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BREAKING NEWS
NASCAR announced his death Thursday in a statement that called Busch one of the sport’s greatest and fiercest drivers. He had been hospitalized earlier in the day with a severe illness, his family said, and was undergoing treatment. Busch, a Las Vegas native, won Cup Series championships in 2015 and 2019 and ranked among the…
POLITICS
WASHINGTON (BDN) — Senate Republicans are unlikely to pass their roughly $70 billion immigration enforcement bill this week. Disputes over White House security money and a $1.8 billion settlement fund for Trump allies have stalled the effort. Republicans were already expected to drop $1 billion in security funding for the White House complex and President…
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MINNEAPOLIS (BDN) — Aimee Bock, the founder of a Minnesota nonprofit at the center of a $250 million fraud scheme, was sentenced Thursday to 41½ years in federal prison. U.S. District Judge Nancy Brasel imposed the sentence in Minneapolis. It is the longest term given to any defendant in the Feeding Our Future case, which…
ANALYSIS
The Democratic National Committee’s review of the 2024 election runs 192 pages, but several of its core sections were never finished, and the committee added notes throughout disputing the author’s findings. BDN reviewed the report, which is posted in full here, as published Thursday by CNN. The document was written by Democratic strategist Paul Rivera…
ANALYSIS
The DNC has published the long-awaited autopsy for the 2024 election.PDFDNC-AUTOPSY-2024-CNN-EXCLU.pdf10.1 MB · Open in new tab↗
BREAKING NEWS
At least one person was killed Monday after police responded to an active shooter report at the Islamic Center of San Diego, according to affiliate station KGTV. Officers arrived at Eckstrom Avenue in the Clairemont area around noon, the San Diego Police Department confirmed.
POLITICS
President Donald Trump moved Monday to withdraw his $10 billion lawsuit against the Internal Revenue Service over the leak of his tax returns, filing a dismissal in federal court in Florida. The move came after ABC News reported last week that Trump was prepared to drop the suit as part of a deal that would…
BREAKING NEWS
Sen. Bill Cassidy was knocked out of Louisiana’s Republican Senate primary Saturday, finishing third behind Trump-endorsed U.S. Rep. Julia Letlow and state Treasurer John Fleming, according to AP. The result ends Cassidy’s bid for a third term and delivers on Trump’s months-long effort to punish one of the seven Republican senators who voted to convict…
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President Trump announced late Thursday that U.S. and Nigerian forces killed Abu-Bilal al-Minuki, whom he described as the second-in-command of ISIS globally, in a overnight raid. Trump called al-Minuki ‘the most active terrorist in the world’ at the time of his death.
BREAKING NEWS
The Chelan-Douglas Health District confirmed Friday a case of Sin Nombre hantavirus in a Chelan County resident, marking a separate incident from the Andes hantavirus outbreak aboard the MV Hondius cruise ship earlier this month. Health officials say exposure likely occurred in or around the patient’s home, where mice have been found.
POLITICS
The Supreme Court on Friday unanimously rejected Virginia Democrats’ bid to revive a voter-approved congressional map they had hoped to use in this year’s midterm elections. The brief decision leaves in place a Virginia Supreme Court ruling that found legal flaws in the process leading to the referendum.
BREAKING NEWS
A Geneva High School student is at the center of a suspected hantavirus case under investigation in Ontario County, the Geneva City School District confirmed Friday. The county health department said the case poses no risk to other students, staff, or the general public.
