Giorno: 5 Settembre 2023

’24 Senate Showdown: Dems Defend 23 Seats, GOP 10

The Senate returns to session after Labor Day with its first vote since July 27, a span of 40 days .But it is not the work before it that had the attention of Tuesday’s Punchbowl News’ most recent newsletter: It was the 2024 Senate landscape.[#item_full_content]

Blaine Holt to Newsmax: Chinese Incursion Report ‘Troubling’

A report ​​that Chinese nationals, often posing as tourists, gained access to U.S. military bases and other sites as many as 100 times in recent years is a “troubling” development, retired U.S. Air Force Brig. Gen. Blaine Holt said on Newsmax on Tuesday. 

Senate Democrat Asks Chief Justice to Investigate Alito

A Democrat senator has asked Chief Justice John Roberts to investigate Justice Samuel Alito over recent comments about Supreme Court ethics, The Washington Post reported. Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse, D-R.I., wrote Roberts on Monday to take the unusual step of filing an ethics…[#item_full_content]

Poll: Haley, DeSantis Tied for 2nd in New Hampshire

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis and former U.N. Ambassador Nikki Haley are tied in New Hampshire, according to the latest Republican primary poll from NMB Research.[#item_full_content]

NewsNation Poll: Most Don’t Trust Government on UFOs

A new poll by NewsNation/Decision Desk HQ reveals 63% of Americans say they believe the government has more information about extraterrestrials than it is letting on.

US Judges Reject Alabama District Lines, Will Draw New Ones Based on Race

Federal judges said Tuesday they will draft new congressional lines for Alabama after lawmakers refused to create a second district where Black voters at least came close to comprising a majority, as suggested by the court.[#item_full_content]

Irish parents take action on smartphones amid soaring concerns over children’s mental health

Parents in a town just 45 minutes outside of Dublin have banded together to enforce a smartphone ban for children until they finish elementary school. “It was just the striking results of the rising anxiety, depression and everything we noticed … of having a mobile phone, especially among young kids,” Justyna Flynn, a clinical psychologist […]

US equipment abandoned in Afghanistan now being used by militants in other countries, Pakistani PM says

U.S. military equipment abandoned in Afghanistan has made its way to militant groups in other countries through the Taliban, Pakistan alleged Monday. Pakistan’s caretaker Prime Minister Anwaar-ul-Haq Kakar said terror groups in the country are now using American equipment, including night vision goggles and firearms, in their operations. One group, known as the Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan […]

Austrian actor, who possessed and produced thousands of files of child porn, gets 2-year suspended sentence

An Austrian court on Tuesday found a famous actor guilty of possessing and producing tens of thousands of files of child pornography and sentenced him to a two-year suspended prison sentence. Florian Teichtmeister previously pleaded guilty to collecting and, in some cases, processing, files containing depictions of abuse, public broadcaster ORF reported. The Vienna state […]

Congress Physician: No Evidence McConnell Has Seizure Disorder

There is no evidence Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., has a seizure disorder or suffered a stroke, the attending physician for Congress said Tuesday after the senator froze for the second time in recent weeks.