An Iowa resident who recently traveled to West Africa has died from a fever caused by the Lassa virus, the state’s Department of Health and Human Services said on Oct. 28. The department said it believed that the person, whose name, age, and gender have not been disclosed, contracted the virus while in Africa. The […]
Ballots that arrive by mail can be counted up to three days after Election Day, the Nevada Supreme Court ruled on Oct. 28. The state’s top court turned away a challenge to a state law that says ballots that arrive without clear postmarks, provided they’re received no later than 5 p.m. on the third day […]
Former President Donald Trump’s presidential campaign has distanced itself from remarks made by a comedian who spoke at a Trump rally over the weekend. “This joke does not reflect the views of President Trump or the campaign,” Danielle Alvarez, a senior adviser for the campaign, told news outlets in a statement. Tony Hinchcliffe, a stand-up […]
The Washington Post will not make an endorsement in the 2024 presidential race, the paper’s publisher said on Oct. 25. “We are returning to our roots of not endorsing presidential candidates,” William Lewis, the publisher and CEO, said in an opinion article. The Washington Post did not offer endorsements for presidential candidates until 1976. Since […]
A federal judge has turned away allegations that billionaire Elon Musk violated the law when he started giving $1 million away to registered voters. California resident Aaron Greenspan in a lawsuit filed over the summer accused Musk of violating state laws and the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations (RICO) Act. In a recent emergency motion, […]
The IRS on Oct. 22 unveiled the new federal income tax brackets for 2025. Every bracket was changed, including the top one. Single taxpayers making more than $636,350, or couples making more than $751,600, will be subject to a 37 percent tax rate. That’s up from $609,350, and $731,200, respectively. Here are the other new […]
Five men cleared of rape charges sued former President Donald Trump on Oct. 21, arguing he defamed them with comments he made at a recent presidential debate. Trump said during the September debate with Vice President Kamala Harris that the so-called Central Park Five “pled guilty” and that they “badly hurt a person” and “killed […]
A federal agency is investigating Tesla’s self-driving system after a Tesla vehicle hit a pedestrian, who died. The U.S. Department of Transportation’s National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) opened the investigation on Oct. 17, according to a document from the agency. The administration’s Office of Defects Investigation found four reports outlining Tesla crashes amid conditions […]
Florida authorities on Oct. 16 sued the U.S. government, alleging that U.S. officials are illegally refusing to cooperate with Florida’s effort to remove noncitizens from its voter rolls. State law requires state authorities to maintain accurate voter registration records. Federal law requires the federal government to respond to inquiries from federal, state, and local government […]
A grand jury in Georgia on Oct. 17 indicted a father and his son on murder charges for a mass shooting that took place earlier this year. Georgia media outlets reported that the Barrow County grand jury meeting in Winder indicted Colt Gray, 14, on a total of 55 counts, including four counts of malice […]
A man who was arrested on Oct. 12 outside of a rally of former President Donald Trump has sued a California sheriff who said his department thwarted an assassination attempt. Vem Miller, a Nevada resident, says the sheriff and deputies violated his constitutional rights when they arrested him, searched his vehicle, and told the press […]
Mississippi law enforcement officers wrongly seized hundreds of thousands of dollars from a man after pulling him over, the state’s appeals court ruled on Oct. 8. Brandon Police Department officers wrongly took what Rae Young Chung, a South Korean native and California resident, described as his life savings, the Court of Appeals of the State […]
A judge’s ruling striking down Georgia’s abortion ban was stayed on Oct. 7 by the Georgia Supreme Court. The stay means the ban on abortions after a fetal heartbeat is detected will go back into effect as the case proceeds. Six justices granted a request by Georgia officials to reinstate the law after a county […]
A federal judge on Oct. 3 blocked President Joe Biden’s student loan cancellation plan, one day after a different judge said he would not extend a block on the program. U.S. District Judge Matthew Schelp, citing an earlier appeals court decision in a case against a separate loan cancellation plan, said that plaintiff states that […]
Elon Musk said on Oct. 3 that he will attend former President Donald Trump’s upcoming rally in Butler, Pennsylvania. “I will be there to support!” Musk wrote on X, the social media platform that he mostly owns. Trump has a rally scheduled for Saturday at the Butler Farm Show, where he was struck by a […]
Former President Donald Trump said in a new interview that he would revoke the legal status of Haitian immigrants living in Springfield, Ohio, and work to deport them back to their native country. “It has nothing to do with Haiti or anything else. It doesn’t work. You have to remove the people, and you have […]
Approximately 218,000 voters in Arizona have not provided proof of citizenship, the state’s top election official said on Sept. 30. That’s up from 97,688 disclosed previously. The new set of about 120,000 voters was identified as officials work to fix what they call a coding error in databases for Arizona voters and drivers. The error […]
U.S. prosecutors have charged three Iranians for allegedly being behind the hack of a presidential campaign. Masoud Jalili, Seyyed Ali Aghamiri, and Yasar Balaghi helped hack a 2024 U.S. presidential campaign, according to court documents filed in Washington, unsealed on Sept. 27 and obtained by The Epoch Times. The trio worked with the Islamic Revolutionary […]
President Joe Biden on Sept. 26 announced his administration will spend nearly $8 billion to help Ukraine fight against Russia, the latest mammoth expenditure the United States has pledged since Russia invaded Ukraine in 2022. The aid will help Ukraine “win this war,” Biden said in a statement released by the White House. The aid […]
The son of a man arrested for allegedly trying to assassinate former President Donald Trump has been taken into custody and charged with possessing child sex images, according to court documents. Oran Alexander Routh of North Carolina was arrested on Sept. 24, a day after a federal magistrate judge signed an arrest warrant, according to […]