Washington DC: On May 13 the Chinese Embassy posted on X that four issues—the Taiwan question, democracy and human rights, paths and political systems, and China’s development rights—constitute 'four red lines' that must not be challenged during US President Donald Trump’s visit to China scheduled for May 13–15; the White...
BATON ROUGE — Senate and Governmental Affairs Committee members met beginning Tuesday evening and into the early hours of Wednesday as they considered competing congressional redistricting proposals; just before 12:30 a.m. Wednesday May 13, the committee voted 4-3 to reject Senate Bill 407, the map authored by Sen. Ed Price...
Omaha — Tuesday night, Nebraska Democratic nominee Cindy Burbank won the party primary, while Republican Sen. Pete Ricketts easily secured the GOP nomination. Local outlets and the Associated Press called races shortly after polls closed, and vote tallies published that evening showed Burbank leading decisively in the Democratic contest. This week...
Chamblee, Georgia. Republican Brad Raffensperger, Georgia's secretary of state and a candidate for governor, spoke Tuesday in Chamblee as part of a campaign push to reintroduce himself after his 2020 refusal to overturn the presidential election results; he told reporters he is stressing his conservative, Christian businessman credentials and has...
Washington, United States. U.S. government data this week showed wholesale prices jumped sharply in April, with the Producer Price Index rising 6.0 percent year‑on‑year and 1.4 percent month‑on‑month; President Donald Trump told reporters on Tuesday he viewed the surge as short-term and tied the rise to disruptions from the Iran...
Missoula, Mont. residents questioned the proposed Midtown Commons mixed-use development at City Council public comment this week, expressing concern whether the project’s hundreds of housing units will be attainable for lower-income people. Missoula Redevelopment Agency project manager Annette Marchessault said the plan was not formally income-restricted and instead focuses on...
Washington — U.S. intelligence assessments this week show Iran has regained operational access to 30 of 33 missile sites along the Strait of Hormuz and retained roughly 70 percent of its mobile launchers and pre-war missile stockpile, according to classified reports cited by The New York Times. The assessments, prepared...
Washington — The nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office on May 12 estimated that President Donald Trump’s proposed 'Golden Dome' missile defense program could cost roughly $1.2 trillion over 20 years. The CBO report, using the January 2025 executive order as a blueprint, places acquisition costs at just over $1 trillion and...
West Palm Beach, Fla. House Oversight Committee Democrats held a field hearing Tuesday where survivors of Jeffrey Epstein testified about abuse, unredacted names in case files, and failures in the original prosecution. Representatives Lois Frankel, Maxwell Frost, Jasmine Crockett and Melanie Stansbury questioned witnesses and framed the event as a...
Washington: Dr. Marty Makary resigned Tuesday as commissioner of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, just over a year after taking the post. The resignation came after backlash from health industry executives, anti-abortion activists and other allies of President Donald Trump. Officials have not given an official reason for his...
