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A Georgia state court judge on Wednesday disqualified independent presidential candidate Cornel West from running for president in the state, ruling that West's electors didn't file the proper paperwork. For now at least, the decision means votes for West won't be counted in Georgia, although his name will remain on ballots because the judge said it's too late to remove it. Fulton County Superior Court Judge Thomas A. Cox ruled it was too late to order new ballots printed, with military and overseas ballots scheduled to be mailed starting Tuesday.
A U.S. Army soldier has been arrested in Hawaii on charges that he repeatedly struck a police officer with a flagpole during a mob's attack on the U.S. Capitol more than three years ago, according to court records unsealed on Wednesday. Alexander Cain Poplin was arrested on Tuesday at Schofield Barracks, an Army installation near Honolulu. Poplin, 31, of Wahiawa, Hawaii, was scheduled to make his initial appearance in federal court on Wednesday.
Argentina's Congress on Wednesday upheld President Javier Milei's veto of a bill to increase pensions which sparked clashes outside parliament.Milei's veto particularly sparked anger as it came after he decreed an increase of $102 million in the budget of the state intelligence agency -- which amounts to a 700 percent increase -- without requiring justification of expenditure. sa/fb/cb
A few of the voters who remain undecided in the 2024 election were moved by Tuesday’s debate — but it might take more than a debate to fully make up their minds.
Ghana's government on Wednesday announced a 45-percent increase in the producer price of cocoa for the 2024/2025 crop season, in a bid to curb smuggling."This is an unprecedented increase of 129.36 percent," Acheampong said as he announced the increase Wednesday.
Brazil on Wednesday asked the European Union not to implement regulations in its deforestation law at the end of the year as scheduled and asked for it to be revised to avoid hurting Brazilian exports. In a letter to the European Commission seen by Reuters, the Brazilian government said the law banning the import of products linked to the destruction of the world's forests could affect almost one third of Brazil's exports to the EU. The law passed in 2022 by the European Parliament was adopted in June last year, allowing 18 months for companies to adapt.
WASHINGTON — Donald Trump took aim at the Affordable Care Act on Tuesday in his presidential debate with Kamala Harris, reviving a 15-year-old partisan fight over a law that has swung from a liability to a political asset for Democrats.
Three Libertarian candidates running for Congress in Iowa will not be named on the ballot this November, the state Supreme Court said Wednesday, an outcome that could benefit Republicans in two competitive districts. The high court offered a quick and final decision following Tuesday’s oral arguments, already more than a week after the deadline for state officials to certify the names of nominees before ballots can be printed. Iowans affiliated with the Republican Party filed challenges against the three candidates, alleging that the Libertarian Party of Iowa failed to follow state law on the procedure for nominating their candidates.
A group of private astronauts is set to carry out the first private spacewalk in orbit on Thursday from a SpaceX capsule, testing a new line of spacesuits. A billionaire entrepreneur, a retired military fighter pilot and two SpaceX employees have been orbiting Earth aboard SpaceX's Crew Dragon since their pre-dawn launch from Florida on Tuesday for the Polaris Dawn mission, the company's latest and riskiest bid to push the boundaries of commercial spaceflight. The spacewalk is slated to begin at 2:23 a.m. ET (0623 GMT) while the crew is 700 km (435 miles) in altitude, with two astronauts venturing outside Crew Dragon while the other two remain inside.
A Minnesota medical examiner who prosecutors say has a history of delivering false or misleading reports may have mishandled at least seven murder cases in which his testimony helped send people to prison, attorneys announced Wednesday. The announcement followed a sprawling review of cases, some dating back decades, handled by Dr. Michael McGee, a former Ramsey County medical examiner who prosecutors say performed autopsies on cases from 1985 to 2019. McGee's work was called “unreliable, misleading and inaccurate” by a federal judge, setting off a wide-ranging inquiry into a potential “chain of injustices,” prosecutors said.
Hurricane Francine barreled into Louisiana Wednesday, forecasters said, warning of life-threatening flooding and storm surge as residents of the southern US state rushed to board up businesses and stockpile emergency supplies.Louisiana Governor Jeff Landry has declared a state of emergency, and on Tuesday requested a federal emergency declaration from President Joe Biden, which he quickly approved.
A wildfire in the hills near Los Angeles exploded overnight, torching dozens of homes as its footprint swelled 1,000 percent by Wednesday.To the southeast of Los Angeles, the Airport Fire was continuing to grow Wednesday, racing through vegetation and damaging a number of homes.
(Reuters) -The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has allowed the expanded use of Johnson & Johnson's drug, Tremfya, to treat adults with a type of chronic inflammatory bowel disease, the company said on Wednesday. The approval paves the way for another treatment option for patients with ulcerative colitis, which causes inflammation and ulcers in the colon and rectum. Drugmakers such as AbbVie, Eli Lilly and J&J are hustling for a share in an already-crowded, multi-billion market for treatments for inflammatory bowel diseases.
Warm water in the Gulf of Mexico helped quickly strengthen Hurricane Francine, creating danger for Louisiana residents rushing to buy supplies and secure their homes ahead of the storm's landfall Wednesday. Warm ocean water is essential for forming and strengthening hurricanes. Mid-September is typically the peak of hurricane season and Francine moved through a part of the ocean that held an exceptional amount of energy.
Parts of Mississippi, Alabama and the Florida Panhandle were also at risk of flooding.
A pilot on Alaska Airlines Flight 1282 is opening up for the first time about the terrifying moments when a door panel blew out of the Boeing 737 Max 9 aircraft in mid-flight in January.
North Korea fired a ballistic missile toward the sea on Thursday, South Korea’s military said, days after North Korean leader Kim Jong Un vowed to put his nuclear force fully ready for battle with its rivals.
A US dive team has discovered the wreck of a French steamship, Le Lyonnais, that sank in the Atlantic Ocean in 1856 after a "hit-and-run" collision with an American sailing vessel, claiming 114 lives.Jennifer Sellitti of Atlantic Wreck Salvage, a New Jersey-based company, said a team on the dive boat D/V Tenacious discovered the wreckage of Le Lyonnais last month after a two-decade search.
Breathing wildfire smoke can cut years off people’s lives. As fires become more frequent in a warming world, smoke is leading to a public health crisis, harming people far from the flames.
A former CIA agent who pleaded guilty in May to spying for China was sentenced to 10 years in prison on Wednesday, the Justice Department said.Two years later, Ma applied for a job as a contract linguist with the FBI in Hawaii, the Justice Department said.