[aggregation-styles] The Daily Wire Former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin threatened to run a primary challenge against GOP Sen. Lisa Murkowski for refusing to back a nominee to the Supreme Court before the 2020 election. Palin posted a video to her Instagram account on Thursday addressed to Murkowski. In it, Palin...
‘All Out Brawl.’ Merced FoodMaxx Fight Ends With Councilman Pulling Gun on Suspects
[aggregation-styles] The Fresno Bee Subscription A melee that erupted Tuesday night at a Merced FoodMaxx took an unusual turn after a member of the City Council pulled a gun on some suspects who were involved in a fight. At 9:38 p.m. officers were dispatched to the 1300 W. Olive Avenue...
Weather Service Confirms 2 Creek Fire ‘Tornadoes’ With Winds up to 125 Mph
[aggregation-styles] The Washington Post Subscription California’s Creek Fire, which has torched almost 300,000 acres and become California’s largest wildfire on record, was still only a third contained as of Wednesday. Like other blazes this year, it grew rapidly during periods of hot and dry weather with strong winds, burning tens...
Wealth Tax ‘Almost Impossible to Do,’ Says Top Bank CEO
[aggregation-styles] The Hill JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon said in a CNBC interview this week that he thinks a wealth tax would be very challenging to implement. "A wealth tax is almost impossible to do," he said. "I'm not against having higher tax on the wealthy, but I think that...
Bay Area Applicants Flood Program That Pays Them $10,000 to Leave California
[aggregation-styles] SF Gate "Hi, remote workers! We'll pay you to work from Tulsa. You're going to love it here," reads the welcome message from Tulsa Remote. The program, started by the George Kaiser Family Foundation, is paying people $10,000 to move to Tulsa, Okla., to work remotely, and a surge...
Is California Too Big for Its Own Good?
[aggregation-styles] Politico SACRAMENTO — Ronald Reagan used the California governor's office as a springboard to the White House. Jerry Brown and Pete Wilson tried to. But now, the governor of the nation’s most populous state has to contend with massive wildfires, unhealthy air, rolling blackouts, unchecked homelessness, social unrest and...
Rank-and-File Union Members Snub Biden for Trump
[aggregation-styles] Politico Joe Biden has pitched himself to voters as a “union man,” a son of Scranton, Pa., who respects the dignity of work and will defend organized labor if he wins the White House. To rank-and-file members in some unions, especially the building trades, it doesn’t matter. They’re still...
New Year’s Eve Ball Will Drop in Mostly Empty Times Square This Year
[aggregation-styles] New York Post For the first time in 114 years, there will be no crowd in Times Square to cheer the famed New Year’s Eve ball drop. In the latest COVID-19-induced blow to Big Apple traditions, officials announced major changes to the annual event Wednesday — saying that while...
Here’s How Key Swing States Are Leaning in the Presidential Race — and How They’re Weathering the Recession
[aggregation-styles] Market Watch As a few battleground states look on track to decide the 2020 White House race, it’s worth looking at how their economies are faring during the coronavirus recession. Do any key swing states suffer from a relatively high unemployment rate, potentially making them easier game for Democratic...
Iran’s Rouhani: ‘Next US President Will Have to Surrender to Iran’
[aggregation-styles] American Military News Iranian President Hassan Rouhani warned on Tuesday that regardless of who is elected president in the U.S. in November, they “will have no choice but to surrender” to Iran. While speaking at the United Nations General Assembly, Rouhani criticized the U.S., claiming it violated the Iran...