news2shortsInvestigation finds very high levels of lead and arsenic in homes near a factory processing US toxic waste Raquel Villarreal lives in a bright-yellow house in Mexico’s Monterrey metropolitan area with her family and nine cats. Here, the emergency medicine doctor has raised three daughters, one of whom died at the age of 14. Just … Read more
Pete Hegseth, Donald Trump’s pick to run the Department of Defense, is set to begin confirmation hearings Tuesday on Capitol Hill. In his opening statement obtained by NBC News, he leans into his outside perspective. “It’s time to give someone with dust on his boots the helm,” he is expected to say. NBC’s Ryan Nobles … Read more
Special counsel Jack Smith says the government had enough evidence to convict Donald Trump if he had not been reelected. The report on Trump’s alleged efforts to overturn the 2020 election was set to go to a jury in Washington if not for the Justice Department’s longstanding policy to not prosecute a sitting president. NBC’s … Read more
Senate Democratic Whip Dick Durbin, D-Ill., declared in a statement that he intends to vote to confirm Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., to serve as Secretary of State. “Senator Rubio and I share many similar views on foreign policy and as a result, have worked closely together in the Senate to move forward with legislation regarding … Read more
With fire weather expected to continue until at least Wednesday, officials have pre-deployed firefighters across surrounding counties Tell us about the financial consequences you are facing due to the California fires California homeowners and business owners who lost everything in the devastating Los Angeles-area fires now have to tackle their insurance companies to recover the … Read more
President-elect Trump took one more dig at Jack Smith after the Justice Department released the former special counsel’s report early Tuesday. Attorney General Merrick Garland released the first volume, which focuses on the election case against Trump, of Smith’s report on Tuesday at midnight after back-and-forth in the federal court system. The report was released … Read more
The Justice Department made public Volume I of Special Counsel Jack Smith’s final report on his now-closed investigations into President-elect Donald Trump, days before he is set to be sworn into office. Attorney General Merrick Garland released the first volume, which focuses on the election case against Trump, of Smith’s report on Tuesday at midnight … Read more
Coffee chain reverses policy introduced in North America in 2018 that let anyone use its facilities Business live – latest updates Starbucks has said that people using its coffee shops in North America need to buy something, u-turning on a policy which allowed anyone to use its toilets even if they had not made a … Read more
Fascism in power in the 1930s brought the world to genocidal war. But memories have faded, as has the stigma attached to the far-right – and that’s dangerous Democracy is dying across the globe. This may sound alarmist and generate a follow-up question: what does that actually mean? Will there be no elections? Will the … Read more
Raducanu overcomes serving woes to battle through Djokovic-Murray show begins | And mail Daniel here Musetti, seeded 16, has taken the third-set breaker to lead Arnaldi by two sets to one; Shelton, seeded 21, leads Nakshima 7-6 7-5 6-5; and Popyrin and Moutet are locked into another brutal game, the clock ticking towards seven minutes … Read more
