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Saturday, Oct 11th, 2025 -
Judges have stalled President Donald Trump's plans to deploy the National Guard in Chicago and in Portland, Oregon, but troops are now patrolling in Memphis , Tennessee, with the blessing of the state's governor. The troops, dressed in Guard fatigues and protective vests, with guns in their holsters, patrolled at a Bass Pro Shops store and a nearby tourist welcome center beside the Mississippi River on Friday. It ...
Source: apnews.com
Saturday, Oct 11th, 2025 -
McEWEN, Tenn. (AP) — Officials were investigating a blast that leveled an explosives plant in rural Tennessee, as families of the 18 people missing and feared dead waited anxiously Saturday for answers. The explosion Friday morning at Accurate Energetic Systems , which supplies and researches explosives for the military, scattered debris over at least a half-mile (800-meter) area and was felt by residents ...
Source: apnews.com
Saturday, Oct 11th, 2025 -
It started with an unsubstantiated warning that taking Tylenol during pregnancy could raise a child's risk of autism. But the message from President Donald Trump and Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. seems to have quickly expanded to suggest that babies and young children should avoid the common painkiller. "Don't give it to the baby when the baby's born," Trump said of Tylenol at a Cabinet meeting on ...
Source: aol.com
Saturday, Oct 11th, 2025 -
Two Manatee County school facilities are targets in a large charter school company's rush to take over dozens of underused schools across the state. Miami-based Mater Academy Inc. sent the notices to the School District of Manatee County on Wednesday, hoping to leverage the state's "Schools of Hope" law to use the schools as "co-location" sites. The legislation allows charter school operators to move into public ...
Source: bradenton.com
Friday, Oct 10th, 2025 -
All it took was a personal message to "Pam." from President Donald Trump on Truth Social set off an extraordinary rush that has turned a once-hypothetical fear into reality: a president personally directing criminal charges against people he sees as his enemies. ) were not subtle. The president named three public figures he has long detested and urged the Justice Department to prosecute them immediately. . Both ...
Source: news.yahoo.com
Friday, Oct 10th, 2025 -
The White House has confirmed that substantial layoffs within the federal workforce have officially begun as the ongoing government shutdown continues to strain agencies and public services. The Office of Management and Budget (OMB) announced that multiple departments have initiated "reductions in force" (RIFs), marking one of the largest public-sector job cuts in recent U.S. history. Russell Vought, Director of ...
Source: jdjournal.com
Friday, Oct 10th, 2025 -
Stay up to date with notifications from The Independent Notifications can be managed in browser preferences. Swipe for next article Trump returns for another exam after growing speculation about his health President Donald Trump is returning to Walter Reed Medical Center for what the White House initially described as a "routine yearly checkup," just six months after undergoing his annual physical exam. "I ...
Source: independent.co.uk
Friday, Oct 10th, 2025 -
WASHINGTON ― Some Republicans say they may have to take drastic measures and go "nuclear" by changing the U.S. Senate's filibuster rules to pass a funding bill if the government shutdown drags on for a while and federal workers and military troops miss successive paychecks. For two decades, HuffPost has been fearless, unflinching, and relentless in pursuit of the truth. Support our mission to keep us around ...
Source: news.yahoo.com
Friday, Oct 10th, 2025 -
reading time 2 minutes The company belonging to a former Republican election official has reportedly bought Dominion Voting Systems. The election vendor, which endured a slew of baseless MAGA conspiracy theories in the aftermath of the 2020 presidential election, has been acquired by a company called Liberty Vote, according to a press release from the company. Liberty Vote is a new company that is owned by Scott ...
Source: gizmodo.com
Friday, Oct 10th, 2025 -
In the rap battle between the pair, which saw them hurl personal insults at each other, the judge called Not Like Us "the metaphorical killing blow". Drake's defamation lawsuit over Kendrick Lamar's diss track Not Like Us has been dismissed by a federal judge. Judge Jeannette A Vargas said Lamar's lyrics accusing Drake of being a paedophile were not defamatory because they were "nonactionable opinion". The Canadian ...
Source: news.sky.com
Friday, Oct 10th, 2025 -
Democrat Abigail Spanberger faced off against Virginia's lieutenant governor, Winsome Earle-Sears, in the only public debate in that state's governor's race on Thursday, days after the Democratic nominee for attorney general was embroiled in a texting and misconduct controversy relating to his opponents. Spanberger, a former congresswoman who left Washington to run for the governorship, which is currently held by a ...
Source: news.yahoo.com
Friday, Oct 10th, 2025 -
Peru's Congress has voted to remove President Dina Boluarte, among the world's most unpopular leaders, in a late-night session called hours after political parties from across the spectrum demanded her impeachment, as the nation fights an intensive crime wave. Politicians voted late on Thursday to debate Boluarte's removal from office on grounds of "moral incapacity" and summoned her to defend herself before ...
Source: aljazeera.com
Friday, Oct 10th, 2025 -
House Speaker Mike Johnson has stuck to the Republican Party's script regarding the US government shutdown that began more than a week ago when the GOP refused to include an extension of healthcare subsidies in a spending bill—but voters from both sides of the aisle made clear to him Thursday on "Washington Journal," the C-SPAN call-in show, that they aren't buying the claim that Democrats are holding crucial ...
Source: commondreams.org