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Voter ID bills have the backing of both Mass. GOP gubernatorial candidates
Identifying all voters at the ballot box with photo ID is a commonsense way to restore faith in the integrity of our electoral system, according to both of the leading GOP candidates for governor.
The Joint Committee on Election Laws heard a pair of bills Tuesday by State Sen. Peter Durant and state Rep. Donald Berthiaume, Jr., each of which ...Read more

Shootings of Minnesota lawmakers lead to calls for metal detectors in Capitol building
The targeted shootings of two Minnesota lawmakers have sparked discussion about whether more security is necessary to ensure safety in the relatively open State Capitol building, one of the few in the country that does not use metal detectors or X-rays.
Rep. Melissa Hortman and her husband Mark Hortman were killed and Sen. John Hoffman and his ...Read more

Seattle asks court to end 13 years of federal oversight of police
The city of Seattle filed motions in U.S. District Court on Tuesday asking for the end of more than 13 years of federal oversight of the Seattle Police Department.
The Seattle Police Department "has achieved and sustained compliance with all requirements of the consent decree," the city wrote in motions filed with U.S. District Judge James ...Read more
Washington state drought deepens and the summer forecast offers no respite
There’s more to these pleasant, sunny days in Seattle than meets the eye.
Yes, this is summer and it’s supposed to be hot and dry. But this year we’re much drier than normal and, fresh off major droughts in 2024 and 2023, the effects of these lingering dry spells is compounding.
You’re not in danger of losing food, water or electricity...Read more

Should dementia and other patients be able to choose death?
My grandfather would wipe down the walls of our kitchen — a flashback to his busboy days in New York after arriving from Italy in 1920 — then suddenly rocket from past to present. He’d stare in horror at the rag in his hands, then at us. His face would collapse. He’d cry.
Alzheimer’s is a brain disorder known to slowly destroy memory,...Read more

Supreme Court OKs Trump's mass layoffs of federal employees across more than a dozen agencies
The Supreme Court cleared the way Tuesday for the Trump administration to lay off tens of thousands of federal employees and downsize their agencies without seeking the approval of Congress.
In an 8-1 vote, the justices lifted an order from a federal judge in San Francisco who blocked mass layoffs at more than 20 departments and agencies.
The ...Read more

No alerts heard in deadly Texas flash flood as 161 still missing
In the early hours of July 4, the only sound many of the vacationers along the banks of the Guadalupe River would have heard was pounding rain and thunder. They didn’t get any official warning of the rapidly rising waters that ultimately proved deadly to dozens of people swept away in central Texas flash floods.
Investigators sorting through ...Read more

Trump says he's weighing a federal takeover of Washington, DC
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump said his administration is weighing whether to take control of the city of Washington, D.C., to help combat crime, in a move that would represent a dramatic upheaval to the capital’s half-century of home rule.
“We could run D.C. I mean, we’re looking at D.C.,” Trump said during a Cabinet meeting ...Read more

Lawmakers applaud resumption of US military aid to Ukraine
Defense-minded lawmakers from both parties on Tuesday welcomed the news that the U.S. is resuming the delivery of military aid to Ukraine, following a pause that dismayed Kyiv and its Hill advocates alike.
The reactions came a day after President Donald Trump announced at the White House that the United States would send more “defensive ...Read more

What we know about Prairieland, the Texas ICE detention center where officers were ambushed on July 4
Tensions over the federal government’s immigration agenda erupted into violence 25 miles from downtown Fort Worth, Texas, last week.
A group of 10 to 12 people ambushed corrections and police officers outside the Prairieland Detention Center in Alvarado, Texas, on July 4, creating a distraction with fireworks and graffiti before firing upon ...Read more

Trump says Powell should 'resign immediately' if he misled Congress
President Donald Trump said Jerome Powell should “resign immediately” if allegations from an administration official that the Federal Reserve chair misled lawmakers prove true, while deepening his personal attacks against the head of the central bank over interest rate policy.
Trump, speaking in a Cabinet meeting Tuesday, called Powell “...Read more

Couple pleads guilty to conspiring to commit voter registration fraud in Minnesota
A couple charged in a conspiracy to commit election fraud has pleaded guilty to filling out hundreds of voter applications with fictitious identities that were submitted to county election offices in Minnesota.
Ronnie Williams, 58, of Nevada and formerly of Minnesota, was convicted Tuesday of conspiracy to engage in voter registration fraud in ...Read more

Trump lashes out at reporter for asking about Epstein 'client list'
President Donald Trump angrily tried to shut down a reporter who inquired about disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein, who died by suicide in Manhattan’s Metropolitan Correctional Center while awaiting trial on sex trafficking charges in 2019.
The president’s reaction on Tuesday did little to quell the curiosity of critics who continue to ...Read more

Michelin-starred sushi, $2,500-a-seat dinners: Vice President Vance wraps up San Diego visit
Vice President JD Vance spent the holiday weekend in San Diego, drawing protesters outside a high-end sushi restaurant Sunday evening a day after he was honored at a $2,500-a-seat dinner hosted by a conservative think tank.
According to The New York Times, Vance was also set to attend a fundraising roundtable in the San Diego area on Monday, ...Read more

Giant bugs, heat and a hospitalization: Inside Alligator Alcatraz's first days
The calls from Alligator Alcatraz’s first detainees brought distressing news: Toilets that didn’t flush. Temperatures that went from freezing to sweltering. A hospitalization. Giant bugs. And little or no access to showers or toothbrushes, much less confidential calls with attorneys.
The stories, relayed to the Miami Herald by the wives of ...Read more
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Rubio imposter used AI, Signal to contact foreign officials
WASHINGTON — Someone pretending to be Secretary of State Marco Rubio used AI-generated voice technology and a fake Signal account to contact foreign officials and at least one member of Congress, the latest case of impostors mimicking senior U.S. officials.
A State Department cable ...Read more

Analysis: Trump slams Putin, touts self-made tariff deals and muses on gold leaf
WASHINGTON — The White House has been in spike-the-football mode since President Donald Trump signed his sweeping tax and domestic policy agenda into law. But the jubilation was interrupted Tuesday as the president and his Cabinet members faced questions on the administration’s trade policy and response to deadly Texas floods.
The ...Read more

UN agencies in dire straits amid threatened US funding cuts
If Congress this month approves the White House’s request to cancel $1 billion in federal funding for the United Nations system, experts say it will further exacerbate an already crisis-level financial shortfall for the global intergovernmental organization that the U.S. worked over decades to sustain.
The Trump administration included $1 ...Read more

Supreme Court lets Trump proceed with broad workforce cuts
The U.S. Supreme Court let President Donald Trump move ahead with plans to dramatically reduce the size of the federal government, lifting a court order that had blocked 19 federal departments and agencies from slashing their workforces.
Granting a Trump request over one dissent, the justices on Tuesday cleared the administration to implement ...Read more

Trump vows no tariff extension, hardens threats on copper, drugs
President Donald Trump vowed to push forward with his aggressive tariff regime in the coming days, stressing he would not offer additional extensions on country-specific levies set to now hit in early August while indicating he could announce substantial new rates on imports of copper and pharmaceuticals.
The posturing on social media and at a...Read more
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