Tim Kaine And Corey Stewart Meet For First U.s. Senate Debate In Virginia

President-elect Donald Trump asked the Supreme Court on Friday to pause the potential TikTok ban from going into effect until his administration can pursue a “political resolution” to the issue, the AP reports. CNN: Trump’s request for a delay in implementing the ban puts him at odds with the Biden administration, which defended the law in its own brief Friday, warning of “grave” national security concerns about TikTok’s continued operation in the U.

“Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen said Friday she expects the U. S. will officially run up against its borrowing limit in mid- to late-January, starting the clock on a major fiscal challenge facing President-elect Donald Trump in his first months in office,” Politico reports. New York Times: “The debt limit was suspended in June 2023 after a contentious negotiation over federal spending, work requirements for receiving government benefits and funding for the Internal Revenue Service.

Kennedy is a former environmental lawyer who is utterly unqualified to hold any position with power over anyone’s health, much less a huge department that includes the National Institutes of Health and the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. Mother Jones wrote, “If Kennedy—who has also promoted dangerous and ludicrous ideas about fluoride, 5G technology, and the causes of HIV/AIDS, among innumerable other pseudoscientific claims—assumes the position, ‘the damage he could do is near infinite,’ warns Dr.

An Oregon house cat died after eating pet food that tested positive for bird flu, Oregon authorities said, prompting a recall of raw frozen pet food that was sold nationwide. Via HuffPost: Northwest Naturals, a pet food company based in Portland, Oregon, said Tuesday it had voluntarily recalled one batch of its two-pound Feline Turkey Recipe raw frozen pet food after it tested positive for the virus.

In a blow to right-wing efforts to ban books and criminalize librarians, a federal judge on Monday struck down key provisions of an Arkansas law as unconstitutional—though the fight is far from over, with the Republican state attorney general planning to appeal. Republican Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders signed Act 372 in March 2023.

I’m sick and tired of a small subculture taking for itself a symbol of tremendous natural beauty and core Judeo-Christian religious significance.