President Trump said Saturday that he’ll be going to Alabama in a week to campaign for Sen. Luther StrangeLuther Johnson StrangeThe biggest political upsets of the decade State ‘certificate of need’ laws need to go GOP frets over nightmare scenario for Senate primaries MORE (R) in the GOP runoff election for the state’s Senate seat. “I will be in Huntsville, Alabama, on Saturday night to support Luther Strange for Senate. ‘Big Luther’ is a great guy…
The Democratic and Republican national committees are both making significant investments in cybersecurity to prevent hacking in the run-up to future elections. Campaign cybersecurity has gained greater visibility among staffers up and down the ranks of both national political committees following Russia’s interference in the 2016 presidential election, which included cyberattacks against the DNC and former Hillary ClintonHillary Diane Rodham ClintonWhite House accuses Biden of pushing ‘conspiracy theories’ with Trump election claim Biden courts younger voters…
At least 51 people were killed and dozens more injured when a suicide bomber detonated explosives at a Kurdish wedding celebration in southeastern Turkey late Saturday night. Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said Sunday that the Islamic State (ISIS) was behind the attack, and that the suicide bomber was a child between 12 and 14 years old. No entity has claimed official responsibility. The New York Times reports: Women and children were reportedly among the dead. Click Here:…
Despite calls from environmental leaders, major insurance companies, global investors, and climate groups, the G20 has failed to put a deadline on phasing out fossil fuel subsidies, yet again. German press agency DPA reported Monday that a late draft of the G20 Leaders’ Communique “did not mention plans to fulfill a promise the G20 made seven years ago to put an end to controversial fossil fuel subsidies.” That recalcitrance runs counter to wide swaths of public opinion. An open letter (pdf) in…
Though Republican lawmakers have painted this moment in Internet history as ‘doomsday,’ and rallied a last ditch-effort to block it, at midnight on Saturday the U.S. government cede control of the web’s core naming directory to a multi-stakeholder nonprofit. The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), a California-based group of international stakeholders will now control the functions of the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA), which includes the database that translates website names into…
President Barack Obama must “live up to his climate legacy,” a group of climate activists said Wednesday, as they took part in a day of action to demand that he cancel future leases for fossil fuel extraction in the Gulf of Mexico. The activists, who represented groups including 350.org Louisiana and the Louisiana Bucket Brigade, gathered outside the local headquarters of the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) in New Orleans. They said Obama should…
A federal judge on Friday issued a “first of its kind” ruling showing that President Donald Trump’s travel ban does not apply to legal permanent residents, in a partial victory against the controversial executive order. U.S. District Judge Victoria Roberts of Detroit reaffirmed that the order, temporarily blocking entry for immigrants and refugees from seven majority-Muslim countries, does not apply to permanent residents, including green card holders—who were among the many travelers caught up in…
Russian billionaire Dmitry Mazepin is reportedly interested in taking over the Haas team and promoting his son Nikita to Formula 1. Haas recently committed to Grand Prix racing’s future by signing the sport’s new Concorde Agreement but that doesn’t mean that team owner Gene Haas isn’t attentive to any potential takeover offers that may come his way, even if the team has denied that it is for sale. Read also: Perez looking at all options…
Paul Costelloe brought his studio to London Fashion Week for an intimate spring/summer 2021 presentation, featuring staff from his atelier, his family, as well as his playful designs, to the impressive setting of the Palm Court in the Waldorf Hilton. While a global pandemic may have stopped Costelloe putting on his usual catwalk showcase, coronavirus wasn’t going to slow down the American-Irish designer, who instead charmed editors and buyers throughout the day with socially-distanced timed…
Lt. Gov. Ralph Northam (D) leads Republican Ed Gillespie by 14 points in the race to be the next Virginia governor, according to a Quinnipiac University survey released Wednesday. The poll found Northam taking 53 percent over Gillespie, a former Republican National Committee chairman, at 39 percent. In the previous Quinnipiac University survey, released in September, Northam led by 10 points, 51 to 41 percent. The survey appears to be an outlier. Three polls released in October have…