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Trump points to India’s voter ID rules in call to pass SAVE America Act
President Trump pointed to India’s election laws in an effort to bolster support for voter registration reform outlined in the Safeguarding America’s Voter Eligibility (SAVE) America Act, which is backed by the White House. “Earlier this month, India’s Chief Election Commissioner, Gyanesh Kumar, asked our Administration — ‘How can you have Elections in the U.S….
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Ralph Norman suggests special GOP primary runoff rival Darline Graham is the establishment’s chosen candidate
Republican Congressman Ralph Norman has released a campaign advert suggesting that his opponent, Senator Darline Graham, is the preferred candidate of the political establishment, as the two face off in a runoff for South Carolina’s special Republican US Senate primary. The attack forms part of Norman’s strategy to cast himself as the more authentic, grassroots…
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Mace on new tattoos: ‘Everybody just needs to relax’
Rep. Nancy Mace (R-S.C.) addressed the outpour of commentary regarding her two tattoo sleeves during a Monday episode of her recently launched podcast. The conservative representative showed off the tattoos on her podcast, “Get MACED,” where she criticized the online reaction to her appearance — saying, “the internet is losing its f‑‑‑king mind over my…
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Trump’s Syria envoy says Israeli air strikes on base ‘unnecessary escalation’
Tom Barrack, President Trump’s U.S. ambassador to Turkey and special envoy for Syria and Iraq, on Tuesday condemned Israeli air strikes on a Syrian air base as an “unnecessary escalation.” Israel carried out eight airstrikes on the Abu al-Duhur base’s runway and storage facilities, Syria’s state-run Ekhbariya news outlet reported, according to Reuters. A military…
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Ebola outbreak becomes deadliest in Congo history
The Ebola outbreak in Congo is now the deadliest in the country’s history, according to new government data released on Monday. There have been a total of 4,945 confirmed cases and 2,325 deaths associated with this outbreak in Congo since May. This tops the previous record set during the 2018 outbreak in the Central African…
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Trump attacks ‘fake Republican’ Drummond in fiery Oklahoma gubernatorial runoff
President Trump on Tuesday attacked Oklahoma Attorney General Gentner Drummond as a “fake Republican” ahead of next week’s GOP runoff for governor. He renewed his support for Republican Mike Mazzei, a former state senator and state budget secretary, who advanced alongside Drummond from the June primary to a late-August runoff. “Meanwhile, his Runoff Election Opponent,…
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Almost 4 in 10 say extreme weather damaged their communities in past year: Survey
Nearly 4 in 10 Americans say their communities were damaged by extreme weather events over the past year, according to a new survey released Tuesday. The Walton Family Foundation-Gallup poll found that 38 percent of Americans said their town or city experienced extreme weather destruction in the past year. The Trump administration has worked to…
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Trump moves to strip protections from 44M acres of national forest
The Trump administration on Tuesday moved to strip protections from 44 million acres of national forest. The U.S. Forest Service has proposed to rescind the 2001 “Roadless Rule,” which prohibits road construction and logging in pristine parts of national forests that don’t currently have roads. By blocking roads, the rule targeted by the administration also…
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Elevation Pictures co-founder Laurie May leaves distributor after 13 years
Laurie May has stepped down as co-president of Elevation Pictures, the independent Canadian distribution company she helped found in 2013 alongside Black Bear’s Teddy Schwarzman during the Toronto International Film Festival. Over her 13 years with the firm, May helped build Elevation into Canada’s leading independent distributor, with the company handling domestic releases of acclaimed…