McCarthy’s Plan to Keep Govt Open Collapses; Shutdown Almost Certain
House Speaker Kevin McCarthy’s last-ditch plan to keep the federal government temporarily open collapsed on Friday as GOP holdouts rejected the package, making a shutdown almost certain.
Senator Rick Scott to roll out measure to ‘keep our border agents paid’ during possible government shutdown
EXCLUSIVE: Sen. Rick Scott, R-Fla., is rolling out a measure Friday to ensure that U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) agents and U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents are paid in the event of a government shutdown, Fox News Digital has learned. The bill, titled the “Keep Our Border Agents Paid Act,” would make […]
GOP rebels, Dems sink House stopgap funding bill less than 48 hours before likely government shutdown
A group of GOP hardliners joined Democrats in sinking House Republicans’ stopgap funding bill on Friday, significantly raising the chances of a government shutdown happening over the weekend. A procedural vote to advance the bill passed earlier in the day, but final passage failed on an 198 to 232 vote. Twenty-one Republicans voted against it, […]
Girl Scout Cookie Prices Soar
The price of Girl Scout cookies in some areas are increasing because of inflation. The Girl Scouts Heart of the Hudson (GSHH) in New York emailed troop parents and other community members to say that all cookies will be sold for $6 per box this coming season.
Top US General Milley Retires, Hands Reins to Brown
Top U.S. general Mark Milley retired Friday after a four-year tenure, and was hailed by President Joe Biden as a warrior who served in war zones from Afghanistan and Iraq to Panama and Haiti.[#item_full_content]
Sources: Man Arrested in Rapper Tupac Shakur’s 1996 Killing
Las Vegas police have arrested a man in the deadly 1996 drive-by shooting of Tupac Shakur, a long-awaited break in a case that has frustrated investigators and fascinated the public ever since the hip-hop icon was gunned down on the Las Vegas Strip 27 years ago.[#item_full_content]
Plane crash claims 6 lives at Zimbabwean mining company-owned site
A small plane owned by a mining company crashed in Zimbabwe on Friday and aviation authorities said preliminary reports indicated that all six people on board were killed. The plane belonged to Zimbabwe’s RioZim Limited, Civil Aviation Authority of Zimbabwe director Elijah Chingosho said. It crashed near the Murowa Diamonds mine, in southwestern Zimbabwe, which […]
Norway to bar Russian-registered cars in line with EU sanctions
Norway announced Friday that it will start barring Russian-registered passenger cars from entering the Scandinavian country starting next week, mirroring sanctions imposed by the European Union against Moscow over its war on Ukraine. Norway, which is a member of NATO but not of the EU, has a 123-mile-long border in the Arctic with Russia. The […]
Spanish court rejects appeal to reopen John Mcafee’s death investigation
A Spanish court has turned down an appeal to reopen the investigation into the 2021 death of British-American tycoon John McAfee, the creator of McAfee antivirus software, who was found dead in his jail cell near Barcelona as he awaited extradition to America. Authorities had determined that the 75-year-old killed himself and there was nothing […]
Honk Kong police arrest an additional 4 linked to $200M JPEX cryptocurrency scam
Police in Hong Kong and Macao said Friday they arrested four more people linked to the cryptocurrency platform JPEX, which is suspected to have defrauded more than 2,400 people of almost $200 million. The arrests bring the total number of people detained so far in the case to 18. Police have received 2,417 reports involving […]
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