Who will rise to replace Alameda County Supervisor Keith Carson?

A broad, diverse set of candidates have emerged to run for the Alameda County Board of Supervisors District 5 seat, which will have no incumbent for the first time in more than 30 years. After Supervisor Keith Carson’s surprise, last-minute retirement annoucement last Friday, the filing deadline was extended to Wednesday December 14 at 5 … Read more

Elon Musk set to attend Italy leader Giorgia Meloni’s conservative Atreju political festival in Rome

Rome — Elon Musk will attend a conservative political festival in Rome on Saturday organized by Italy’s Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni and her far right-wing party, the Brothers of Italy, the party says. In addition to the tech billionaire, British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak, Spanish far-right Vox party leader Santiago Abascal and Albanian Prime Minister Edi … Read more

Denver cuts ribbon on Colorado Convention Center’s rooftop ballroom

Denver city officials and business leaders converged atop the Colorado Convention Center Thursday to celebrate the completion of an 80,000-square-foot rooftop ballroom — part of a project that’s a decade and $233 million in the making. The project hit several hurdles, including a bid-ridding scandal, but the focus at the ribbon-cutting ceremony was on the … Read more

COVID wedding provisions to be made permanent

COVID-era measures that allowed for marriage notices to be carried out online are being made permanent. Changes to marriage laws introduced to federal parliament on Wednesday will allow for a notice of intended marriage to be witnessed virtually, rather than requiring it to be done in person. Temporary measures allowing online witnessing were introduced in … Read more

Federal Government’s critical minerals list gets a reshuffle with a secondary ‘strategic’ bundle added

The Federal Government has updated its critical minerals list, including a surprise addition, and, in a boon for a plethora of WA miners, will up its support for other battery metals developments. Heading into 2024 the Government will knock helium from its critical minerals list and add rare earths elements molybdenum, selenium and tellurium, as … Read more

Congress passes $886 billion defense policy bill, Biden to sign into law

US Air Force general Charles Quinton Brown Jr. (R) and US Defence Secretary Lloyd Austin speaks (L) attend a press conference at the NATO headquarters in Brussels, on October 11, 2023.  Simon Wohlfahrt | AFP | Getty Images More than two-thirds of the U.S. House of Representatives voted in favor of a defense policy bill … Read more

Taiwan election 2024: DPP senses victory in ‘perfect match’ Lai-Hsiao ticket but for Beijing it might ‘mean war’

The pair officially registered their candidacies the next day, as the island’s main opposition Kuomintang and the smaller Taiwan People’s Party failed to agree on a joint ticket to challenge Lai. With her reputation as a calm, rational and highly capable politician who is highly regarded in the political, diplomatic and academic circles of Washington, … Read more

Border sheriff: Congress, White House ‘playing the blame game’

(NewsNation) — Congress departed Washington on Thursday without a deal to pass an aid package for Ukraine. Some Senate Republicans are refusing to pass it until the White House makes concessions on the southern border. Mark Dannels, the sheriff of Cochise County, Arizona, says residents of communities along the border are watching lawmakers in Washington … Read more

5 Takeaways From Inside the Overturning of Roe v. Wade

A Times investigation reveals the behind-the-scenes story of how the Supreme Court abolished the constitutional right to abortion. FOLLOW US ON GOOGLE NEWS Read original article here Denial of responsibility! Trusted Bulletin is an automatic aggregator of the all world’s media. In each content, the hyperlink to the primary source is specified. All trademarks belong … Read more

Markey calls on US to ‘square up’ to climate promises after COP28 

With a historic climate consensus coming out of this year’s U.N. Climate Change Conference (COP28), Sen. Ed Markey (D-Mass.) called on the United States to commit to its climate promises Thursday morning at The Hill’s “Enhancing Energy Efficiency: How Technology is Cutting Carbon Emissions” event, sponsored by Samsung Electronics America.   Markey called the U.S. … Read more