Facebook Tweet Email Link Iowa Republican Sen. Joni Ernst has decided not to seek reelection to a third term, two people familiar with the decision say, and is poised to make an announcement next week. Ernst has been wrestling with the decision for months, but began telling friends in recent days. Her retirement creates an open Senate seat in Iowa. …
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Look, it’s not as if Metallica in the year of the Lord 2025 is anything remotely like these lovable 20-year-old miscreants that terrorized the Bay Area and beyond. They’re all in their sixties now, kinder, gentler, and presumably insanely loaded rock gods who you could see being the quirky, out-of-place neighbor at some comically rich enclave like the Hamptons. Wikipedia …
Read More »Lawyers for Abrego Garcia Seek Gag Order Against Trump Officials The New York Times Kilmar Abrego Garcia asks for gag order against Bondi, Noem Politico Abrego Garcia’s lawyers ask judge to order Trump administration to stop making inflammatory comments about him ABC News Kilmar Abrego Garcia can’t be deported until at least early October, judge rules CNN Kilmar Abrego Garcia to seek asylum in …
Read More »MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — The shooter who killed two Catholic school students and wounded more than a dozen youngsters sitting in the pews of a Minneapolis church once attended the same school and was “obsessed” with the idea of killing children, authorities said Thursday. The shooter, identified as 23-year-old Robin Westman, fired 116 rifle casings through stained-glass windows while the children …
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Patty Murray, the Washington senator, has called for the Trump administration to provide “immediate answers” about reports that two firefighters were detained by border agents as they were responding to a wildfire in the state. Federal immigration authorities on Wednesday staged an operation on the scene of the Bear Gulch fire, a nearly 9,000-acre (3,600-hectare) blaze in the Olympic national …
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Minneapolis mourns kids killed at Annunciation Catholic School as officials seek motive MPR News Minneapolis shooting live updates: 2 children killed, 17 injured at Catholic school; FBI investigating attack as hate crime yahoo.com Girl shot in head at Minneapolis school asked bystander, ‘Please just hold my hand’ ABC News Robin Westman posted a manifesto on YouTube prior to Annunciation Church shooting 5 EYEWITNESS NEWS …
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Washington — Kilmar Abrego Garcia, the Salvadoran man who was taken into immigration custody after he was released pending a criminal trial, has asked an immigration judge to reopen his immigration proceedings and is seeking asylum in the United States, his lawyer said during a court hearing Wednesday. Simon Sandoval-Moshenberg, Abrego Garcia’s attorney, told a federal judge overseeing a legal …
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Ballots are being cast Wednesday over a pivotal decision at a Kentucky manufacturing complex that is producing batteries for electric vehicles. Workers will decide whether to join the United Auto Workers and extend a streak of union victories in the South, where organized labor struggled to find solid footing. A two-day union vote closes Wednesday, about a week after production …
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NEW YORK — The wife of former Sen. Bob Menendez should serve at least seven years in prison for playing a pivotal role in a bribery scheme that put the New Jersey Democrat behind bars for 11 years, prosecutors told a judge Tuesday. Nadine Menendez, age 58, was convicted in April, a year after her husband and two New Jersey …
Read More »WASHINGTON (AP) — JB Pritzker took a water taxi along the Chicago Riverwalk, past one of Donald Trump’s famous downtown towers. The gleaming and heavily trafficked tourist district was a deliberate backdrop on the day the Illinois governor directed a defiant message toward the White House: “Mr. President, do not come to Chicago. You are neither wanted here nor needed …
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