Top Democrats call for resignation of Homeland Security internal watchdog
Two top Democrats in the U.S. Congress called for the internal watchdog of the Department of Homeland Security to resign on Thursday, after the release of a nonpartisan report alleging repeated misconduct and obstruction.
US says it disrupted Russian efforts to hack government agencies
(Reuters) — The United States has seized 41 internet domains used by Russian intelligence agents and their proxies to hack into government agencies including the Pentagon and State Department, the Justice Department said on Thursday.
US backs Israel’s operations in Lebanon despite risk of expanding conflict
The Biden administration believes it is appropriate for Israel to continue with its ground and air attacks on Hezbollah for now, U.S. State Department spokesperson Matthew Miller said on Thursday, even as he acknowledged the risk of the operation in Lebanon expanding beyond Israel’s current aims.
Liz Cheney to campaign with Harris at the birthplace of the GOP
WASHINGTON — Vice President Kamala Harris will campaign alongside Liz Cheney, the most prominent Republican to cross party lines and endorse her, on Thursday in Wisconsin at a symbolic location: the birthplace of the Republican Party.
Biden student debt relief plan blocked again by different judge
A U.S. judge on Thursday temporarily blocked Democratic President Joe Biden’s administration from implementing a plan to forgive student loan debt held by millions of Americans.
Six migrants die after Mexican soldiers fire on pick-up truck
(Reuters) — Six migrants died after Mexican soldiers fired on a group of 33 migrants traveling in a pick-up truck that had tried to evade a military patrol, the defense ministry said on Wednesday, underlining tensions on Mexico’s southern border as it faces U.S. pressure to contain migration.
Former county clerk gets 9 years in prison for tampering with voting machines
Tina Peters, the former clerk of Mesa County, Colorado, was sentenced Thursday to nine years in prison after being found guilty in August of tampering with voting machines under her control in a failed attempt to prove that they had been used to rig the 2020 election against former President Donald Trump.
North Korea leader Kim threatens nuclear response if sovereignty breached
(Reuters) — North Korean leader Kim Jong Un said the country would not hesitate to use all available offensive forces including nuclear weapons if the enemy attempted to use force to encroach on its sovereignty, state news agency KCNA reported on Friday.
Trump promised to release his medical records. He still won’t do it.
As a presidential candidate in 2015, Donald Trump declined to release his medical records, instead offering a four-paragraph letter from his personal doctor proclaiming that he would be “the healthiest person ever elected to the presidency.”
Solar eclipse shines a ‘ring of fire’ over Easter Island and Patagonia
(Reuters) — The moon blotted out most of the sun across the Pacific Ocean on Wednesday afternoon, giving just a few specks of land an impressive annular “ring of fire” eclipse.
US dockworker strike enters second day with talks at a standstill
A strike by 45,000 dockworkers halting shipments at U.S. East Coast and Gulf Coast ports entered its second day on Wednesday with no negotiations currently scheduled between the two sides, sources told Reuters.
Israel declares U.N. chief António Guterres persona non grata
Israel has barred U.N. Secretary-General António Guterres from entering the country, Foreign Minister Israel Katz said Wednesday, criticizing him for failing to forcefully condemn Iran’s latest missile attack.
Nation and world news — at a glance — for October 3
Mayorkas warns of funding shortfall for rest of hurricane season
Biden, Harris view Helene devastation, 1,000 troops deployed
RALEIGH, North Carolina — President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris visited South Carolina, North Carolina and Georgia on Wednesday to see first hand the devastation wrought in the U.S. Southeast by Hurricane Helene, which has killed at least 160 people.
Israel strikes heart of Beirut, killing six
Israel bombed central Beirut in the early hours of Thursday, killing at least six people, after its forces suffered their deadliest day on the Lebanese front in a year of clashes against Iran-backed armed group Hezbollah.
Trump’s mass deportation of immigrants would cost hundreds of billions
Mass deportation of undocumented immigrants on the scale advocated by former President Donald Trump and Ohio Sen. JD Vance would cost hundreds of billions of dollars to enact, and would only be possible with the creation of a massive detention camp system.
Breast cancer continues to rise among younger women, study finds
Rates of breast cancer — the second leading cause of cancer deaths in U.S. women — climbed 1% a year from 2012 to 2021, and even more sharply among women younger than 50 and among Asian American/Pacific Islander women of all ages, according to an American Cancer Society report published Tuesday.
Judge unseals new evidence in federal election case against Trump
In a sprawling legal brief partly unsealed Wednesday, special counsel Jack Smith laid out his case for why former President Donald Trump is not immune from prosecution on federal charges of plotting to overturn the 2020 election.
Gun, transgender rights, porn cases loom as US Supreme Court returns
The U.S. Supreme Court launches its new nine-month term on Monday with several major cases already on its schedule — involving guns, transgender rights, online pornography and more — and with the possibility of confronting legal disputes that may arise from the Nov. 5 presidential election.
Lawmakers hail ‘prudent’ decision to up security on Jan. 6
WASHINGTON — Lawmakers expressed relief over a special designation for this coming Jan. 6, saying it will boost security on what could be a tense day at the Capitol. But the move is just the beginning, some said.
