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ALBANY, New York — President Donald Trump’s preferred candidate to succeed Rep. Elise Stefanik cruised to victory in his Republican primary Tuesday evening. Anthony Constantino, the CEO of custom sticker company Sticker Mule, defeated Assemblymember Robert Smullen, a retired Marine colonel, for the nomination in a deep red upstate New York House district. Trump, along with MAGA figures Roger Stone and former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani, backed Constantino’s bid, casting aside Smullen’s endorsement from the New York Republican Committee. Constantino’s victory underscores the power of Trump’s endorsement in a district he has won during each of his three…
Kenyan Health Minister Aden Duale said on Tuesday he has halted construction of a U.S.-backed Ebola treatment center at the Laikipia Air Base. Kenya’s High Court held Duale in contempt on Monday for disobeying its orders in May and early June to stop construction on the facility. “The Court cannot permit its orders to be rendered hollow,” Kenyan High Court Justice Patricia Nyaundi Mande said on Monday as she ordered Duale to appear the following day. Duale duly stood before the court on Tuesday and said he ordered an immediate halt to construction, although he still defended the Ebola center…
The Secret Truth About Kevin Warsh’s Fed The dirtiest little secret inside the gilded menagerie of monetary policy is that Kevin Warsh’s supposedly radical new approach to central bank communications is far more conventional and not as new as it seems. The first statement issued by the Federal Open Market Committee under Warsh’s chairmanship was far terser than those typically put out by the committee under his predecessors, from Ben Bernanke through Janet Yellen to Jerome Powell. His press conference was an entertaining spectacle of Fed reporters repeatedly trying to extract forward guidance from a chairman who had just announced…
Alberto Carvalho, the superintendent of the Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD), has resigned following a four-month federal investigation. The LAUSD placed Carvalho on paid leave earlier this year following an FBI raid at his home. Since then, few details have been released to the public regarding the alleged charges being scrutinized. He has repeatedly denied all wrongdoing. “It’s not clear whether Carvalho’s departure comes with a negotiated settlement. His contract sets a minimum of a 12-month payout were the district to terminate his employment without cause,” reported the Los Angeles Times on Monday. “According to law enforcement sources, the…
NEW YORK — Darializa Avila Chevalier has ousted five-term House member Rep. Adriano Espaillat, the chair of the Congressional Hispanic Caucus, in a massive victory for the Democratic Socialists of America. Her win marks another rebuke of the Democratic establishment in New York following Zohran Mamdani’s mayoral election last year, cementing the DSA as one of the city’s most potent political forces. The upset reflects a political climate in which voters have become increasingly willing to cast aside longtime incumbents in favor of outsiders promising change. Avila Chevalier focused much of her campaign on attacking Espaillat for accepting donations from…
CBC says an internal video accused members of searching for women’s personal information and contacting vulnerable victims A Canadian police chief has told officers to “change your behavior or quit” after accusing some members of using police databases and other law enforcement resources to look up women and pursue intimate relationships.The remarks were made in a seven-minute internal video sent last month by Ottawa Police Chief Eric Stubbs to all members of the force, according to CBC News, which obtained the recording.“Members are using our databases as their own way to meet women,” Stubbs says in the video, which has…
President Donald Trump on Tuesday touted a recent 60-cent fall in gas prices as traffic continues to flow in the Strait of Hormuz on the heels of the Iran war. While delivering remarks at a Mack Trucks plant in Macungie, Pennsylvania, the president highlighted the drop in gasoline prices after a surge in recent months due to the closure of the Strait, through which about one-fifth of the world’s oil travels. “The average price of gasoline nationwide is down 60 cents a gallon, just from a short while ago… We had to make this detour, we had to go to…
Monday on MS NOW’s “All In,” Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) claimed no reasonable person could vote for Todd Blanche to be Attorney General. Host Chris Hayes said, “All this is happening as Donald Trump tries to push through his former personal criminal defense attorney, Todd Blanche, currently the acting U.S. Attorney General, to become the U.S. Attorney General.” He asked, “I feel like Blanche hasn’t raised a sufficient level of alarm, and he’s just sort of hanging out there. And he’s not calendar of when he’s going to be confirmed. But do you feel that way, too, or is there…
NEW YORK — Army veteran Cait Conley has emerged victorious in the bitter Democratic primary for New York’s 17th Congressional District, setting up a general election fight between a past national security staffer for former President Joe Biden and Republican Rep. Mike Lawler. Conley, who served six tours overseas before becoming the National Security Council’s director for counterterrorism, leaned on her military service during her campaign, casting herself as a tough-as-nails political outsider who could cut through the noise and find pragmatic solutions. She will move on to the general election in a district that has been called the most…
It is the first time the chamber has passed a measure aimed at limiting President Donald Trump’s war powers The US Senate has, for the first time, passed a resolution directing President Donald Trump to withdraw American forces from hostilities involving Iran.The Senate voted 50-48 on Tuesday, with four Republicans joining Democrats in support of the measure. The resolution passed the House by a vote of 215-208 earlier this month.According to AP, the resolution is largely symbolic but reflects growing opposition to the president’s Iran policy.The vote marked the tenth attempt by Democrats to compel Trump to end US involvement…