Giorno: 4 Settembre 2024

Government, regulatory failures made London’s Grenfell Tower a ‘death trap,’ report says

A damning report on a deadly London high-rise fire concluded Wednesday that decades of failures by government, regulators and industry turned Grenfell Tower into a “death trap” where 72 people lost their lives. The public inquiry into the 2017 blaze found no “single cause” of the tragedy, but said a combination of dishonest companies, weak […]

Lindsey Graham puts Amazon ‘on notice’ over Alexa’s potential election interference

FIRST ON FOX: Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., issued a stern warning to Amazon after its virtual assistant technology, Alexa, was found to be politically biased in favor of Vice President Kamala Harris over former President Trump.  Graham, the ranking member of the Senate Committee on the Judiciary, told Amazon president and CEO Andrew Jassy in […]

New Allegation: Secret Service at Rally Unprepared

Sen. Josh Hawley, R-Mo., said new whistleblower allegations reveal that many of the agents assigned to protect former President Donald Trump during the July assassination attempt at a rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, were Homeland Security agents who had limited training.[#item_full_content]

House Dems Aim to Stop Defections in Shutdown Fight

As Congress prepares for another potential battle over government funding, House Democrats are trying to prevent members from breaking ranks and voting for the bill proposed by Republicans to fund the government past the September deadline, Axios reported,[#item_full_content]

Wall Street Edges Down on Weak Job Data, Dovish Fed

U.S. stocks finished slightly down in choppy trading Wednesday following labor market data and comments from a Federal Reserve official that bolster the case for an interest rate cut.[#item_full_content]

House GOP subpoenas Tim Walz over $250M COVID fraud scheme by Minnesota nonprofit

House Republicans sent a subpoena to Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz, Vice President Kamala Harris’ 2024 running mate, over his administration’s handling of taxpayer funds during the COVID-19 pandemic. The subpoenas, sent by the House Education and Workforce Committee, center on a $250 million fraud scheme by a Minnesota-based nonprofit called Feeding Our Future, which the […]

Dem governor reveals CCP official with deep ties to her office ‘no longer’ in role amid former aide’s arrest

New York’s Democratic Gov. Kathy Hochul announced on Wednesday that she spoke with the State Department and “conveyed [her] desire” to have a Chinese diplomat that she and her office have met with repeatedly since 2019 “expelled” from his post in New York after he was referenced dozens of times in an indictment against her […]

Harris now mum on reparations she signaled support for in 2020 White House run

Vice President Harris’ campaign did not reveal her position on reparations for Black Americans when asked Wednesday by Fox News Digital, despite growing anticipation from progressive advocates after California lawmakers withdrew their reparation bills last week. During her earlier presidential bid in 2019, Harris, then a U.S. senator representing California, said she supported “some form […]

Matthew Whitaker to Newsmax: Too Many School Shootings, Child Victims

The U.S. has “too many school shootings and too many children are being victimized in a place that should be very safe,” Matthew Whitaker, former acting Attorney General in the Trump administration, told Newsmax on Wednesday.

Navy leader demoted after she conspired with chiefs to run illegal WiFi network on warship

A US Navy command senior chief was demoted for conspiring with other Navy chiefs to install an illegal WiFi network on a warship that they used to check sports scores and watch TV shows.  Grisel Marrero, a senior enlisted Navy officer, reportedly installed a Starlink network on the USS Manchester called “STINKY.” The command senior […]