WASHINGTON, Oct 24 (Reuters) – The federal government is set to issue a warning this week about threats to the United States’ elections operations ahead of Nov. 8 congressional elections, Politico reported on Monday. The internal intelligence bulletin will lay out specifics on cyber threats from China and Russia, as[Read More…]
WASHINGTON, Sept 27 (Reuters) – Conservative group Pacific Legal Foundation filed a federal lawsuit Tuesday against the U.S. Department of Education with the intent of stopping President Joe Biden’s student loan cancellation plan. The lawsuit, which was filed in the U.S. District Court for the South District of Indiana, comes[Read More…]
Sept 21 (Reuters) – Former U.S. President Donald Trump, three of his adult children and his family company were sued on Wednesday for what New York state’s attorney general called a decade of fraudulent misstatements of the values of real estate properties to secure favorable loans and tax benefits. Here[Read More…]
NEW YORK, Sept 21 (Reuters) – President Vladimir Putin’s thinly veiled threat to use nuclear weapons after Russian setbacks in Ukraine was “dangerous and reckless rhetoric,” NATO’s secretary general said on Wednesday, adding that the only way to end the war was to prove Moscow will not win on the[Read More…]
Sept 16 (Reuters) – A U.S. appeals court on Friday upheld a Texas law that bars large social media companies from banning or censoring users based on “viewpoint,” a setback for technology industry groups that have argued that the Republican-backed measure would turn platforms into bastions of dangerous content. The[Read More…]
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau on Friday nominated an Indigenous person to join Canada’s Supreme Court, a first for the country’s highest court. Michelle O’Bonsawin, a judge on Ontario’s Superior Court since 2017 and an Abenaki member of the Odanak First Nation, will join the court in September when a long-serving[Read More…]
Under the watch of counterterrorism officers and police in tactical gear, hundreds of people gathered in front of the New York Public Library on Friday to show support for Salman Rushdie, the author stabbed multiple times at a literary event a week ago. Irish novelist Colum McCann, British writer Hari[Read More…]
Aug 11 (Reuters) – Satellite pictures released on Thursday showed devastation at a Russian air base in Crimea, hit in an attack that suggested Kyiv may have obtained new long-range strike capability with the potential to change the course of the war. FIGHTING * Ukraine and Russian-backed separatists blamed each[Read More…]
By Rose Horowitch WASHINGTON, July 21 (Reuters) – The U.S. House of Representatives on Thursday passed a bill to protect access to contraception, responding to concerns that it could be threatened by a conservative Supreme Court that revoked the ruling that guaranteed a nationwide right to abortion. The bill passed[Read More…]
July 18 (Reuters) – Employees at a Miami investment firm had learned of a pending merger deal between former President Donald Trump’s social media company and a blank-check entity long before it was announced, the New York Times reported on Monday, citing three people familiar with the discussions. Officials of[Read More…]
