Feb. 18—Three Southcentral Alaska utilities that own the Eklutna Hydroelectric Project rejected the Anchorage Assembly’s recent call for a two-year halt to their proposed program to restore water flow and fish to the long-dammed Eklutna River. The federal government sold the Eklutna Hydroelectric Project to the utilities under the terms of the 1991 agreement, which […]
Feb. 17—ROCHESTER — The tribal nations that rejected Rochester Public Schools’ exemption request that would have allowed Dakota Middle School to keep its bison mascot provided little context for doing so. The school recently announced it would have to change its mascot under new state legislation that prohibits schools from using American Indian imagery for […]
JERUSALEM (Reuters) – Top ministers in Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu‘s government rejected Palestinian statehood on Thursday following a Washington Post report that Israel’s main ally the United States was advancing plans to establish a Palestinian state. “We will in no way agree to this plan, which says Palestinians deserve a prize for the terrible massacre […]
WASHINGTON — Special counsel Jack Smith on Wednesday asked the Supreme Court to reject an emergency application filed by Donald Trump that sought to further delay the former president’s criminal trial arising from efforts to overturn the 2020 election. Smith filed his response to Trump’s request six days ahead of the deadline imposed by the […]
Ukraine is ready to consider the possibility of rejecting agrarian subsidies of the EU in exchange for mitigation of the requirements of the EU green deal during the EU accession talks. Source: an anonymous Ukrainian top official cited by Reuters, as reported by European Pravda Details: The integration of a huge Ukrainian agricultural sector into […]
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Wisconsin Republicans urged the state Supreme Court on Thursday to ignore a report from redistricting consultants that determined GOP-proposed legislative maps were unconstitutional partisan gerrymanders. While Republicans argue that the consultants’ findings are unsound, Democrats asked the court on Thursday to adopt one of their maps that the consultants found were […]
The US Supreme Court seems poised to reject attempts to kick former president Donald Trump off the 2024 ballot. A definitive ruling for Trump, the leading Republican candidate for president, would largely end efforts in Colorado, Maine and elsewhere to prevent his name from appearing on the ballot. Conservative and liberal justices alike questioned during […]
Conservative Latinos at The LIBRE Initiative, a Hispanic center-right organization, are urging Democrats and Republicans to stay clear of the progressive and hard-right factions of their respective political parties in order to gain ground with Latino voters in battleground states. “We just want to bring attention for each party not to go to the extremes, […]
The House failed to pass a $17.6 billion bill to provide aid to Israel on Tuesday. 14 House Republicans joined with Democrats to vote against it, citing the cost. Speaker Mike Johnson had hoped to use the bill to undermine the bipartisan border bill. The House of Representatives on Tuesday failed to pass a bill […]
The former subpostmaster who has led the campaign for justice in the UK’s Post Office Horizon scandal said he will reject an offer of compensation from the UK government. Alan Bates, whose two-decade fight inspired the ITV series Mr Bates vs The Post Office, told The Daily Telegraph the offer was “offensive” and “cruel”. The […]
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Democratic presidential candidate U.S. Rep. Dean Phillips sued too late after being left off of Wisconsin’s primary ballot and the state Supreme Court should reject his lawsuit, the state elections commission and a special bipartisan panel said Wednesday. Phillips last week asked the Wisconsin Supreme Court to order that his name […]
Chancellor Olaf Scholz reminded Germans of their Nazi past on Wednesday as he called on citizens to reject the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) which is second in most national polls. Hundreds of thousands of people have joined demonstrations across Germany against the AfD after a report that two senior party members had discussed plans […]