• Civil ‘collapse’ feared in election

    Drew Miller, a retired Air Force colonel who oversees a growing network of survival ranches, was a bit ahead of events when he decided this month to game out the 2024 election year on his new Collapse Survivor app used to test reactions to possible disasters. Not too far into Miller’s 110 “exercise messages,” the […]

  • 2024, an election about elections

    2024, AN ELECTION ABOUT ELECTIONS. The new poll out from Fox News has a number of intriguing findings. For example, it shows that in a two-way, head-to-head matchup, former President Donald Trump leads President Joe Biden by 5 points. And in a five-way matchup between Biden, Trump, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Cornel West, and Jill Stein, […]

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    Should the GOP fear a ‘Speaker Jeffries’ before the elections?

    A week ago at this time, the House Republican majority was down to just 219 members. On Friday, that total slipped to 218 as Colorado’s Ken Buck exited Capitol Hill. The same day, Republican Rep. Mike Gallagher of Wisconsin announced that he’s also resigning, which means the GOP majority in the chamber will have just 217 members. On the House floor, that means that Republican leaders will need Democratic votes if more than one of their own members balks in response to any given bill. With...

  • Bulls fall to Washington Wizards for third loss in a row

    CHICAGO (AP) — Jordan Poole scored 23 points and the Washington Wizards won their season-high third straight game, beating the Chicago Bulls 107-105 on Monday night.Corey Kispert added 19 points and 12 rebounds. Marvin Bagley III scored 16 and the Wizards — owners of the NBA's second-worst record — got some payback for a 29-point blowout in Chicago last week.DeMar DeRozan led Chicago with 27 points. Coby White scored 22 as the Bulls lost their third in a row.Poole scored 10 points as...

  • US tuberculosis cases rise for third year in a row: CDC

    Tuberculosis (TB) rates in the U.S. rose by 16 percent in 2023, marking the third year that cases went up following nearly 30 years of decline. In the most recent Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR) from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), the number of TB cases in 2023 was totaled at []

  • Arizona becomes ground zero for 2024 election misinformation fears

    AZ becomes ground zero for '24 election misinfo fears (Second column, 9th story, link) Related stories:Kari Lake and the Trump movement's billion-dollar defamation problem

  • ‘The final act’: fears US journalism crisis could destabilize 2024 election

    Job losses, declining circulations and local newspaper closures could mean spread of misinformation in pivotal election yearAs the election battle between Donald Trump and Joe Biden begins, there are growing fears around the health of the US news media which has been struck by job losses, declining circulations, the closure or crippling of well-known brands and rise of new threats such as fake or AI-generated information on social media.Evidence of this state of crisis abounds. Last year, more...

  • As notorious death row closes, inmates fear what awaits in new prisons

    The prison is being remade into a rehabilitation centre that will not include people sentenced to death.

  • Trump slow to invest in states that could decide election as some in GOP fear ‘skeleton’ campaign

    Trump has been slow to pivot toward the general election in the weeks since executing a hostile takeover of the GOP’s political machinery.

    • KEYT

    Trump slow to invest in states that could decide election as some in GOP fear 'skeleton' campaign

    Trump slow to invest in states that could decide election as some in GOP fear 'skeleton' campaign

    • KIFI

    Trump slow to invest in states that could decide election as some in GOP fear 'skeleton' campaign

    By STEVE PEOPLES AP National Political Writer NEW YORK (AP) — In his bid to retake the White House, few states hold as much promise for Donald Trump as Michigan. The former president has already won the state once and President Joe Biden, who reclaimed it for Democrats in 2020, is confronting vulnerabilities there as

    • KTVZ

    Trump slow to invest in states that could decide election as some in GOP fear 'skeleton' campaign

    By STEVE PEOPLES AP National Political Writer NEW YORK (AP) — In his bid to retake the White House, few states hold as much promise for Donald Trump as Michigan. The former president has already won the state once and President Joe Biden, who reclaimed it for Democrats in 2020, is confronting vulnerabilities there as