Category: US politics

A Missouri foster mother accused of swapping a teenage girl for a monkey has been found guilty of child endangerment but escaped jail time.
Brenda Deutsch, 70, was sentenced to seven years last week after she sent the girl, now 17, to live in Texas with a friend. ​Court documents, reviewed by Fox News Digital, stated that Deutsch told the friend that they could keep the teenager but that she would be “keeping the check.”
According to the San Antonio Express News, the “check” was a reference to a government stipend given to Missouri foster parents.
While at the address in Texas, the girl was forced to endure dirty conditions and live among exotic animals, the records state.
Last Thursday, Deutsch, of Winfield, had her sentence suspended and was placed on three years’ probation by the judge, according to Fox 2 KTVI.
open image in galleryBrenda Deutsch, 70, who had fostered more than 200 children over the years, also had her foster care license revoked (Facebook/Brenda Deutsch)Deutsch,..

The European Union responded to repeated threats from U.S. President Donald Trump to take over Greenland by reassuring the territory with promises of an enhanced partnership and hundreds of millions of euros in investment.
European officials have turned greater attention toward Greenland since Trump insisted the United States must assume control of the island for security reasons.
The persistent claims generated concerns regarding sovereignty, prompting pushback from Greenlandic and Danish leaders while heightening strain among NATO allies.
On a visit to the capital, Nuuk, European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen pledged 200 million euros ($232 million) in support across the next two years to assist Greenland with tackling climate change, expanding internet connections, and improving education, fisheries, and hydropower plants.
“Greenland’s future is for the people of Greenland and Denmark to decide. No one else,” von der Leyen said. “Territorial integrity, sovereignty, the ..

Leer en EspañolThe UN general assembly has voted to replace the traditional world map with one that more accurately reflects the size of all nations.
The approved resolution calls for the world to move away from the traditional Mercator map, which shrinks the size of Africa and exaggerates northern landmasses.
The “Correct the Map” resolution, sponsored by Togo, passed with the support of 164 nations, including the UK. The US was the only nation to vote against it, with six other abstentions.
The resolution is non-binding, but asks governments, schools, international organisations, and technology companies to adopt the Equal Earth projection and other equal-area maps wherever the true scale of continents matters, with the aim of establishing more proportionally accurate maps as a new global norm. It does not seek to ban the Mercator projection outright.
The Mercator projection, which is currently used worldwide, increases distortion the further a region sits from the equator. Since Afr..

A Georgia cop has revealed why he shot a family’s beloved pet donkey as his department released the officer’s report to quell outrage over the killing.
Trenton Garner, an officer in Cedartown, Georgia, shot and killed the donkey, named “HeeHaw,” on August 30.
He was sent along with a K-9 handler and a bloodhound team to search for a girl who had been reported missing approximately two hours prior, according to his report.
Garner said he and the other officers were following a trail through the woods and into a pasture. They found footprints near the route and began to search the area with the help of the dogs and a drone team from the Rockmart Fire Department, CBS News reports.
The officers' presence near the fence line scared the horses in the pasture off, but — according to Garner's account — the miniature donkey HeeHaw instead charged at the officers.
open image in galleryHannah Israel with her donkey HeeHaw. The animal was shot and killed by Cedartown, Georgia, polic..

Russian drones hit Coca-Cola plant outside Kyiv, says ZelenskyVladimir Putin’s deputy foreign minister has issued a warning to Donald Trump as envoys for the US president are believed to be heading to Moscow for talks to end Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
“The key question ​is the extent ⁠to which ⁠the US administration is prepared to invest in ‌finding a real solution to the current crisis, considering ‌the realities on the ground,” Sergei Ryabkov said.
This, Mr Ryabkov sought to claim, was a situation which was not developing in Kyiv's favour, Russian state news agency TASS reported.
Trump’s envoys, Jared Kushner and Steve Witkoff, are expected to meet Russian president Vladimir Putin in Moscow on Saturday before travelling to Kyiv on Sunday to meet Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky, according to US officials.
The trip comes as Russia continues its attacks despite Zelensky’s offer of a temporary air truce. “There will be no airstrikes from our side, and Russia must reciproca..

Leer en EspañolU.S. service members assigned to the USS Abraham Lincoln are speaking out about their record-long, nearly nine-month deployment at sea, during which they supported the ongoing Iran war.
The Nimitz-class aircraft carrier — some of whose crew had reportedly suffered from deteriorating mental health — laid anchor off Thailand this week, affording its 5,000 sailors and Marines their first port call in 286 days.
While on shore in the resort town of Pattaya, some service members spoke with MS NOW Pentagon Correspondent Priya Sridhar, who recounted her discussions with them during a subsequent on-camera interview.
“Many of them told me that this was, in fact, the worst deployment that they have ever experienced,” said Sridhar, who formerly served as an officer in the Navy Reserve, according to Mediaite. “It was incredibly hard, and many of them expressed to me that they actually wish that they hadn’t even done a port call at this point.”
“They wanted to just go directly home,”..

A Pennsylvania coroner has confirmed a second measles death in a child in the state.
The measles deaths are the first reported in the United States this year amid a 35-year high in infections.
“Just today, we received a report of another child who died with measles, and we’re in the process of doing an investigation,” Lancaster County Coroner, Dr. Stephen Diamantoni, told WHTM Wednesday.
It is unclear if the second death reported by the coroner is further clarification of two deaths already reported, or if this brings the death toll to three.
There has been unusual friction between the state and the federal government after Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. asked his newly appointed CDC director to remove a reference to two Pennsylvania fatalities from the agency’s online measles tracker after questioning whether the virus contributed to the deaths, according to a new report.
open image in galleryHealth and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. speaks in Washington, D.C…

Donald Trump’s administration insists that a compensation fund for pardoned January 6 rioters is dead for good, but the Department of Justice has refused to say whether government lawyers are working on backdoor plans for taxpayer-funded payouts.
The Justice Department has denied several Freedom of Information Act requests filed by a nonprofit watchdog group, according to a newly filed federal lawsuit. The group is now asking a judge to intervene to force the government to answer.
Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington wants to know whether the Justice Department is working on settlement deals with pardoned rioters after hundreds of members of the mob filed lawsuits against the government “seeking millions of dollars for what they claim are injuries incurred during the investigation and prosecution of their federal crimes,” according to the lawsuit.
They’re all suing under the Federal Tort Claims Act, which taps into the government’s permanent Judgment Fund used to pay co..

The House of Representatives abruptly canceled the final two weeks of votes for September, effectively giving the House four days of work before the midterm elections and not being in session during August.
The move comes 60 days before the midterm elections polling shows Democrats poised to win control of the House of Representatives.
But it also comes as Republicans still face major questions about President Donald Trump’s increasingly unpopular war in Iran, the rising cost of living and the president’s plans for overhauling the nation’s capital.
The House passed a continuing resolution earlier this week to keep the government open until December, sending the bill the Senate passed before the recess to the president’s desk. That averted a government shutdown.
House Speaker Mike Johnson continues to face an unruly caucus. Earlier this week, a rule to begin debate on multiple pieces of legislation looked poised to fail after five Republicans defected to vote “no.”
The Republicans i..

A man accused of fighting a police officer in a Florida hospital appears to be covered in blood and bruises in his chilling mugshot.
​Ronald Jeffery Johnson, 51, was arrested Saturday after attacking a Fort Lauderdale Police officer at the Broward Health Medical Center, authorities said.
An arrest report obtained by The Independent revealed that an active warrant was already out for Johnson in Georgia, after he failed to appear on “terroristic threats.”
​In his Florida mugshot, Johnson’s blood-covered face looks heavily bruised, with one mark turning purple underneath his eye. The cheek on that side of his face looks heavily swollen. Blood has dried around his nose and mouth, with even one of his ears was soaked red. ​Some of the blood has splattered down onto his heavily tattooed chest.
A gloved hand also appears to be propping Johnson up.
open image in galleryThe mugshot of a man who allegedly attacked a cop in a Florida healthcare facility has been released (Broward County Sheriff&..