Author: David Zimmermann

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is warning American travelers to take “enhanced precautions” when traveling to foreign countries experiencing a chikungunya virus outbreak. The mosquito-borne illness is currently prevalent in China, specifically in Foshan, located in the southern Guangdong Province. Other cases have been reported in parts of Central and South America, Africa, Asia,…

Texas is permitted to enforce its law dismissing mail-in ballots without a voter’s identification number, a federal appeals court ruled on Monday. The three-judge panel, led by U.S. Circuit Judge James Ho for the Fifth Circuit, said it had “no difficulty” concluding that Texas’s identification requirement was valid and consistent with federal law. A provision…

President Donald Trump said on Tuesday he would not select Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent as the next chairman of the Federal Reserve, stressing Bessent “wants to stay” at the Treasury Department. “Well, I love Scott, but he wants to stay where he is,” Trump said on CNBC’s Squawk Box Tuesday morning. “I asked him just…

A federal judge on Monday decided to halt an Arkansas law that mandated the display of the Ten Commandments in public school classrooms, barring four of the state’s largest school districts from following the new law, which took effect Tuesday. U.S. District Judge Timothy Brooks of the Western District of Arkansas issued the preliminary injunction…

The recall effort directed toward Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass fizzled out on Monday, when a recall measure needed to qualify for the ballot. Calls for Bass’s recall mounted following her lackluster response to the Los Angeles wildfires in January. The Democratic mayor faced criticism partly for her office’s budget cuts to the Los Angeles…

Tesla decided on Monday to give CEO Elon Musk roughly $30 billion in restricted stock after the chief executive threatened to leave the electric vehicle maker if he did not receive more shares. The company revealed the news in a regulatory filing, saying Musk must first pay Tesla $23.34 per share of restricted stock as…

The U.S. approval rating of Israel’s war in Gaza continues to decrease the longer the conflict persists, July polling data shows. Sixty percent of Americans disapprove of the Israel-Hamas war, compared to 32% of respondents who approve, according to a Gallup poll released Tuesday. The approval rating sets a record low since the pollster started…

Authorities identified the shooter suspected of killing four people and himself in the deadly midtown Manhattan shooting on Monday evening as Shane Tamura, a 27-year-old male from Las Vegas. Tamura, who died from a self-inflicted gunshot wound to the chest, was found on the 33rd floor of a 634-foot building at 345 Park Ave. in…

The Department of Justice filed a misconduct complaint against U.S. District Chief Judge James Boasberg on Monday, alleging he made “improper public comments” about the Trump administration. “These comments have undermined the integrity of the judiciary, and we will not stand for that,” Attorney General Pam Bondi said in announcing the complaint. The DOJ complaint…

Four people, including an off-duty police officer, were fatally shot and one person was injured after a lone shooter opened fire in a midtown Manhattan skyscraper Monday evening, according to police. Surveillance footage showed the gunman, armed with a rifle, walking into a skyscraper that houses the headquarters for Blackstone and the NFL. The suspect, identified as Shane Tamura, a…