A single shot ‘caused the shooter to recoil and briefly fall out of sight,’ a local official says. A Butler County official who was a witness to the first assassination attempt on former President Donald Trump in Pennsylvania provided more details on Thursday about a local police officer’s actions that he believed stopped the would-be
TEL AVIV—Israel on Thursday rejected a proposal, led by the Biden-Harris administration and France, for a ceasefire with the Iran-backed terror group Hezbollah. Upon landing in New York City to address the U.N. General Assembly, Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu said the military would keep hitting Hezbollah with “full force, and we will not stop
The filing is expected to comprehensively outline the special counsel’s argument on how the Supreme Court ruling applies to Trump’s criminal case. Special Counsel Jack Smith filed a legal brief under seal on Thursday in his Jan. 6 case against former President Donald Trump. The U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia had given
Supporters say the bill will ensure transparency and accountability while critics say it is an effort to make the high court more liberal. Sen. Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) unveiled comprehensive reform legislation on Sept. 26 to add six justices to the U.S. Supreme Court, raising the total from the current nine members to 15. The measure
Most records were removed as duplicate entries or for inactivity in recent federal elections. More than 747,000 registrants have been stripped from North Carolina’s voter rolls since the start of 2023 due to ineligibility, the state’s elections board announced on Sept. 26. North Carolina’s county boards of elections ended the 20-month purge in August, removing
‘Setting a course for improved fiscal health will be challenging,’ said Carl Tannenbaum, chief economist at North Trust. America’s fiscal health, from the national debt to the budget deficit, is not a priority for the presidential candidates in this year’s election, say economists. The national debt currently stands at $35.324 trillion, up by nearly $8
China-based EV company Gotion High-Tech offered to provide an all-expenses-paid trip to China to the lead government official assisting the company with its plans to build an EV battery component factory in northern Michigan amid a contentious approval process for the project last year, according to federal court documents reviewed by the Washington Free Beacon.