on the semi-autonomous Chinese city. The activists were among 47 people arrested in 2021 for organising unofficial primary elections to choose pro-democracy legislative candidates. Authorities alleged the action violated the ...
Source: aljazeera.com
Tuesday, Nov 19th, 2024 -
WASHINGTON (AP) — President-elect Donald Trump has chosen Sean Duffy to become transportation secretary in his new administration, positioning him to oversee a complex system that includes pipelines, railroads, cars, trucks, airlines and mass transit systems, as well as funding for highways. Here are some things to know about Duffy. He is a former member of Congress Duffy, 53, is an attorney who represented ...
Source: apnews.com
Tuesday, Nov 19th, 2024 -
President-elect Donald Trump has named the next—and possibly the nation's last—education secretary. Trump on Tuesday night announced the pick on Truth Social, his social media platform, saying in part, "Linda has been a fierce advocate for Parents' Rights, working hard at both AFPI [America First Policy Institute] and America First Works (AFW) to achieve Universal School Choice in 12 States, giving ...
Source: newsweek.com
Tuesday, Nov 19th, 2024 -
The outgoing American leader arrived for a family picture with world leaders during his final Group of 20 summit Monday, only to find the photo had already been taken without him. Chinese President Xi Jinping, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi and British Prime Minister Keir Starmer were among those who did make it, smiling and raising linked hands for the traditional summit set piece. "Due to logistical issues, ...
Source: news.yahoo.com
Tuesday, Nov 19th, 2024 -
on the promise of mass deportations, and on Monday, he said that his administration would use the U.S. military to carry out this expulsion of millions of people, many of whom have lived in America for years or even decades. The U.S. military historically has not conducted immigration enforcement and does not normally conduct law enforcement functions. But when Tom Fitton, president of the ...
Source: theintercept.com
Tuesday, Nov 19th, 2024 -
Lawyers for Sean "Diddy" Combs warned they may seek to have his sex-trafficking case dismissed because prosecutors caught a glimpse of a handwritten "to-do list" the rap mogul kept in his Brooklyn jail cell. The to-do list— jotted by Combs on a white legal pad, to memorialize jailhouse conversations with his attorneys — was secretly photographed and then returned to his cell by Bureau of Prisons ...
Source: businessinsider.com
Tuesday, Nov 19th, 2024 -
TUESDAY, Nov. 19, 2024 (HealthDay News) -- Two Wyoming abortion bans, including the first state law to prohibit the use of abortion pills, violate the state's constitution, a judge ruled Monday. In her decision, Judge Melissa Owens , of Teton County District Court, wrote that both a ban on medication abortion and a broader ban on all methods of abortion "impede the fundamental right to make health care decisions ...
Source: healthday.com
Tuesday, Nov 19th, 2024 -
Tens of thousands of people have marched on the New Zealand parliament in Wellington to protest against a bill that critics say strikes at the core of the country's founding principles and dilutes the rights of Māori people. The Hīkoi mō te Tiriti march began nine days ago in New Zealand's far north and crossed the length of the North Island in one of the country's biggest protests in recent decades. ...
Source: cnn.com
Tuesday, Nov 19th, 2024 -
Within hours of the disaster, Biden said the federal government will pay for the entire cost of reconstructing that bridge, and I expect the Congress to support my effort." He In a letter Monday to House Speaker Mike Johnson, Biden said Congress must bolster funding for the Federal Emergency Management Agency and other programs in the wake of Hurricanes Helene and Milton. The request comes as lawmakers meet during ...
Source: news.yahoo.com
Tuesday, Nov 19th, 2024 -
WASHINGTON (AP) — The head of the Federal Emergency Management Agency told lawmakers Tuesday she has encouraged the agency's inspector general to review whether an employee was acting alone when directing workers helping hurricane victims not to go to homes with yards signs supporting President-elect Donald Trump. FEMA Administrator Deanne Criswell said a critical function of the agency is to go door-to-door ...
Source: apnews.com
Tuesday, Nov 19th, 2024 -
The public has a right to know how taxpayer dollars will be used to deport, ACLU says. Nov. 19 (UPI) -- The American Civil Liberties Union filed a lawsuit seeking details from the federal Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency into how it may execute a large deportation program. On Monday, ACLU of Southern California Foundation vs. ICE was filed in the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California ...
Source: upi.com
Tuesday, Nov 19th, 2024 -
A federal judge in Delaware on Monday tossed a lawsuit filed by former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee against social media giant Meta claiming that the platform unfairly profited from false advertisements for CBD products. Huckabee, President-elect Donald Trump's nominee to be U.S. ambassador to Israel, sued Meta in July over a series of ads for CBD gummies. CBD gummies are edible candies that contain cannabidiol, or ...
Source: lawandcrime.com
Monday, Nov 18th, 2024 -
Young American adults are increasingly getting their news from social media influencers, a majority of whom are men and lean to the right, according to a new study from the Pew Research Center. While one-fifth of US adults reported "regularly" receiving their news from online "news influencers" who post about current events, that number climbed to nearly 40% of young adults aged 18 to 29, the study published Monday ...
Source: edition.cnn.com
Monday, Nov 18th, 2024 -
On MSNBC 's "Morning Joe" on Monday, hosts Mika Brzezinski and Joe Scarborough assured viewers that their recent meeting with U.S. President-elect Donald Trump at Mar-a-Lago was not meant to "normalize" the Republican leader, whose own former chief of staff said recently would govern as a dictator. But Trump's warning to the media after the gathering underscored the danger of treating the president-elect as just ...
Source: commondreams.org