U.S. Sen. Jeff Merkley (D-Ore.) questions U.S. Forest Service Chief Randy Moore during a hearing in Washington, D.C. on May 4, 2022.
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UNICEF says Israeli attacks on Lebanon have killed at least one child per day and wounded 10 since October 4.
Lebanese caretaker Prime Minister Najib Mikati says he hopes a ceasefire with Israel will be announced in the coming hours or days as US envoy Amos Hochstein travels to the region for truce talks.
Even more updates.... This time at 3:53pm
(L-R) US Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem, US White House Chief of Staff Susie Wiles and US National Security Advisor Mike Waltz, attend a bilateral meeting with US President Donald Trump and El Salvador's President Nayib Bukele in the Oval Office of the WHite House in Washington, DC, APril 14, 2025. (Photo by BRENDAN SMIALOWSKI/AFP via Getty Images)Photo by Brendan SMIALOWSKI / AFPYou won't believe it.
Here is the latest development... at 3:51pm
David Hogg, gun control advocate and survivor of the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School shooting, at the 2024 Democratic National Convention in Chicago, Illinois on August 22, 2024. (Photo: Dominic Gwinn/Middle East Images/Middle East Images via AFP via Getty Images)Can you imagine... ?
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Billionaires for Trump and Vance
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No matter who may be supporting them in public opinion polls, Donald Trump and JD Vance are not the saviors of the middle class, the working, class, or the poor. They are not the champions of Blacks, whites, Latinos, men, women or any other demographic group. Their policy proposals won’t even benefit better off but not rich Americans. They are the candidates of casino, real estate, fossil fuel, and tech billionaires. Many are affiliated with Trump 47 or one of the other pro-Trump Super PACs.
I am a union member and have been since I started working as a teenager in the 1960s and I support the Harris-Walz ticket. I think it is a moral transgression in this election to vote for any down ballot Republican candidate that appears on the same line as Trump and Vance. The Democrats must win the House and Senate and local elections to stop the billionaire financed anti-democracy MAGA movement.
Americans Agree on at Least One Thing: Privacy Now
At a time when Americans seem to be increasingly polarized on almost every conceivable issue, a recent study found one issue the vast majority can agree on: Our electronic privacy laws are out of date.
A poll released this week surveyed some of the most politically diverse areas in the country -- including Nevada, Arkansas, Georgia, New Hampshire, Virginia, and Southern California -- and found that over 84 percent of people supported an update to the Electronic Communications Privacy Act (ECPA), the federal law which protects email and other online communications from government snooping.
While ECPA was meant to put in place strong privacy protections when it was passed in 1986, the law has not kept pace with our advancing technologies and now contains a massive loophole that allows emails older than 180 days to be accessed by law enforcement without a warrant. In an age of cloud computing, this means law enforcement quite literally has access to an intimate repository of our lives -- including our mistakes -- stretching back years and years.
Privacy, not surprisingly, is a core American value almost everyone can agree on.
Fortunately there is currently a bipartisan bill in Congress to close this loophole: Reps. Yoder (R-Kan.) and Polis' (D-Colo.) Email Privacy Act. Not only does the bill enjoy huge bipartisan support, it's only a few cosponsors away from having half of the House of Representative signed on as cosponsors.
There is opposition, however, to this commonsense bill.
It is currently being stalled by unelected bureaucrats in a couple of civil agencies, but if we can get the majority of members to add their support we have a good chance of making sure the same privacy protections that apply to our mail apply to our email.
Lebanese PM calls Israel’s evacuation orders a ‘war crime’
BETHLEHEM, WEST BANK - MARCH 30: A general view of Efrat Jewish Settlement in Bethlehem, West Bank on March 30, 2024. Palestine's Land Day, March 30, 1976, is an annual day of commemoration for Palestinians of the events of that date in 1976 when Israeli authorities confiscated vast areas of Palestinian land.Photo by Wisam Hashlamoun/Anadolu via Getty ImagesIsraeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu has told visiting US envoy Amos Hochstein and US Middle East adviser Brett McGurk that any ceasefire deal with Lebanon’s Hezbollah would have to guarantee Israeli security.
“The prime minister specified that the main issue is not paperwork for this or that deal, but Israel’s determination and capacity to ensure the deal’s application and to prevent any threat to its security from Lebanon,” Netanyahu’s office said after the meeting took place in Jerusalem.
Israeli Defence Minister Yoav Gallant also took part in the discussion, which he said in a statement focused on “security arrangements as these relate to the northern arena and Lebanon, and efforts to ensure the return of 101 hostages still held by Hamas in Gaza”.
Israel’s force2 displacement orders ‘do not inspire optimism’ about peace deal2
Multiple Israeli air strikes hit southern Lebanese city of Tyre.
Al Jazeera’s verification agency, Sanad, has confirmed footage posted online showing the moment of the bombing and dense smoke rising from multiple raids in the area.
The AFP news agency said the strikes on al-Housh coincided with an exodus of civilians from the Rashidieh camp for Palestinian refugees near Tyre, which had earlier received an evacuation warning.
Israel’s force displacement orders ‘do not inspire optimism’ about peace deal
Israeli emergency services say a rocket launched from Lebanon has killed two people in an olive grove in northern Israel, bringing the day’s death toll to seven.
Medics “treated and attempted resuscitation on a 30-year-old male and a 60-year-old female, who were then pronounced dead”, the Magen David Adom first responders said in a statement.
The AFP news agency said the strikes on al-Housh coincided with an exodus of civilians from the Rashidieh camp for Palestinian refugees near Tyre, which had earlier received an evacuation warning.
Israeli military says Syria strikes targeted at Hezbollah
Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu has told visiting US envoy Amos Hochstein and US Middle East adviser Brett McGurk that any ceasefire deal with Lebanon’s Hezbollah would have to guarantee Israeli security.
“The prime minister specified that the main issue is not paperwork for this or that deal, but Israel’s determination and capacity to ensure the deal’s application and to prevent any threat to its security from Lebanon,” Netanyahu’s office said after the meeting took place in Jerusalem.
Israeli Defence Minister Yoav Gallant also took part in the discussion, which he said in a statement focused on “security arrangements as these relate to the northern arena and Lebanon, and efforts to ensure the return of 101 hostages still held by Hamas in Gaza”.
Gaza death toll rises
Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu has told visiting US envoy Amos Hochstein and US Middle East adviser Brett McGurk that any ceasefire deal with Lebanon’s Hezbollah would have to guarantee Israeli security.
“The prime minister specified that the main issue is not paperwork for this or that deal, but Israel’s determination and capacity to ensure the deal’s application and to prevent any threat to its security from Lebanon,” Netanyahu’s office said after the meeting took place in Jerusalem.
Israeli Defence Minister Yoav Gallant also took part in the discussion, which he said in a statement focused on “security arrangements as these relate to the northern arena and Lebanon, and efforts to ensure the return of 101 hostages still held by Hamas in Gaza”.
Lebanese PM calls Israel’s evacuation orders a ‘war crime’
Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu has told visiting US envoy Amos Hochstein and US Middle East adviser Brett McGurk that any ceasefire deal with Lebanon’s Hezbollah would have to guarantee Israeli security.
“The prime minister specified that the main issue is not paperwork for this or that deal, but Israel’s determination and capacity to ensure the deal’s application and to prevent any threat to its security from Lebanon,” Netanyahu’s office said after the meeting took place in Jerusalem.
Israeli Defence Minister Yoav Gallant also took part in the discussion, which he said in a statement focused on “security arrangements as these relate to the northern arena and Lebanon, and efforts to ensure the return of 101 hostages still held by Hamas in Gaza”.
UNICEF says Israeli attacks on Lebanon have killed at least one child per day and wounded 10 since October 4.
Lebanese caretaker Prime Minister Najib Mikati says he hopes a ceasefire with Israel will be announced in the coming hours or days as US envoy Amos Hochstein travels to the region for truce talks.
Even more updates.... This time at 3:53pm
(L-R) US Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem, US White House Chief of Staff Susie Wiles and US National Security Advisor Mike Waltz, attend a bilateral meeting with US President Donald Trump and El Salvador's President Nayib Bukele in the Oval Office of the WHite House in Washington, DC, APril 14, 2025. (Photo by BRENDAN SMIALOWSKI/AFP via Getty Images)Photo by Brendan SMIALOWSKI / AFPYou won't believe it.
Here is the latest development... at 3:51pm
David Hogg, gun control advocate and survivor of the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School shooting, at the 2024 Democratic National Convention in Chicago, Illinois on August 22, 2024. (Photo: Dominic Gwinn/Middle East Images/Middle East Images via AFP via Getty Images)Can you imagine... ?
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Billionaires for Trump and Vance
(Photo by Bryan Bedder/Getty Images for The New York Times )
No matter who may be supporting them in public opinion polls, Donald Trump and JD Vance are not the saviors of the middle class, the working, class, or the poor. They are not the champions of Blacks, whites, Latinos, men, women or any other demographic group. Their policy proposals won’t even benefit better off but not rich Americans. They are the candidates of casino, real estate, fossil fuel, and tech billionaires. Many are affiliated with Trump 47 or one of the other pro-Trump Super PACs.
I am a union member and have been since I started working as a teenager in the 1960s and I support the Harris-Walz ticket. I think it is a moral transgression in this election to vote for any down ballot Republican candidate that appears on the same line as Trump and Vance. The Democrats must win the House and Senate and local elections to stop the billionaire financed anti-democracy MAGA movement.
Americans Agree on at Least One Thing: Privacy Now
At a time when Americans seem to be increasingly polarized on almost every conceivable issue, a recent study found one issue the vast majority can agree on: Our electronic privacy laws are out of date.
A poll released this week surveyed some of the most politically diverse areas in the country -- including Nevada, Arkansas, Georgia, New Hampshire, Virginia, and Southern California -- and found that over 84 percent of people supported an update to the Electronic Communications Privacy Act (ECPA), the federal law which protects email and other online communications from government snooping.
While ECPA was meant to put in place strong privacy protections when it was passed in 1986, the law has not kept pace with our advancing technologies and now contains a massive loophole that allows emails older than 180 days to be accessed by law enforcement without a warrant. In an age of cloud computing, this means law enforcement quite literally has access to an intimate repository of our lives -- including our mistakes -- stretching back years and years.
Privacy, not surprisingly, is a core American value almost everyone can agree on.
Fortunately there is currently a bipartisan bill in Congress to close this loophole: Reps. Yoder (R-Kan.) and Polis' (D-Colo.) Email Privacy Act. Not only does the bill enjoy huge bipartisan support, it's only a few cosponsors away from having half of the House of Representative signed on as cosponsors.
There is opposition, however, to this commonsense bill.
It is currently being stalled by unelected bureaucrats in a couple of civil agencies, but if we can get the majority of members to add their support we have a good chance of making sure the same privacy protections that apply to our mail apply to our email.
Lebanese PM calls Israel’s evacuation orders a ‘war crime’
BETHLEHEM, WEST BANK - MARCH 30: A general view of Efrat Jewish Settlement in Bethlehem, West Bank on March 30, 2024. Palestine's Land Day, March 30, 1976, is an annual day of commemoration for Palestinians of the events of that date in 1976 when Israeli authorities confiscated vast areas of Palestinian land.Photo by Wisam Hashlamoun/Anadolu via Getty ImagesIsraeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu has told visiting US envoy Amos Hochstein and US Middle East adviser Brett McGurk that any ceasefire deal with Lebanon’s Hezbollah would have to guarantee Israeli security.
“The prime minister specified that the main issue is not paperwork for this or that deal, but Israel’s determination and capacity to ensure the deal’s application and to prevent any threat to its security from Lebanon,” Netanyahu’s office said after the meeting took place in Jerusalem.
Israeli Defence Minister Yoav Gallant also took part in the discussion, which he said in a statement focused on “security arrangements as these relate to the northern arena and Lebanon, and efforts to ensure the return of 101 hostages still held by Hamas in Gaza”.
Israel’s force2 displacement orders ‘do not inspire optimism’ about peace deal2
Multiple Israeli air strikes hit southern Lebanese city of Tyre.
Al Jazeera’s verification agency, Sanad, has confirmed footage posted online showing the moment of the bombing and dense smoke rising from multiple raids in the area.
The AFP news agency said the strikes on al-Housh coincided with an exodus of civilians from the Rashidieh camp for Palestinian refugees near Tyre, which had earlier received an evacuation warning.
Israel’s force displacement orders ‘do not inspire optimism’ about peace deal
Israeli emergency services say a rocket launched from Lebanon has killed two people in an olive grove in northern Israel, bringing the day’s death toll to seven.
Medics “treated and attempted resuscitation on a 30-year-old male and a 60-year-old female, who were then pronounced dead”, the Magen David Adom first responders said in a statement.
The AFP news agency said the strikes on al-Housh coincided with an exodus of civilians from the Rashidieh camp for Palestinian refugees near Tyre, which had earlier received an evacuation warning.
Israeli military says Syria strikes targeted at Hezbollah
Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu has told visiting US envoy Amos Hochstein and US Middle East adviser Brett McGurk that any ceasefire deal with Lebanon’s Hezbollah would have to guarantee Israeli security.
“The prime minister specified that the main issue is not paperwork for this or that deal, but Israel’s determination and capacity to ensure the deal’s application and to prevent any threat to its security from Lebanon,” Netanyahu’s office said after the meeting took place in Jerusalem.
Israeli Defence Minister Yoav Gallant also took part in the discussion, which he said in a statement focused on “security arrangements as these relate to the northern arena and Lebanon, and efforts to ensure the return of 101 hostages still held by Hamas in Gaza”.
Gaza death toll rises
Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu has told visiting US envoy Amos Hochstein and US Middle East adviser Brett McGurk that any ceasefire deal with Lebanon’s Hezbollah would have to guarantee Israeli security.
“The prime minister specified that the main issue is not paperwork for this or that deal, but Israel’s determination and capacity to ensure the deal’s application and to prevent any threat to its security from Lebanon,” Netanyahu’s office said after the meeting took place in Jerusalem.
Israeli Defence Minister Yoav Gallant also took part in the discussion, which he said in a statement focused on “security arrangements as these relate to the northern arena and Lebanon, and efforts to ensure the return of 101 hostages still held by Hamas in Gaza”.
Lebanese PM calls Israel’s evacuation orders a ‘war crime’
Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu has told visiting US envoy Amos Hochstein and US Middle East adviser Brett McGurk that any ceasefire deal with Lebanon’s Hezbollah would have to guarantee Israeli security.
“The prime minister specified that the main issue is not paperwork for this or that deal, but Israel’s determination and capacity to ensure the deal’s application and to prevent any threat to its security from Lebanon,” Netanyahu’s office said after the meeting took place in Jerusalem.
Israeli Defence Minister Yoav Gallant also took part in the discussion, which he said in a statement focused on “security arrangements as these relate to the northern arena and Lebanon, and efforts to ensure the return of 101 hostages still held by Hamas in Gaza”.