Dangerous super typhoon barreling toward group of remote US islands

Typhoon expected to make landfall Tuesday in Northern Mariana Islands and bring heavy winds, rain and flooding A dangerous super typhoon in the Pacific Ocean is barreling toward a group of remote US islands. Super Typhoon Sinlaku is expected to make landfall on Tuesday in the Northern Mariana Islands and bring destructive winds, widespread heavy … Read more

Democrats build midterm momentum, but Republicans still in driver’s seat in Senate majority battle

A leading nonpartisan political handicapper predicts that the Democrats’ path to winning back the Senate majority in this year’s midterm elections is getting wider thanks to a rough political climate for the GOP, but that capturing control of the chamber remains a “tall order.” The Cook Political Report on Monday shifted the ratings in four … Read more

Trump media company drops lawsuit against the Guardian

TMTG drops defamation claim over report that prosecutors were investigating payments received as possible money laundering Donald Trump’s media corporation has dropped a defamation claim against the Guardian and two other defendants over a report that federal prosecutors were investigating $8m in payments the company received from entities with ties to Vladimir Putin as possible … Read more

Georgia Republican governor candidate runs slew of anti-immigration ads ahead of primary

Rick Jackson is flooding Georgia’s media markets with ads attacking immigrants, transgender people and DEI A campaign ad from Republican gubernatorial candidate Rick Jackson pledging that unauthorized immigrants committing violent crimes will end up “deported or departed” has inundated streaming services and social media in Georgia for weeks. “I don’t care if you’re a Muslim … Read more