Michigan and Wisconsin, two key battleground states, declined to remove former independent candidate Robert F. Kennedy’s name from their general election ballots this November despite his requests and withdrawal from the race. Kennedy announced last Friday that he was ending his presidential campaign and would endorse former President Trump’s candidacy. He said he would seek to remove his name from the ballots in states that could theoretically determine the outcome of the election but would...

Aug 28 (Reuters) - Shares of Nvidia (NVDA.O) and other technology heavyweights fell late on Wednesday, a discouraging sign for investors betting that a strong forecast from the dominant seller of AI chips would fuel fresh gains in Wall Street's most valuable companies. Nvidia dropped 6% and lost over $180 billion in stock market value following its earnings report , this week's centerpiece event on Wall Street, while a handful of other AI-related companies shed around $100 billion in combined...

Republican vice presidential nominee JD Vance hasblamed Vice President Kamala Harris for the deaths of 13 U.S. service personnel during the chaotic Afghanistan withdrawal in August 2021. Vance's remarks came in response to recent comments from Harris's campaign criticizing former President Donald Trump for attending a wreath-laying ceremony at Arlington National Cemetery to honor the fallen soldiers. Sen. JD Vance listens during a news conference on the southern border at the U.S. Capitol on...

A jury on Wednesday found a former Las Vegas-area Democratic politician charged with murder in the slaying of an investigative journalist who had written critical stories about him guilty. Jurors began deliberating Monday to determine if they agreed with prosecutors' claims that Robert Telles, 47, stabbed veteran investigative journalist Jeff German to death in September 2022, just months after German wrote stories critical of Telles and his workplace conduct, including allegations...

Israel has agreed to a temporary pause of some military operations in the Gaza Strip to enable a polio vaccination campaign there, a senior State Department official said. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s office said in a statement that Israel had not agreed to “pauses in the fighting in order to administer polio vaccines,” but rather “the allocation of certain places in the Gaza Strip” for unstated purposes, an arrangement it said had been approved by the security...

by Dr. Naomi Wolf, Lew Rockwell: Last July, as you recall, I was dying. I was in a soulless corporate hospital, trying and failing to recover from emergency surgery. Some of my vital organs had become ‘septic’; raging with infection. I was fading. I had been denied food and water for five days; I had […]

by Fraser Sampson, Activist Post: In surveillance perspective is everything. Your viewpoint affects what you will see and therefore what you will miss. And we are missing a lot. Whether you are contemplating a policy, practice or product, you will get a better overall view of the risks and issues by shifting between overlapping perspectives. […]