Today's Top Political and Coronavirus News Compilation - Friday, September 2, 2022 (1 Viewer)

Besides documents marked top secret and classified, newly unsealed information shows Trump also had a mountain of other documents and photos.

A spokesperson for the Chinese Embassy in Washington said, “China will resolutely take legitimate and necessary countermeasures in light of the development of the situation."

A federal judge on Friday denied Steve Bannon’s request for a new trial, after the former Trump adviser was convicted of contempt of Congress for defying a subpoena from the House select committee investigating the January 6, 2021, attack.

President Biden named John Podesta to be senior adviser charged with implementing the recently passed law to address climate change.

The Biden administration has announced a more than $1 billion arms sale to Taiwan as U.S.-China tensions escalate over the status of the island.

“There has been a remarkable number of suspicious deaths in recent months of senior executives connected with the oil and gas industry,” one expert said.

The American Jewish Committee condemned a tweet from Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) that compared President Joe Biden to Adolf Hitler and called on Republican leadership to do so as well. Greene tweeted a clip of Biden's speech from Philadelphia on Thursday, except the video was heavily...

Weather forecasters are taking a look off the East coast as the first major hurricane of the season moves slowly through the Atlantic.

“We’re already in a life-or-death crisis,” said a Jackson resident and activist who is helping to distribute water in the city.

Protesters affiliated to 2019 protest movement demand political change after deadly clashes between main Shia factions.

The VA said Friday it considers access to medically necessary abortions “essential for preserving the life and health of veterans and VA beneficiaries.”

The Iranian Navy seized two US Navy maritime drones in international waters in the Red Sea on Thursday.

The list of items taken from Trump's Mar-a-Lago estate included items ranging from printed news articles to classified documents to gifts.

The Fed is rapidly raising interest rates to try to cool hiring and wage growth, which have been consistently strong.

The nation’s job market last month delivered just what the Federal Reserve and nervous investors hoped for: A Goldilocks-style hiring report.

President Joe Biden and Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo are announcing $1 billion in federal grants for manufacturing, clean energy, farming, biotech and more.

Russia says it has found a leak on Nord Stream 1, but the EU accuses Moscow of using gas as a weapon.

A trans streamer and a Republican congresswoman were targeted at their homes in the last month. Experts warn this is just the beginning.

The White House counsel under then-President Donald Trump and his top deputy have arrived at a federal courthouse to appear before a federal grand jury investigating efforts to undo the 2020 presidential election.

At least three people reported seeing a creature they believed could be Bigfoot last month in what officials are calling a "credible incident." The three visited South Carolina's Hunting Island State Park on Aug. 3, according to a report. A creature they thought was around 5 to 6 feet tall...

Former Trump Attorney General Bill Barr criticized the former president's handling of classified information.

Potential sale of anti-ship and air-to-air missiles to Taiwan comes amid heightened tensions between US and China.

The committee decided that the effort to obtain the data has been overtaken by other developments in the investigation.

President Joe Biden addressed the nation from Independence Hall in Philadelphia on Thursday evening, warning voters that the future of democracy was at risk during the midterm elections in November. During the prime-time address, Biden leaned into the recent momentum his party has gained in...

The discovery of top secret documents stored in Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago office means that recent visitors may have been in close proximity to classified material.

Within a week of the FBI search of former President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago resort, former White House chief of staff Mark Meadows handed over texts and emails to the National Archives that he had not previously turned over from his time in the administration, sources familiar with the matter...

Karine Jean-Pierre said on Friday that President Biden's speech in Philadelphia in which he slammed Trump and "MAGA Republicans" was "not political."

U.S. seeks to stymie contagion effect of Solomon Islands’ Beijing tilt.

Thirty-seven people were rescued near Eagle Pass, officials said.

The leader of the national Black Lives Matter group has been accused of stealing more than $10 million from the charity’s donors.Black Lives Matter Grassroots, a nonprofit group that represents local BLM chapters across the country, accused the BLM Global Network Foundation and its board...

President Biden is making the midterms about Trump and his supporters' alleged threat to democracy, which could help Democrats. But the GOP is also using Trump as an election issue

Alina López Miyares was released after being jailed in Cuba for 5 years on espionage charges, but has not been allowed to return to the U.S.

Video EmbedMary Peltola's win in Alaska's special election on Wednesday appears to bolster what election analysts have suspected for weeks — Democrats' political fortunes are improving in what was expected to be a red wave election year.Peltola, the first Democrat to win statewide

Former President Trump's one-time national security adviser addresses Trump's handling of classified information.

A hearing Thursday in West Palm Beach, Florida, was the first chance former President Donald Trump’s lawyers had to convince US District Judge Aileen Cannon in person that the FBI search warrant on Mar-a-Lago for government records, including those identified as classified, was unwarranted and...

It’s no accident the current and former presidents are both stumping in the Keystone state this weekend.

The incident marks the second time US drones were seized in a week amid stalled negotiations over Iran’s nuclear deal.

President Joe Biden has brought back a veteran of past Democratic administrations to put in place the climate part of the Inflation Reduction Act.

Biden portrayed Trump and "MAGA Republicans" as representative of "an extremism that threatens the very foundations of our Republic."

CNN's John Harwood announced he's the latest to leave the network, explaining Friday that he is leaving his gig as White House correspondent. Harwood has been the correspondent since January 2020, previously working as CNBC's correspondent from 2006-2019. His departure comes after the network's...

On Thursday, an Islamic Republic of Iran Navy warship in the Red Sea picked two U.S. Saildrones out of the water and held them until Friday.

President Biden promised in 2020 not to use the military as a "prop," something he is accused of doing in Thursday's speech outside Independence Hall in Philadelphia.

An inventory shows dozens of empty folders were seized from Donald Trump's home after an FBI search.

The data was posted on its website for a year before being recently discovered and removed.

It's been more than a decade since the Obamas welcomed George W. Bush back to the White House.

People in Jackson, Mississippi are unable to use tap water after flooding disabled a water treatment centre.

Trump's instinct for casual savagery used to be abnormal. Now it's part of the everyday diet of American political life, replicated by both Democrats and Republicans.

Teachers union leader Randi Weingarten claimed Thursday that it was politicians who have turned teachers into "social justice warriors." Parents and teachers want to focus on what is best for the children, Weingarten said during a town hall with Education Secretary Miguel Cardona, but...

Mississippi's capital city is struggling with its water system. Many of Jackson's 150,000 residents have had little or no water coming from their faucets the past several days.

The Internal Revenue Service acknowledged Friday that it had inadvertently exposed a batch of taxpayer information linked to some non-profits and other tax-exempt organizations, following a Wall Street Journal report that said as many as 120,000 individuals may have been affected by the error.

A federal judge on Friday unsealed a more detailed inventory of what the FBI seized at Mar-a-Lago last month.

House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy pressed Attorney General Merrick Garland and FBI Director Christopher Wray to appear before the House Judiciary Committee.

Investigators probing efforts to meddle with the 2020 election results in Georgia are seeking testimony from Harrison Floyd, a leader with the organization Black Voices for Trump, about his alleged role in a plot to pressure a Georgia election worker to falsely admit election fraud.

At least eight prominent Russian businessmen have died under unusual circumstances this year, including by apparent suicide or unexplained accidents. Six of the men were connected to Russia's two largest energy companies, Gazprom and Lukoil. The most recent death occurred Thursday when Lukoil's...

An apparent assassination attempt against Argentina’s powerful Vice President Cristina Fernández has shaken the country and threatened to further roil its tumultuous political scene.

Despite President Biden's divisive "MAGA Republicans" speech, Democrats have spent over $46 million to help pro-Trump candidates win their primaries.

The former attorney general has been an open critic of the former president.

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

Over 1.1 million COVID-19 stimulus checks, totaling over $1.3 billion, were sent out to incarcerated people across the United States, data from the Internal Revenue Service revealed. The $1.3 billion figure includes economic impact payments and does not account for recovery rebate credits...

Energy giant says it cannot restart gas deliveries after finding faults in Nord Stream 1 pipeline during maintenance.

The Russian state-run energy company had shut down the Nord Stream 1 pipeline on Wednesday for what it said would be three days of maintenance.

Planned Parenthood spent nearly $3.8 million in against Dr. Mehmet Oz in his Senate race agains Democrat Lt. Gov. John Fetterman.

A Georgia prosecutor says a poll worker was pressured and threatened with imprisonment during a meeting arranged with the help of an ally of the Trump campaign.

Biden says he does not consider Donald Trump supporters to be a threat to the U.S. one day after he said "MAGA Republicans" were a threat to democracy.

Amid the heatwave, wildfires pose a threat to transmission lines in the state.

New Mexico plans to build a new abortion clinic near the Texas border, anticipating that more abortion seekers from surrounding states where the procedure is banned will travel there for care.

GENEVA (AP) — The Swiss financial markets watchdog said Friday that Sberbank, one of Russia's largest banks, is selling its Swiss subsidiary, which had come under pressure because of international sanctions on Russian interests over the invasion of Ukraine.

Senate Majority PAC is attacking Republican Chuck Morse in one of the nation's top battlegrounds, where a GOP group just announced plans to spend $23 million.

A Cal Fire spokeswoman said several people have been injured in the blaze.

After nearly two months of work, an animal rescue agency said it removed hundreds of dogs from a research facility that was under federal investigation.

The Mill Fire in Siskayou County expanded Friday afternoon amid a heat wave. Injuries were reported.

Stocks gave up an early rally and ended lower on Wall Street, marking their third losing week in a row.

Gotabaya Rajapaksa is back in the country just weeks after anti-government protests drove him from office.

The former attorney general, who once had a reputation as a Trump yes man, believes the search of his home was justified and voiced skepticism of Trump's defenses.

The two men arrested in connection with the killing of a North Carolina sheriff's deputy are illegal immigrants from Mexico, federal officials confirmed Friday.

The VA submitted an interim final rule that would enable it to provide abortions when the life or health of a veteran or beneficiary is in peril, or in cases of rape or incest.

Business owners say they must incur extra costs or close altogether.

Russia won’t immediately resume exports of natural gas to Europe through its Nord Stream 1 pipeline, worsening a shortage that threatens to tip the continent into an energy crisis this winter.

Transgender participants and people of color were more likely to say that a caregiver tried to change or repress their LGBTQ identity.

A Border Patrol and local Texas law enforcement search for other potential victims remained ongoing as of Friday.

NASA's space capsule, called Artemis I, will travel for roughly 40 days -- reaching as close as 60 miles from the moon.

"This is a very treatable cancer. 80% of people survive, so I feel very lucky," she wrote on Instagram.

After a summer plagued with grief, anxiety and anger, Uvalde can escape, if only for a night, to celebrate its high school's first home football game of the season.

Federal health officials increase count of those sickened; many reported eating burgers or salads from Wendy's.

Liz Truss and Rishi Sunak must wait until Monday to find out which of them will be crowned leader.

President Biden was slammed by the veterans' group Concerned Veterans for America for using Marines "as props" in his speech Thursday night, warning it "erodes trust" in the military.

New York City is suing Starbucks over its firing of a unionizing barista.

Memphis Police are searching for schoolteacher Eliza ‘Liza’ Fletcher who they say was abducted while she was out on a jog Friday morning.

A pair of studies suggest that a diet high in ultra-processed food raises one's risk of colorectal cancer and mortality overall. They're not the first to find that correlation.

On stage in Liverpool on Thursday night, Dave Chappelle delivered a stinging assessment of the Oscars slap heard ‘round the world.

A vehicle carrying the officers hit a road mine and they were then shot dead, police said.

President Biden on Thursday touted the importance of "the rule of law" even as the southern border is still facing down a raging migrant crisis under his watch.

Dozens of ancient artifacts investigators believe were looted have been seized from the New York Metropolitan Museum of Art, according to the Manhattan District Attorney’s Office.

New rules for foreigners, including reporting romantic ties with Palestinians, draw criticism.

The leading super PAC that backs Senate Republicans says it will spend $23 million to buy TV time in battleground New Hampshire, as it targets Democratic Sen. Maggie Hassan

Individuals should not consume 4-oz. packages of St. James Smokehouse’s Scotch Reserve Scottish Smoked Salmon sold between February and June 2022.

President Joe Biden is asking Congress to provide more than $47 billion in emergency dollars that would go toward the war in Ukraine, the response to the COVID-19 pandemic, the ongoing monkeypox outbreak and help for recent natural disasters in Kentucky and other states.

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.

City data shows monkeypox cases are declining, a sign that the outbreak is starting to ease.

New COVID-19 boosters targeting today’s most common omicron strains should begin arriving within days.

The new shots are rolling out to pharmacies and other vaccination sites around the country.

The federal budget for buying and distributing COVID-19 vaccines will run out "as early as January."

Reading scores saw their largest decrease in 30 years, while math scores had their first decrease in the test's history.