The Supreme Court cleared the way Thursday for a provision of Arizona law that requires proof of citizenship to register to vote in some circumstances, the first time the high court has weighed in on a voting dispute in the run-up to the presidential election. The high court’s 5-4 action follows an emergency appeal by […]Read More
The former CEO of a small Kansas bank was sentenced to more than 24 years in prison for looting the bank of $47 million — which he sent to cryptocurrency wallets controlled by scammers who had duped him in a “pig butchering” scheme that appealed to his greed, federal prosecutors said. The massive embezzlement by ex-CEO Shan Hanes in a series […]Read More
The highest criminal appeals court in Texas will reconsider the illegal-voting charge against a woman whose conviction and five-year prison sentence were overturned earlier this year. The Texas Court of Criminal Appeals decided Wednesday that it would reexamine the case of Crystal Mason, a Fort Worth mother of three who cast a provisional ballot in […]Read More
Few people have invested more personal time and energy in anything than Donald Trump has invested in convincing the world, and perhaps himself, that he is more popular than the publicly available evidence would suggest. Trump has been the Republican nominee twice before, earning about 3 million fewer votes than Hillary Clinton in 2016 and […]Read More
U.S. job gains over the 12 months ending in March were revised downward Wednesday by 818,000 — a significant revision that adds to recent concerns that the economy has been slowing. The change means that roughly 2.1 million jobs were created in the U.S. in the past year, compared with about 2.9 million prior to […]Read More
Federal Reserve officials at their July meeting moved closer to a long-awaited interest rate reduction, but stopped short while indicating that a September cut had grown increasingly probable, minutes released Wednesday showed. “The vast majority” of participants at the July 30-31 meeting “observed that, if the data continued to come in about as expected, it would likely […]Read More
In the days after he was announced as Vice President Kamala Harris’s running mate, a photo of Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz (D) circulated widely on social media. It depicted a sitting, smiling Walz being swarmed by kids smothering him with hugs. There wasn’t any mystery about why the photo was being picked up by Harris […]Read More
As the presidential election creeps closer, political discussions are casting a shadow on workplace culture, new data from Gallup shows. As of February, nearly half of U.S. workers had talked politics with a co-worker in the past month, a figure “that has likely only increased as the presidential election has progressed,” the report from Gallup […]Read More
DETROIT — Ford Motor is delaying production of a next-generation all-electric pickup truck at a new plant in Tennessee and canceling plans for a three-row electric SUV, the company said Wednesday. Instead, Ford said it will prioritize the development of hybrid models, as well as electric commercial vehicles such as a new electric commercial van in 2026, followed by […]Read More
Former president Bill Clinton, speaking during the third night of the Democratic convention on Wednesday, presented a bit of data meant to promote his party — and, indirectly, his period in office. “You’re going to have a hard time believing this, but so help me, I triple-checked it,” Clinton began. “Since the end of the […]Read More
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