Thousands protest Trump in Pittsburgh, midterm early voter turnout surges in key states, Kanye West ‘distancing himself from politics’
Good morning, I’m Tim Walker with today’s headlines. If you’d like to receive this briefing by email, sign up here.
Co-conspirator? Jacob Wohl, 20, a conservative hedge funder and prominent Trump fan, has also been accused of involvement in the bungled smear plot.
Death penalty. Federal prosecutors are seeking the death penalty for Robert Bowers, the alleged gunman in the Pittsburgh shooting.
Birthright citizenship. Trump has suggested he will move to end the constitutional right to birthright citizenship, falsely claiming the US is the only country to endow such a right.
Mass trans. Activists in Massachusetts are campaigning against a ballot question that could revoke a state law protecting people from transgender discrimination.
Nation’s first. Idaho Democrat Paulette Jordan is hoping to beat the odds and become America’s first indigenous governor.
Common sense. On Twitter on Tuesday, West said he supports prison reform, common-sense gun laws and compassion for people seeking asylum.
The FBI is investigating the apparent murder of the Boston gangster Whitey Bulger, who has been found dead in prison aged 89.
The Trump administration has unveiled a UN-backed peace plan to end the war in Yemen, with the Saudi-led coalition and Houthi rebels expected to meet for talks in Sweden following a ceasefire.
The state of Utah is offering its public employees $500 and a round trip to Mexico to buy reasonably priced prescription drugs, so as to sidestep the soaring costs of medicine in the US.
The People’s Bookstore, the last bookshop in Hong Kong to sell titles banned by the Communist party in mainland China, has closed.
According to the researchers’ estimates, 20,000 times less land is required for their factories than is needed to produce the same amount of food by growing soya. Cultivating all the protein the world now eats with their technique would require an area smaller than Ohio.
Continue reading...
No comments: