Democratic presidential nominee Kamala Harris is silent on her earlier advocacy for closing private prisons for citizens and illegal immigrants, a position she championed in her 2020 campaign and 2016 Senate race, Axios reported Tuesday. Harris’s campaign did not respond to Axios’s inquiry about her stance on closing private prisons and declined to make Harris
‘We didn’t like it, the leaks were a dangerous move, they endangered the fighting forces,’ senior Israeli official says (Erik Marmor/Getty Images) Hezbollah was preparing Lebanon’s borderlands with Israel for an “Oct. 7-style invasion” before the Jewish state’s special forces dismantled its underground tunnel system in “targeted ground raids,” the Israeli Defense Forces said Tuesday.
Thousands of port workers from Maine to Texas went on strike early Tuesday morning, which economists warn could spark nationwide shortages and higher prices for American consumers. Members of the International Longshoremen’s Association, which represents 45,000 dockworkers at East Coast and Gulf Coast ports, walked off their jobs early Tuesday after failing to reach a
A similar pattern emerged in my recent report on crime in Washington, D.C. There, too, there are signs that disorder has risen, relative to both the pandemic and pre-pandemic, as the police have attended to it less. Unsheltered homelessness, unsanitary conditions, shoplifting, farebeating—all seem to have become more common in D.C. And those problems have come as
Oregon lease sale cancellation is latest black eye for Biden-Harris admin’s green goals (Christopher Furlong/Getty Images) The Biden-Harris administration cited the “undeniable enthusiasm for a clean energy transition” while announcing an offshore wind lease sale in federal waters off the coast of Oregon last month. But just weeks later, federal officials were forced to indefinitely
Israeli forces have been quietly conducting cross-border raids in southern Lebanon, entering Hezbollah’s sophisticated underground tunnel network to prepare for a likely ground assault on the terror group’s remaining strongholds. The raids, first reported in the Wall Street Journal, are part of a broader effort to kneecap Hezbollah ahead of a ground assault teased by
Michigan Democratic Senate candidate Elissa Slotkin co-sponsored legislation that would create a public health insurance option, a policy that experts have warned could decimate rural hospitals in Michigan. Slotkin, a House member, co-sponsored the Medicare-X Choice Act in 2019. The bill would “create a federal public option” for health insurance, according to a report by