Two astronauts are left behind in space as Boeing’s troubled capsule returns to Earth empty
Boeing insisted after extensive testing that Starliner was safe to bring the two home, but NASA disagreed and booked a flight with SpaceX instead. Their SpaceX ride won’t launch until the end of this month, which means they’ll be up there until February – more than eight months after blasting off on what should have been a quick trip.
Republican former VP Dick Cheney to vote for Kamala Harris but Trump dismisses him as ‘irrelevant’
Republican former congresswoman Liz Cheney, the former vice president’s daughter, has also been a vocal critic of the current Republican presidential candidate, including over the January 6, 2021 storming of the US Capitol by Trump supporters.
Jury is out: US democracy tested as Republicans who blamed Trump for January 6 failed coup line up behind him
In Trump’s telling, the mob on January 6 assembled peacefully to preserve democracy, not upend it, and the rioters were agitated but not armed. They were not insurrectionists but rather 1776-style “patriots.” And now they are being persecuted by the Justice Department, juries and judges for their political beliefs.
As Kenyan police in Haiti lament about salaries and equipment, US is planning UN peacekeeping force to fight gangs
The US is mulling a UN peacekeeping operation in Haiti as one way to secure funding and staffing for a Kenya-led mission deployed to quell gang violence in the Caribbean country, a top US diplomat said on Wednesday. Brian A. Nichols, US assistant secretary for Western Hemisphere affairs, spoke hours...
Letter says committee on foreign investments warned Nippon its US Steel bid was a national security risk
In the letter, which has not been previously reported, the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS) said the deal would damage American steel production and decrease the likelihood that US Steel would continue to aggressively seek trade remedies, the people who were familiar with the matter said, adding that the companies were given until Wednesday to respond.
Republican Liz Cheney backs Harris, describes Republican candidate Trump as a ‘danger’
Liz Cheney was in House Republican leadership at the time of the January 6 attack but broke with most of her caucus over Trump’s responsibility.
Prison looming: Trump’s plea to federal judge to intervene in hush money conviction tossed out
In a four-page ruling, Hellerstein wrote that nothing about the high court’s July 1 ruling affected his previous conclusion that hush money payments at issue in Trump’s case “were private, unofficial acts, outside the bounds of executive authority.”
US-based Climate Rights International urges banks and insurers to withhold funding for Uganda’s oil development
The report is the first of its kind to detail serious allegations against CNOOC, one of a number of partners in the project. Based on dozens of interviews, it cites forced evictions, inadequate or non-existent compensation for land and other assets, coercion and intimidation in land acquisition, loss of livelihood and sexual violence.
Presidential candidates in US skirt around medical marijuana fearing voter reprisal
Former President Donald Trump, the Republican nominee, signalled support for a Florida legalisation measure on Saturday, following earlier comments that he increasingly agrees that people shouldn’t be jailed for the drug now legal in multiple states, “whether that’s a good thing or a bad thing.”
Hispanic voters give Harris edge on healthcare, climate as Trump’s lead on economy is shrinks
Voter sympathies could shift between now and Election Day and it remains to be seen which, if any, blocs of voters will turn out in droves. Experts say predicting the Hispanic vote is particularly hard in 2024 because Hispanic voters skew younger than the rest of the electorate, so a larger share are first time voters.
