WH Wants $23.5B for Natural Disaster Response

The White House is asking lawmakers for more than $23 billion in emergency funding to help the government respond to the tornadoes, wildfires, hurricanes, and other natural disasters that have ripped through the U.S. this year.[#item_full_content]

Trump: Meadows ‘Weak,’ ‘Coward’ If He Took Plea Deal

Donald Trump suggested Wednesday that Mark Meadows, his former White House chief of staff, would be a “weakling and a coward” for taking a plead deal from special counsel Jack Smith to testify against him regarding alleged efforts to subvert the 2020 election results.[#item_full_content]

Leftist Ukraine skeptic Robert Fico back in as Slovak prime minister

Slovakia’s president swore in a new government Wednesday, led by a former populist prime minister poised to end the country’s military aid for Ukraine as it fights Russia’s invasion. Robert Fico returned to power and took over as prime minister for the fourth time after his leftist Smer, or Direction, party won Slovakia’s Sept 30 […]

Hurricane Otis, strongest storm in eastern Pacific’s history, tears through Acapulco

Hurricane Otis ripped across Mexico’s southern Pacific coast as a powerful Category 5 storm early Wednesday, tearing through buildings in the resort city of Acapulco, sending sheets of earth down steep mountainsides and leaving large swaths of the southwestern state of Guerrero without power or cellphone service. While little is known about possible deaths or […]