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Top News Stories for Saturday, December 2nd 2023
Saturday, Dec 2nd, 2023 -
House Republican leadership is facing some internal backlash over their last-minute opposition to expelling former Rep. George Santos (R-N.Y.) from Congress. Why it matters: The historic vote to expel Santos was prompted by a report from the bipartisan House Ethics Committee which alleged a "complex web" of wrongdoing by the embattled Long Islander. Beyond the Ethics Committee, Santos has also been twice criminally ...
Source: axios.com
Saturday, Dec 2nd, 2023 -
Current time in: Gaza City Dec. 2, 3:35 p.m. Israel-Hamas War Israel Launches Strikes and Orders Evacuations in Southern Gaza Israeli warplanes pounded targets in southern Gaza the day after a truce with Hamas collapsed. Gazan health authorities said that Israeli attacks had killed more than 15,000 people since Oct. 7. The Israeli military heavily bombarded southern Gaza on Saturday and ordered residents of several ...
Source: nytimes.com
Saturday, Dec 2nd, 2023 -
WASHINGTON (AP) — Donald Trump is not immune from prosecution in his election interference case in Washington, a federal judge ruled Friday, knocking down the Republican's bid to derail the case charging him with plotting to overturn the 2020 presidential election. U.S. District Judge Tanya Chutkan's decision amounts to a sharp rejection to challenges the Trump defense team had raised to the four-count ...
Source: apnews.com
Saturday, Dec 2nd, 2023 -
News / Pixabay Federal judge temporarily blocks Montana TikTok ban A federal judge ruled on Thursday to temporarily block Montana's ban on TikTok from coming into effect in the state. In issuing the preliminary injunction , US District Judge Donald Molloy found that Senate Bill 419 violates the US Constitution "in more ways than one" after determining that the ban "oversteps state power and infringes on the ...
Source: jurist.org
Saturday, Dec 2nd, 2023 -
Sandra Day O'Connor, the first woman U.S. Supreme Court justice, described by The New York Times as "a rancher's daughter who wielded great power over American law from her seat at the center of the court's ideological spectrum," died on Friday morning in Phoenix, Arizona. The Supreme Court said she died of complications related to advanced dementia and a respiratory illness. She was 93. Justice O'Connor ...
Source: theweek.com
Saturday, Dec 2nd, 2023 -
Keeping Up With the Trump Trials: 'Tis the Season to Fight Gag Orders Fa la la la la, la la la la. Keeping up with Donald Trump's court schedule is a dizzying task, since he faces two federal trials, a criminal trial in Georgia, and two separate civil and criminal trials in New York. (Oh, and he's running for president .) To make things easier, we'll be recapping the biggest Trump trial news at the end of each ...
Source: slate.com
Saturday, Dec 2nd, 2023 -
Venezuelans will vote Sunday in a referendum to decide whether the country should create its own state within a large swath of its oil-rich neighbor Guyana – a move that has been denounced by Guyana as a step towards annexation and raised concerns of a possible military conflict between the two South American nations. The area in question, the densely forested Essequibo region, amounts to about two-thirds of ...
Source: cnn.com
Saturday, Dec 2nd, 2023 -
A book has named Charles and Catherine as royals alleged to have discussed skin colour of Harry and Meghan's unborn son The royal race row that erupted more than two years ago, when the Duke and Duchess of Sussex told Oprah Winfrey that a member of the royal family had remarked on Prince Archie's skin colour before he was born, has simmered ever since. Now it has exploded once more as the Dutch version of a new ...
Source: theguardian.com
Saturday, Dec 2nd, 2023 -
WASHINGTON — The Biden administration on Saturday issued a final rule aimed at reducing methane emissions, targeting the U.S. oil and natural gas industry for its role in global warming as President Biden seeks to advance his climate legacy. The Environmental Protection Agency said the new rule will sharply reduce methane and other harmful air pollutants generated by the oil and gas industry, promote use of ...
Source: bostonglobe.com
Saturday, Dec 2nd, 2023 -
Buffalo Bills linebacker Von Miller turned himself in Thursday after an arrest warrant was issued for him, Dallas police said. According to the arrest warrant affidavit from the Dallas Police Department, Miller has been accused of assaulting his pregnant girlfriend. Miller, 34, turned himself in to the Glenn Heights Police Department Thursday afternoon, hours after the warrant was issued, Dallas police told CNN. ...
Source: aol.com
Saturday, Dec 2nd, 2023 -
The launch of a 'loss and damage' fund on Thursday at the start of the United Nations COP28 summit marks a landmark moment but is only the first in a series of necessary steps in the fight for climate justice, say experts and activists. For years, climate-vulnerable countries have asked wealthier nations – who have largely amassed their riches through unbridled CO2 emissions – to take their fair share ...
Source: aljazeera.com
Saturday, Dec 2nd, 2023 -
The Supreme Court Case That Could Upend a Century of Tax Law "The winners are the rich." The Supreme Court will hear oral arguments on Tuesday in Moore v U.S. , a case that nominally involves the right of the US government to tax a couple, Charles and Kathleen Moore, on foreign corporate profits they have yet to receive. Sounds arcane, but the case, bankrolled by the Competitive Enterprise Institute , could ...
Source: motherjones.com
Saturday, Dec 2nd, 2023 -
DUBAI: Governments lined up a slew of energy announcements on Saturday at the UN climate summit in Dubai, where countries are under pressure to come up with plans to halt the non-stop rise in planet-warming emissions. A pledge to triple the world's renewable energy capacity by 2030 is poised to win support from more than 110 countries on Saturday, with some pushing for the final agreement from the COP28 summit to ...
Source: timesofindia.indiatimes.com
Saturday, Dec 2nd, 2023 -
– When it came to the Middle East, Henry Kissinger wasn't pushing for peace — only for what was possible. By the time , the agreements he negotiated as United States secretary of state between Israel, Egypt and Syria stabilized borders for nearly half a century after the 1973 Arab-Israeli war. His work and the pacts it produced sidelined the Soviet Union and set the U.S. as the region's chief ...
Source: news4jax.com
Friday, Dec 1st, 2023 -
California Governor Gavin Newsom and his Florida counterpart Ron DeSantis engaged in a heated debate on Thursday, touching on topics such as the 2024 election, their respective COVID-19 responses, and other policies implemented in the red and blue states. The unusual debate between a Republican 2024 hopeful and a Democratic governor who is touted as a potential future presidential candidate was moderated by Fox ...
Source: newsweek.com
Friday, Dec 1st, 2023 -
International climate talks turned to a power game on Friday as dozens of world leaders took turns bemoaning the pain of an overheating planet, but two of the world's most powerful men — President Joe Biden of the U.S. and China's President Xi Jinping — were glaringly absent. Crown Prince Mohammed Bin Salman of Saudi Arabia, a top oil producer, and Prime Minister Narendra Modi of India, whose biggest ...
Source: france24.com
Friday, Dec 1st, 2023 -
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) is calling for the resignation of Florida GOP Chairman Christian Ziegler, who is ensnared in a police inquiry involving alleged sexual battery. "I don't see how he can continue with that investigation ongoing given the gravity of those situations, and so I think that he should, I think he should step aside," DeSantis, a Republican presidential candidate , told reporters Thursday night. ...
Source: washingtonpost.com
Friday, Dec 1st, 2023 -
WASHINGTON, Dec 1 (Reuters) - A lawyer for Donald Trump said on Friday that the former U.S. president should not face trial on charges that he sought to overturn the 2020 election results in the state of Georgia if he wins the election next year. The remarks by the lawyer, Steven Sadow, came as the judge overseeing the case wrestled with how to set a trial date given Trump's other legal entanglements and the ...
Source: reuters.com
Friday, Dec 1st, 2023 -
The New York Times says a report had been translated, suggesting it was intercepted from Arabic, and it said Hamas would use rockets and drones, as well as take hostages back into Gaza. Israel knew about plans for a Hamas attack on its soil more than a year before the 7 October assault that killed more than a thousand people, according to the New York Times. The paper said officials in Israel had a 40-page battle ...
Source: news.sky.com
Friday, Dec 1st, 2023 -
After more than six decades on the world's stage, during which he both brilliantly persuaded and deftly deceived the powerful and created state-to-state relationships that survive him, Henry Kissinger now belongs to the history he helped make. The only American official ever to have held all of the levers of foreign-policy making—for two years he served simultaneously as national security adviser and ...
Source: foreignaffairs.com
Friday, Dec 1st, 2023 -
An Illinois appeals court on Friday ruled that the sentence and conviction against Jussie Smollett should stand, turning another page in the years-old, infamous case. Seeking to overturn a sentence and conviction for falsely reporting a hate crime to Chicago police in January of 2019, attorneys for the former "Empire" actor alleged a lengthy laundry list of violations in the case handled by special prosecutor Dan ...
Source: chicagotribune.com
Friday, Dec 1st, 2023 -
MSNBC should rethink its decision to cancel the Sunday night show hosted by "the best interviewer in American news right now." At a time when there is so much criticism of major media outlets for their lack of seriousness, depth, and insight, MSNBC host Mehdi Hasan's September 6 segment with Republican presidential contender Vivek Ramaswamy offered a reminder of just how powerful a television interview can be ...
Source: thenation.com
Klete Keller, Olympic gold medalist swimmer, gets 6 months in home detention for Jan. 6 Capitol riot
Friday, Dec 1st, 2023 -
– Olympic gold medalist swimmer , who threw his USA team jacket in a trash can after he stormed , was sentenced on Friday to six months of home detention for joining the mob's Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the seat of American democracy. At 6-foot-6, Keller towered over police officers guarding the Capitol and other supporters who breached the building, and he was quickly identified by authorities. He pleaded ...
Source: news4jax.com
Friday, Dec 1st, 2023 -
A federal appeals court on Friday ordered Texas to remove a floating barrier from the Rio Grande placed there under the direction of Republican Gov. Greg Abbott to deter illegal migrant crossings. In a 2-1 decision, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit upheld a lower court's finding that the buoys were illegal. "The district court's factual findings were not clearly erroneous," the opinion states. ...
Source: nbcnews.com
Friday, Dec 1st, 2023 -
Back The United Auto Workers union has announced its support of a new cease-fire between Israel and the terrorist group Hamas as the temporary cessation of hostilities ended, comparing its action to previous stances against South African apartheid and Nazi Germany. "I'm proud today to announce that the UAW international has joined the call for a cease-fire in Israel and Palestine," UAW Director Brandon Mancilla ...
Source: washingtontimes.com
Friday, Dec 1st, 2023 -
Dec 1 (Reuters) - A Florida appeals court on Friday upheld the state's congressional map backed by Governor Ron DeSantis that a lower court had ruled violated the state constitution by diminishing some Black residents' voting power. A state judge in September ruled that the map redrawn in 2020 illegally shredded the 5th Congressional District, which had been a strongly Black district in north Florida. The new map ...
Source: reuters.com
Friday, Dec 1st, 2023 -
The requirement would be a "massive unfunded mandate," said a group representing local water utilities. But it does give cities, particularly those with lots of lead pipes, some leeway. You're reading Route Fifty's State and Local Roundup. To get the week's news to use from around the country, you can subscribe here to get this update in your inbox every Saturday. The Environmental ...
Source: route-fifty.com
Friday, Dec 1st, 2023 -
We look at a new report that reveals how Israel is using artificial intelligence to draw up targets in its military assault of Gaza. The report's author, journalist Yuval Abraham, has found that the IDF's increasing use of AI is partly a response to previous operations in Gaza when Israel quickly ran out of military targets, causing it to loosen its constraints on attacks that could kill civilians. In other words, ...
Source: democracynow.org
Thursday, Nov 30th, 2023 -
WASHINGTON (AP) — Democrats on the Senate Judiciary Committee voted Thursday to authorize subpoenas for two prominent conservatives who arranged luxury travel and other benefits for Supreme Court justices, but Republicans challenged the legitimacy of the move and pledged to withhold support for enforcing the legal order. The committee chairman, Sen. Dick Durbin, D-Ill., pushed through the vote in the ...
Source: bostonglobe.com