US News from WN Network

Book bans are accelerating across the country amid right-wing pressure campaign 2024-04-17
CNN

Editor’s Note: A version of this article first appeared in the “Reliable Sources” newsletter. Sign up for the daily digest chronicling the evolving media landscape here. America’s right-wing forces would have you believe that they are the courageous entities standing up for free speech. But, as they...

photo: AP / Ted Shaffrey

Supreme Court to Decide on Criminalizing Outdoor Sleeping 2024-04-17
Scheerpost

Tenting in Los Angeles Skid Row. Russ Allison Loar, CC BY-SA 4.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0, via Wikimedia Commons By Clare Pastore / The Conversation On April 22, 2024, the Supreme Court will hear a case that could radically change how cities respond to the growing problem of...

photo: Creative Commons / OldYorkGuy

Senate set for showdown over Mayorkas impeachment articles 2024-04-17
CNN

The Senate is set for a showdown over the articles of impeachment against Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas as Democrats are expected to move quickly to dismiss the articles, while Republicans insist there must be a full trial. The House transmitted the articles of impeachment to the...

photo: Public Domain / Benjamin Applebaum

Iraq’s dangerous balancing act between Iran and the US 2024-04-17
Al Jazeera

Four days ago, Iraq’s airspace had hundreds of projectiles fired from Iran flying through it towards Israel, caught in the crossfire of what many fear could be the opening salvoes of a regional war dragging in the United States. On Monday, Iraq’s Prime Minister Mohammed Shia al-Sudani was in...

photo: AP / Alex Brandon

Biden to call for a tripling of tariffs on Chinese steel as he makes economic ... 2024-04-17
CNN

President Joe Biden will call on his administration to ratchet up pressure on the Chinese steel industry as he brings his economic competition pitch to Pittsburgh, the heart of the American steel industry, on Wednesday, part of a three-day campaign trail swing through battleground Pennsylvania. The...

photo: AP / Andy Wong

Faulty Assurances: The Judicial Torture of Assange Continues 2024-04-17
Dissident Voice

Only this month, the near comatose US President, Joe Biden, made a casual, castaway remark that his administration was “considering” the request by Australia that the case against Julian Assange be concluded. The WikiLeaks founder has already spent five gruelling years in London’s Belmarsh prison,...

photo: AP / David Cliff

Croatia votes in a parliamentary election that’s a showdown between its president and prime minister 2024-04-17
Wtop

ZAGREB, Croatia (AP) — Croatia is voting Wednesday in a parliamentary election after a campaign centered on a bitter rivalry between the president and prime minister that has sparked a political crisis in the small European Union and NATO member. The ballot pits the ruling conservative Croatian...

photo: AP / Darko Bandic

UN envoy lashes out at Libya’s feuding parties and their foreign backers, then says he’s resigned 2024-04-17
Wtop

UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The U.N. envoy for Libya, Abdoulaye Bathily, lashed out at the country’s feuding parties and their foreign backers at a U.N. Security Council meeting Tuesday and then confirmed he had submitted his resignation. The former Senegalese minister and U.N. diplomat, who has held the...

photo: UN / Rick Bajornas

Trump to meet with Polish president Duda as NATO leaders call for additional support for Ukraine 2024-04-17
Wtop

NEW YORK (AP) — Presumptive Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump is scheduled to meet with Polish President Andrzej Duda on Wednesday in New York. The planned dinner meeting, confirmed by a person familiar with the matter, comes as European leaders prepare for the possibility that Trump...

photo: White House / Tia Dufour

Trump trial: Why can’t Americans see or hear what is going on inside the courtroom? 2024-04-16
The Daily Democrat

By David Bauder, Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — It’s a moment in history — the first U.S. president facing criminal charges in an American courtroom. Yet only a handful of observers are able to see or even hear what is going on. Instead, most of the nation is getting news of former President...

photo: AP / Justin Lane