MadAboutPolitics.com - Featured News

Featured News

Today's Top News Compilation - Sunday, Jan 5th, 2020

  • 667
  • 0
Below are the top political news stories of the day: ¯\_(?)_/¯

Latest Posts from our Message Boards

Latest Political News Feed

Musk gives away $1m cheques ahead of Wisconsin's Supreme Court election

  • News source: BBC News - World
  • Replies: 0
  • Views: 5
The state's attorney general tried to block the giveaway arguing it was an illegal bid to buy votes.
Continue reading...

Greenland prime minister says US will not take control of island

  • News source: The Associated Press
  • Replies: 0
  • Views: 5
The prime minister of Greenland pushed back Sunday against assertions by President Donald Trump that America will take control of the island territory.

Greenland, a huge, resource-rich island in the Atlantic, is a self-governing territory of Denmark, a NATO ally of the United States. Trump wants to annex the territory, claiming it’s needed for national security purposes.

“President Trump says that the United States ‘will get Greenland.’ Let me be clear: The United States will not get it. We do not belong to anyone else. We decide our own future,”...
Continue reading...

Trump says Zelenskyy wants to back out of mineral deal, addresses 3rd term during gaggle

  • News source: FOX News
  • Replies: 0
  • Views: 7
President Donald Trump said Sunday that Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy is trying to back out of a rare earth deal with the U.S., adding if he does that he is going to have "some problems."

"I think Zelenskyy, by the way, he’s trying to back out of the rare earth deal, and if he does that, he’s got some problems – big, big problems," Trump said while speaking to reporters on Air Force One on Sunday. "We made a deal on rare earths, and now he’s saying, ‘well, you know, I want to renegotiate the deal.’ He wants to be a member of NATO. Well, he...
Continue reading...

Red Cross outraged over killing of eight medics in Gaza

  • News source: BBC News - World
  • Replies: 0
  • Views: 7
The ambulance team came under fire last Sunday in what Hamas said was an Israeli military attack.
Continue reading...

In pictures: Eid celebrations around the world

  • News source: BBC News - World
  • Replies: 0
  • Views: 6
Muslims around the world celebrate Eid al-Fitr, the festival marking the end of Ramadan.
Continue reading...

Wisconsin Supreme Court rejects Democrat AG's attempt to block Elon Musk's $1M giveaway to voters

  • News source: FOX News
  • Replies: 0
  • Views: 7
The Wisconsin Supreme Court unanimously decided not to hear a last-minute attempt by the state attorney general seeking to prevent Elon Musk from giving away million-dollar checks on Sunday.

The news came just before the Tesla CEO was set to host an America PAC town hall in Green Bay on Sunday night. Musk is slated to hand over $1 million checks to two voters who signed a petition against "activist judges."

Badger State voters elect Wisconsin Supreme Court justices to 10-year terms, and Musk was there to support candidate Brad Schimel, a Republican...
Continue reading...

Wisconsin Supreme Court refuses to take case challenging Elon Musk's $1 million payments

  • News source: Scott Bauer | The Associated Press
  • Replies: 0
  • Views: 7
A unanimous Wisconsin Supreme Court on Sunday refused to hear a last-minute attempt by the state's Democratic attorney general to stop billionaire Elon Musk from handing over $1 million checks to two voters, a ruling that came just minutes before the planned start of the rally.

Two lower courts had already rejected the legal challenge by Democrat Josh Kaul, who argues that Musk's offer violates a state law. “Wisconsin law prohibits offering anything of value to induce anyone to vote,” Kaul argued in his filing. “Yet, Elon Musk did just that.”

But...
Continue reading...

Secret filming reveals brazen tactics of immigration scammers

  • News source: BBC News - World
  • Replies: 0
  • Views: 10
An undercover BBC investigation exposes how rogue agents are exploiting a UK visa scheme.
Continue reading...

Trump wants India to buy US corn - but here's why it probably won't

  • News source: BBC News - World
  • Replies: 0
  • Views: 7
India feeds over a billion people, yet low yields and poor infrastructure keep agriculture lagging.
Continue reading...

Rocket crashes back to Earth just moments after launch in Norway

  • News source: BBC News - World
  • Replies: 0
  • Views: 5
The Spectrum rocket's first test flight lasted 30 seconds but researchers say it will still provide useful data.
Continue reading...

Historic tree planted nearly 200 years ago to be cut down at the White House

  • News source: The Associated Press
  • Replies: 0
  • Views: 10
A tree that's nearly two centuries old will be removed from the White House grounds because it's deteriorating, President Donald Trump said Sunday.

The southern magnolia stands near the curved portico on the south side of the building. It's where foreign leaders are often welcomed for ceremonial visits, and where the president departs to board the Marine One helicopter.

According to the National Park Service website, “folklore tells us” that President Andrew Jackson brought the tree’s seeds from his home near Nashville, Tennessee. It was apparently...
Continue reading...

HUD chief showcases how private-public partnerships uplift economically neglected areas in Philly tour

  • News source: FOX News
  • Replies: 0
  • Views: 10
Housing and Urban Development Secretary Scott Turner is reinvigorating the private sector's role in aiding economically distressed areas that have been neglected for decades – including touring areas of Philadelphia that have seen massive development since he served in the first Trump administration.

"The last five years have brought $84 billion of private investment. One million people have gotten lifted off the poverty rolls. Home values and Opportunity Zones have risen, while rents did not go up. And so the Opportunity Zones initiative is not...
Continue reading...

Russia targets Ukrainian military hospital as Trump lashes out at Putin

  • News source: Politics - CBSNews.com
  • Replies: 0
  • Views: 11
Russian drones targeted a military hospital, a shopping center and apartment blocks in Ukraine's second-largest city, killing two people and wounding dozens. Elsewhere, President Trump offered his most critical comments at Russian President Vladimir Putin for comments he made about the leader of Ukraine.

Six strikes in a "deliberate, targeted shelling" hit the northeastern border city of Kharkiv, wounding service members who were undergoing treatment, Ukraine's General Staff said. Regional Gov. Oleh Syniehubov said the two casualties were a...
Continue reading...

Decision day in court for Marine Le Pen's French presidential hopes

  • News source: BBC News - World
  • Replies: 0
  • Views: 12
Accused of misusing EU funds, Monday's verdict could determine whether the far-right National Rally leader can run again.
Continue reading...

General News Feed

Fact Checkers News Feed

Back
Top Bottom