Today's Top Political and Coronavirus News Compilation - Thursday, September 1, 2022 (1 Viewer)

President Joe Biden says he doesn't consider any Donald Trump supporter to be a threat to the country.

The Jan. 6 Committee is seeking an interview with former House Speaker Newt Gingrich to discuss his possible role in the Jan. 6 Capitol riot.

Russia has launched weeklong war games that involve forces from China and other nations in a show of growing defense cooperation between Moscow and Beijing as they both face tensions with the U.S.

Alaska Natives are celebrating Democrat Mary Peltola’s historic win in Alaska’s U.S. House special election.

President Biden Thursday delivered a speech slamming 'MAGA Republicans' as threats to democracy in a campaign-style event two months before the midterms.

Democrats praised Biden's calls for unity.

President Joe Biden called on voters to unite against "Make America Great Again" Republicans regardless of their own ideology during a prime-time address in which he urged the public to protect democracy by casting their ballots for Democrats in the November midterm elections.Biden's speech came...

Even on the day that President Joe Biden delivered his most jarring warning yet that democracy is in severe danger, Donald Trump teased how he might use a new White House term to further erode that core American birthright.

The White House said it welcomes a UN report detailing China's potential human rights abuses against Uyghurs but did not dismiss the idea of a meeting between Biden and Xi.

Pennsylvania Democratic Senate nominee John Fetterman, who seeks to defeat his GOP challenger in November, hired two convicted murderers to work for his campaign.

A federal judge appears to have given a boost to former President Donald Trump’s hopes for appointing an outside legal expert to review government records seized by the FBI.

Former President Donald Trump said Thursday he will “very, very seriously” consider full pardons for the rioters who breached the US Capitol on January 6, 2021, if he runs for reelection and wins.

At a hearing on Thursday, attorneys argued over whether the judge should appoint a "special master" to review the documents seized by federal agents.

A retired New York Police Department officer has been sentenced to a record-setting 10 years in prison for attacking the U.S.

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When President Joe Biden delivered a prime-time address in Philadelphia on Thursday, the dark red setting generated a great deal of buzz.Biden's speech, in which he sought to frame November's midterm elections as a continuation of his 2020 cycle's "battle for the soul of the nation" and...

White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre was repeatedly asked Thursday if President Biden's remarks against MAGA Republicans were worsening the political divide in the U.S.

Trump-appointed federal judge calls allegations "troubling," but no grounds for civil suit.

A federal judge has ruled constitutional protections don’t shield U.S. Sen. Lindsey Graham from testifying before a special grand jury investigating possible illegal efforts to overturn then-President Donald Trump’s 2020 election loss in Georgia.

It's the first day of school in Ukraine, but children won't be sharing memories from their holidays. Their stories are of surviving war.

Sarah Palin criticized ranked-choice voting on Thursday after losing to Democrat Mary Peltola in Alaska's special election to fill former Rep. Don Young's term.

Both sides have warned of the risks of an accident at the plant, which is Europe's largest.

President Joe Biden has gone on offense in recent days, attacking GOPers as extremists and MAGA Republicans posing an existential threat to democracy in the midterm elections. Biden has taken the lead on his party's messaging for the fall and will deliver a speech in Philadelphia on Thursday...

“False election information spreads like wildfire," said the top elections official in the critical battleground state.

The House panel investigating the Jan. 6 insurrection is seeking information from former House Speaker Newt Gingrich about his communications with senior advisers to then-President Donald Trump in the days leading up to the 2021 attack on the Capitol.

Surging incursions from Chinese jets are rewriting the status quo in the Taiwan Strait — and leaving the U.S. with few good options.

"As your president, I will fight for democracy with every fiber of my being, and I'm asking every American to join me," President Biden said.

North Korea has called the U.N.’s top expert on the country’s human rights “a puppet” of the United States.

CINCINNATI – Ohio voters will begin casting their ballots in six weeks – and J.D. Vance has been difficult to find.

A man has been detained in Argentina after he reportedly aimed a handgun at point-blank range toward politically powerful Vice President Cristina Fernández.

"Too much of what's happening in our country today is not normal," Biden said as he urged the American people to unite against threats to our democracy.

The state auditor says $70 million in federal welfare funds went to Favre, a volleyball complex and a former pro wrestler in a scandal that has rocked Mississippi.

A federal judge dismissed Carter Page’s lawsuit against fired FBI Director James Comey, the FBI, and others involved in the improper Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act snooping that had relied on British ex-spy Christopher Steele’s dossier. Judge Dabney Friedrich relied on her interpretation...

While likely to alter little in the realm of political comms, Twitter’s plan to allow users to edit tweets after publication may heighten scrutiny of the platform’s effort to combat scammers and disinformation.

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — The top legal counsel for Republican Gov. Bill Lee has taken over the state's attorney general office.

Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot harshly criticized Texas Gov. Greg Abbott during a press conference on Thursday, calling him a "man without any morals."

An attorney representing the family of a man fatally shot in Ohio’s capital city by police has called the shooting senseless and accused the officer of reckless behavior.

With 12 days to go until the GOP Senate primary in the general election battleground of New Hampshire, former President Trump says he’s seriously considering making an endorsement

Public school districts in Arizona, New Mexico, North Carolina, Ohio, South Carolina, Texas and Virginia have announced pilot projects or are already using Starlink — but it’s not cheap.

Julian Khater was charged with assaulting Sicknick and another officer with chemical irritants. His codefendant pleaded guilty in July.

UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres’s spokesman says he was ‘concerned’ by what he read in the damning report.

Strict, anti-abortion Republicans running in competitive House, Senate and governor’s races in key battleground states are trying to distance themselves from their past statements and positions.

For at least the third time in a dozen years, portable toilets are parked outside the ornate Mississippi Capitol because Jackson’s water system is in crisis.

Cristina Fernández de Kirchner escapes unharmed after a gunman's weapon jammed at the last moment.

President Joe Biden has gone on offense in recent days, attacking GOPers as extremists and MAGA Republicans posing an existential threat to democracy in the midterm elections. Biden has taken the lead on his party's messaging for the fall and will deliver a speech in Philadelphia on Thursday...

One of former President Donald Trump's attorneys responded Thursday to the tumult over comments she made about an FBI photo showing classified documents found at Trump's Mar-a-Lago residence in Florida. Alina Habba, the attorney, said on Fox Business that she has never seen classified records...

Without the speaker's support, the bill likely won't make it to a floor vote in the House.

A lawyer for the far-right Oath Keepers extremist group has been charged with conspiracy in connection with the Jan. 6, 2021 attack at the U.S. Capitol.

Local law enforcement agencies from suburban Southern California to rural North Carolina have been using an obscure cellphone tracking tool, at times without search warrants, that gives them the power to follow people’s movements months back in time, according to public records and internal emails o

State and federal officials, along with voting rights advocates, are sounding the alarm about a growing exodus of local election officials as the November midterms draw closer and workers face continued threats and harassment.

DOJ attorneys pushed back sharply against any such limits, warning against disruption of their ongoing criminal investigation.

The wife of U.S. Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas contacted at least two Wisconsin state lawmakers urging them to overturn President Joe Biden’s win in 2020 in the tightly contested state.

The last bits of ash and greenhouse gases from Hawaii’s only remaining coal-fired power plant slipped into the environment this week when the state’s dirtiest source of electricity burned its final pieces of fuel.

Lukoil boss Ravil Maganov is the latest Russian businessman to die in mysterious circumstances.

One of former President Donald Trump's attorneys, Alina Habba, prompted significant questions during an interview Wednesday about who was privy to stolen government documents in the months before the FBI's August raid on Trump's Florida estate, Mar-a-Lago.Habba, who has aided the former...

Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot said on Thursday that she'd be "happy to drain Texas of all its residents” and give them a warm welcome to Chicago.

The grand jury subpoenaed Cipollone last month in connection with the Justice Department’s criminal probe of efforts to overturn the 2020 election results.

As the war in Ukraine stretches into its seventh month, North Korea is hinting at its interest in sending construction workers to help rebuild Russian-occupied territories in the country’s east.

President Joe Biden delivered his sharpest rebuke yet of Republicans and their fealty to his predecessor in an evening speech in Philadelphia on Thursday, alleging they “thrive on chaos” and warning their attempts to undermine democracy could devolve into violence.

Pennsylvania’s Republican nominee for governor is suing the congressional committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S.

IAEA chief says his experts are staying put after they reach Europe’s biggest nuclear power plant.

The protesters showed up with signs and made homophobic and transphobic remarks to event participants, NBC Bay Area reports.

A growing number of scientists is trying to help people reach a goal humans have been chasing throughout history: staying active and vital in old age.

NYPD says applicants will enjoy unusually relaxed standards, but the governor says they're subject to tighter new state laws.

After chatting with a top Chinese Embassy official at luncheon hosted by then-Vice President Biden in 2011, Hunter Biden helped client secure an event at the embassy three months later.

President Joe Biden will host South African President Cyril Ramaphosa at the White House this month as the administration looks to draw African nations closer to the U.S.

The California Legislature this week passed about a dozen bills in what proponents call a “historic” legislative package to protect and expand abortion access in the state, as its Democratic leaders seek to make California a “reproductive freedom” state.

Each ton of carbon dioxide that exits a smokestack or tailpipe is doing far more damage than what governments take into account, researchers conclude in a scientific paper published Thursday.

The judge did not immediately rule on whether to appoint a special master to review documents seized from Mar-a-Lago as lawyers for DOJ and Trump faced off in court for the first time.

FBI agents simultaneously searched three properties Thursday linked to billionaire Russian oligarch Viktor Vekselberg, whose $120 million yacht was seized in April.

Ukraine's Marta Kostyuk says shaking hands with Belarus' Victoria Azarenka after their US Open match would not have been "the right thing to do".

More fires burned in the Brazilian Amazon rainforest this August than in any month in nearly five years, thanks to a surge in illegal deforestation.

Following U.S. Supreme Court rulings on hot-button issues such as abortion and redistricting, voters are now looking at state Supreme Court races as November draws closer.

Test scores released Thursday offer the first nationally representative measurement of how the pandemic affected school learning.

Actor Anne Heche died without a will, and her 20-year-old son has filed court papers to control her estate.

A House committee seeking financial records from former President Donald Trump has reached an agreement that ends litigation on the matter and requires his accounting firm to turn over certain records to the panel.

The “Midnight Train to Georgia” singer said she is sure it was an “honest mistake.”

Chicago is one of the nation's gun violence hotspots and a seemingly ideal place to employ Illinois' "red flag” law that allows police to step in and take firearms away from people who threaten to kill.

Chris Kise, a former Florida solicitor general has been hired, as Trump faced probe over records seized by the FBI from his residence in Florida.

Nearly 1,000 entities that provided California Gov. Gavin Newsom with millions in campaign donations pulled in billions in state contracts last year, a watchdog group found.

Tougher clean energy goals and a ban on new oil and gas wells near homes and schools are among the climate wins for California Democrats in the final days of the legislative session.

The boy, 18 months old, was shot and killed during an interaction between his father and police in 2020.

Oil and gas company Lukoil issued a statement early Thursday confirming the death of Ravil Maganov, 67, “after a severe illness” but did not specify the cause.

House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy on Thursday called on President Joe Biden to apologize for invoking fascism to describe the ideology of former President Donald Trump and his supporters.

The woman who accused an NFL punter and two of his college teammates of raping her at a party last year shared details about the incident in an interview with ABC News.

A Wisconsin man who has admitted he improperly requested other voters’ absentee ballots in an effort to prove election fraud has been charged with election fraud, the state’s Department of Justice announced Thursday.

A Kansas teacher who argued she had a religious belief that prevented her from calling transgender or nonbinary students by their preferred names and pronouns reached a $95,000 settlement with school district officials, according to a release from the teacher’s attorneys.

More than 14,000 strollers are being recalled due to an issue that can cause amputation or laceration if a child’s fingertips get caught.

Judge Aileen M. Cannon heard arguments about whether she should appoint a "special master" to review documents the FBI seized from Trump's Mar-a-Lago estate.

Tracking tool "Fog Reveal," in use since 2018, allows cops to access phone IDs and follow people's movements.

Nvidia says two of its top computer chips were affected by a new licence requirement for exporting to China.

House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy slammed President Biden for allegedly insulting GOP voters and criticized Democrats' record ahead of the midterms.

Engineers developed a work around to avoid a repeat of the engine cooling problem that derailed Monday's launch try.

Newly obtained fire department radio traffic and records reveal the prolonged effort to rescue the actor after a fiery crash in California.

“Saturday Night Live” veteran castmember Rob Schneider says the long-running sketch show was “over” after Kate McKinnon’s 2016 performance of “Hallelujah.”

At least a dozen inmates have died this year in the custody of the New York City Department of Correction.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has endorsed updated COIVD-19 boosters. The decision opens the way for a fall vaccination campaign that could blunt a winter surge if enough Americans roll up their sleeves.

The CDC recommended updated boosters, which target the original virus as well as the omicron BA.4 and BA.5 subvariants, for adults and teens on Thursday.

The Biden administration hopes to make getting a COVID-19 booster as routine as going in for the yearly flu shot.

School officials and administrators reveal how they're addressing monkeypox as the outbreak looms and students head back to classrooms for the fall semester.

Federal health officials say thousands of updated booster shots are already being shipped around the country.

The European Medicines Agency has recommended the authorization of two coronavirus vaccines made by Pfizer-BioNTech and Moderna Inc., tweaked to include protection against an early version of the omicron variant.

The White House on Thursday denied the Biden administration was to blame for the decline in reading and math scores among children during the COVID-19 pandemic.

A new CDC report has found that first and second booster coverage is low among Black and Hispanic Americans compared to white and Asian Americans.

Hesitant parents and challenging logistics are slowing the effort to get the nation’s youngest protected against Covid-19.

The boosters will target the latest omicron subvariants, BA.4 and BA.5, which make up 99% of new U.S. cases.