Author: Leslie Stewart

Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson signed Saturday’s executive order aimed at throttling the strength of federal law enforcement officials and National Guard forces whom President Donald Trump said he threatened his deployment into Illinois.”We find ourselves in a position where we have to take immediate and dramatic actions to protect people from federal overreach,” Democrat Johnson said at a news conference.One of the main points of the order was to instruct the city’s legal department to use “all legal mechanisms” to try and stop Trump’s potential plans, Johnson said.Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson said the city will use “all legal mechanisms” to…

Attorney General Pam Bondy accused the Justice Department of Fire on Friday of overthrowing members of National Security Guard deployed in Washington, D.C., as part of President Donald Trump’s efforts to mitigate crime in the city, Justice Department officials confirmed.According to a memo submitted by Bondi, its truthfulness was confirmed by the DOJ, with employee Elizabeth Baxter working as a paralegal expert in the department’s environmental and natural resources sector.The New York Post first reported Baxter’s end.”On the basis of your inappropriate conduct against a National Guard service member, your employment with the Department of Justice will be terminated here…

Through the monitor, two men watch the bombs fall through the air towards a building at the edge of town. “Look at how they run,” says one of the men.The drone camera follows a group of people below as they drive down the road before the mortar explodes. These destruction scenes, carried out and filmed by drones, defined the war in Ukraine. But the drone is thousands of miles away in Colombia, and is the latest mutation in the country’s deadly and long-standing conflict and the conflict between the militant groups. It is also an example of the increased use…

Inflation rates rose in July, indicating that President Donald Trump’s tariffs were at work through the US economy, according to the Federal Reserve Preferential Inflation Measures.A Commerce Department report on Friday showed that core inflation, excluding food and energy costs, will be carried out at a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 2.9%. Although it was in line with the Dow Jones consensus forecast, it rose 0.1 percentage points from the June level, the highest annual rate since February.Each month, the Core PCE index increased by 0.3%, which also increased in line with expectations. The index of all items showed an…

The vendor will provide customer changes at a food stall at the Farmers Market in Hanau, Germany on Saturday, August 9, 2025.Alex Klaus | Bloomberg | Getty ImagesThe rise in unemployment and inflation overturn the outlook for Europe’s biggest economy. This adds to the wider EU bloc due to the full impact of newly implemented US tariffs.Germany’s inflation rate rose 2.1% more than expected in August, with preliminary data showing expectations of 2% of analysts voted by Reuters on Friday. Inflation, comparably harmonious across the Eurozone, rose in July by a cooler than expected 1.8%.Germany’s core inflation, which excludes food…

The Danish drug maker logo logo logo is a manufacturer of blockbuster diabetes and weight loss treatments and can be seen outside Theri Building as it presents its annual report on February 5, 2025 at Bagsvaerd’s Novo Nordisk in Denmark’s Bagsvaerd. Mads Klaus Rasmussen | AFP | Getty ImagesDenmark on Friday reduced its annual growth forecast from 3% to 1.4% due to weak expectations for drug giant Novonordisk.Denmark has recorded high annual growth rates in recent years, and its economy has expanded by 3.7% last year after receiving a major boost from drug exports.Danish Pharma giant Novo Nordisk makes the…

Announcement: A Minneapolis couple who lives in the block from a Catholic school and church where two children were killed and 18 others were injured, recalls the moments after they heard the shooting from their homes. Cara and Pedro Maldonado were in their kitchen when they heard the shot and after the second round they realized they were coming from school. “I didn’t want to believe it was a gunshot at first, but my husband knew right away,” Cara Maldonado told NBC News on Thursday, “Look now.”She took off towards the back of the school as her husband began driving…

IE 11 is not supported. Visit a different browser site for the best experience.The Minneapolis shooter “expressed hatred for almost every group,” officials say04:10Vance says Minneapolis Church shooting is part of America’s “mental health crisis”01:41I’m playing nowThe video shows children fled from the Announcement Church after filming00:53nextAuthorities recover 120 shell casings after shooting at a school in Minneapolis00:59Minneapolis communities are calling for gun reform when mourning begins02:19Mayor of Minneapolis: “A statewide and federal ban are necessary.”02:28Robot Rabbit fights Florida’s invasive python00:31Father tells his daughter that he “can see the fear” after shooting at a school in Minneapolis07:56Minneapolis Community Honorary Award-winning…

Shoppers are holding Macy’s bags on July 15, 2025 outside the company’s flagship store in New York’s Herald Square area.Alan Chin | Bloomberg | Getty ImagesThe US economy grew at a faster pace than expected in the second quarter as consumers and businesses countered tariff volatility.Gross domestic product rose at an annual pace of 3.3% from April to June, with the Commerce Department on Thursday reporting in its second estimate of the most comprehensive measure of economic activity. Reading was superior to the initial 3.0% estimate and the 3.1% Dow Jones consensus prediction.Consumer spending, which rose 1.6% compared to the…

Opinion: Steven PU, co-founder of TaraxaRollup-based Layer 2, which is all rage today, destroys the highly unreliable nature of cryptography by destroying it or, more precisely, rapidly eroding its decentralized reliability. Crypto’s uniqueness comes primarily from its reliability with the underlying infrastructure of Layer 1. The only way to truly trust is to be completely decentralized. There, decisions are made by a large set of randomized nodes from around the world, run and owned by people with a comprehensive relationship. Its decentralization rests on three pillars: inclusion, ordering and execution. Networks are as decentralized as their weakest pillars. When any…