SEOUL, SOUTH KOREA — North Korea launched another suspected ballistic missile Tuesday, its second major weapons test this year, according to the South Korean and Japanese governments. South Korea’s military said the North Korean missile appears to have demonstrated improved capabilities compared to the one Pyongyang launched last week. North Korea last Thursday claimed a successful […]
The challengers say they have “reasonable suspicion that Rep. Cawthorn aided the insurrection, thereby disqualifying him from federal office.” Citing U.S. Rep. Madison Cawthorn’s alleged participation in the January 6 coup attempt, a group of North Carolina voters on Monday submitted a legal challenge to prevent the Republican lawmaker from seeking reelection in 2022. In a complaint filed with the […]
“If you were a fossil fuel lobbyist and had to construct an ideal strategy not only to kill BBB but to gum up the works for as long as possible it would look a lot like what Manchin has been doing.” U.S. Sen. Joe Manchin came under fire Saturday after The Washington Post reported that the West Virginia Democrat […]
Ambulances in Kansas speed toward hospitals then suddenly change direction because hospitals are full. Employee shortages in New York City cause delays in trash and subway services and diminish the ranks of firefighters and emergency workers. Airport officials shut down security checkpoints at the biggest terminal in Phoenix, and schools across the nation struggle to […]
“This irony illustrates a fundamental inequity that is so normalized it is essentially invisible: Powerful people can choose to work safely, while vulnerable workers must continue to risk their lives to make a living.” As the right-wing majority of the U.S. Supreme Court appeared ready Friday to strike down the Biden administration’s Covid-19 safety guidelines for workplaces, the […]
U.S. President Joe Biden said “I don’t think COVID is here to stay” one day after six of his former health advisers urged Americans to learn to live with coronavirus in a “new normal” and his administration to take a different approach to combatting it. Writing Thursday in The Journal of the American Medical Association, the […]
“Trump wants to do here what Orbán has done in Hungary: weaken democratic institutions, curb press freedom, and rewrite election laws to entrench his own party’s power.” U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders rebuked former President Donald Trump Monday after the frequent admirer of dictators endorsed the reelection of Hungarian President Viktor Orbán, under whose administration Hungary’s generation-old democracy has been severely eroded. […]
SEOUL, SOUTH KOREA — North Korea conducted an apparent missile test, South Korea and Japan reported Wednesday, just days after an end-of-year speech in which leader Kim Jong Un focused on domestic economic woes rather than military advancements. North Korea fired at least one projectile toward the sea off its east coast early Wednesday, South Korea’s […]
U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland is planning to speak Wednesday about the Justice Department’s efforts to investigate and prosecute those involved in the U.S. Capitol riot a year ago. Scheduled for 2:30 p.m. EST (1930 Universal Time), Garland’s remarks to the Department of Justice workforce will come the day before the anniversary of the disturbance […]