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North Carolina Republicans pick ballot replacement for Rep. Chuck Edwards
Republicans in North Carolina selected state Rep. Jennifer Balkcom (R) as the new GOP nominee in the state’s 11th Congressional District, after Rep. Chuck Edwards (R-N.C.) dropped out of the race last week. Members of the state GOP’s executive committee for the 11th district selected Balkcom just 85 days before Election Day in what projects…
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Sheffield park battle, RFK’s food fight and Pentagon races to rearm
In Sheffield, a proposed Orgreave Park development at Handsworth Hall Farm became part of the wider dispute over the city’s green-belt housing plans. The scheme’s early environmental assessment envisaged up to 900 homes and a 49-acre business park on farmland near Orgreave Lane. It sits alongside a Local Plan that allocates 14 green-belt sites for…
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Trump’s media company, which also owns Truth Social, reports $238m loss
Donald Trump’s media company, Trump Media & Technology Group, which owns the Truth Social platform, reported a $238m loss for the second quarter as it branched into ventures such as crypto and online betting. New chief executive Kevin McGurn announced the company would now refocus on social media after a year spent pursuing those diversifications,…
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Experimental Pentagon weapons test blamed for deadly crash was NOT an anomaly: LT COL DANIEL DAVIS blows the whistle on decades of secretive military programs
A former US Army officer, Lt Col Daniel Davis, has alleged that a fatal civilian plane crash in New Mexico last May, in which four people died, was linked to GPS jamming from a nearby military exercise, and argues the incident reflects a wider, longstanding pattern of risky secretive weapons testing by the US military…
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Trump says he hasn’t spoken to Blanche or Pirro about prosecuting Fauci
President Trump said Monday he has not spoken to Attorney General Todd Blanche nor Jeanine Pirro, the U.S. Attorney for Washington, D.C., regarding prosecuting Dr. Anthony Fauci. “I have not spoken to them about that, no,” Trump told Semafor’s Shelby Talcott in the Oval Office. Last Thursday, Republicans on the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental…
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Michigan Dem Senate nominee comes under fire over resurfaced blog post linking football to ‘toxic masculinity’
Abdul El-Sayed, the Democratic nominee for a US Senate seat in Michigan, is facing criticism after a 2021 blog post resurfaced in which he linked American football to “toxic masculinity”. The piece, highlighted in a report by The Midwesterner, has drawn attention as El-Sayed campaigns for the Senate, with critics seizing on his past remarks…
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American Academy of Pediatrics calls Trump vaccine order ‘dangerous’
The president of the American Academy of Pediatrics blasted President Trump’s Monday executive order calling for fewer childhood vaccines. “As measles cases reach a 35-year high in the U.S. and with cold and flu season quickly approaching, today’s executive order on vaccines is not only disheartening but dangerous,” Dr. Andrew Racine said in a release. …
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Top Senate Dem’s new tax idea gets torched as critics warn nearly every American could pay
Democratic Senator Ron Wyden, the top Democrat on the Senate Finance Committee, has proposed increasing taxes on data centres and cloud computing, prompting sharp criticism from opponents who warn the added costs could ultimately be passed on to nearly all American consumers. The plan, outlined in a white paper released last week, would target tax…
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Zuckerberg pushes ‘superintelligent’ AI for all as Meta drops open-source model
Mark Zuckerberg published a lengthy essay setting out his vision for artificial intelligence, coinciding with Meta’s release of a new open-source AI model, Muse Glimmer, aimed at rivalling products from Anthropic and OpenAI. The essay, titled “The Future is for Everyone”, positions Meta against those rivals by arguing for free, open-weight AI models and minimal…
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White House thrusts vaccines back into headlines
Click in for more news from The Hill {beacon} Healthcare Healthcare The Big Story White House thrusts vaccines back into headlines The Trump administration appeared to be backing away from making moves on changing vaccine policy in recent months, perhaps wary of political backlash ahead of the midterm elections. But it all came roaring…