Law enforcement officials said Sunday afternoon that rescue efforts for a 6-year-old girl who was swept away in Pennsylvania’s Chester Creek on Saturday night have been abandoned. The effort that is ongoing, officials said, is now considered a recovery. “This is an extremely sad day for the city of Chester,” said Chester Mayor Stefan Roots… Continue reading Rescue effort ended after child swept away by Pennsylvania creek
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Mike Pence says he wasn’t aware of ‘any broad-based effort’ by Trump to declassify docs
Former Vice President Mike Pence, a Republican presidential candidate, said Sunday he did not know of any “broad-based effort” by former President Donald Trump to declassify documents before he left the White House. “There is a process that the White House goes through to declassify materials, I’m aware of that occurring on several cases over… Continue reading Mike Pence says he wasn’t aware of ‘any broad-based effort’ by Trump to declassify docs
Inside the right’s effort to build a voter fraud hunting tool
After years of claiming that American elections are rife with fraud, conservative election activists are preparing a new tool to take matters into their own hands. Activists are currently testing a computer program called EagleAI NETwork, a database loaded with voter rolls and other records that promises to quickly churn through the data and find… Continue reading Inside the right’s effort to build a voter fraud hunting tool
Let the Bodies Pile review – awkward effort to hold government to account over Covid | Edinburgh festival 2023
Hyde, Manchester, in the 1990s. Frank and Georgie’s 78-year-old mum has just died while in the charge of local GP Harold Shipman. Was Frank, her live-in carer, partly to blame for surrendering her to the care of “Dr Death”? Fast-forward more than 20 years, and we find Frank mute and motionless in a Hyde hospice,… Continue reading Let the Bodies Pile review – awkward effort to hold government to account over Covid | Edinburgh festival 2023
Team Trump and A Nationwide Effort To Breach Voting Machines
As Donald Trump braces for yet another criminal indictment, this time in Fulton County, Georgia, even more detail has emerged about efforts by his team and allies to access sensitive voting machine software to prop up the former president’s lies about election fraud. Fulton County prosecutors have emails and text messages showing Trump’s team was… Continue reading Team Trump and A Nationwide Effort To Breach Voting Machines
Florida appears to reverse effort to bar AP Psychology’s LGBTQ content
Florida and the College Board appear to have come to a resolution over the inclusion of LGBTQ topics in the state’s Advanced Placement Psychology classes. The resolve came a day after the education nonprofit said the state “effectively banned” the course due to its content on sexual orientation and gender identity. In a letter shared… Continue reading Florida appears to reverse effort to bar AP Psychology’s LGBTQ content
Inside Ron DeSantis’ awkward comeback effort
ROCHESTER, N.H. — For $1, New Hampshire voters were invited to drink beer with Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis on Saturday in Concord. But barely more than two dozen people showed up at the New Hampshire Home Builders Association, which slashed the ticket price for the general public from $50 late in the week in order… Continue reading Inside Ron DeSantis’ awkward comeback effort