UNIONDALE, N.Y. – The International Brotherhood of Teamsters announced on Wednesday that it won’t endorse either Vice President Kamala Harris or former President Donald Trump in the 2024 White House election.  The powerful union decided to stay neutral in a presidential race for the first time in over a quarter-century – despite releasing internal polling of the union’s rank-and-file membership showing majority support for Trump.  And the populist...

In an effort to “sow discord and shape the outcome of U.S. elections”, Iranian cyber actors sent messages during the summer to people involved in President Biden’s then re-election campaign containing stolen material from former President Trump’s campaign, U.S. agencies said. “Iranian malicious cyber actors in late June and early July sent unsolicited emails to individuals then associated with President Biden’s campaign that contained an excerpt taken from...

House Speaker Mike Johnson’s plan to avert a partial government shutdown failed on Wednesday.  It was voted down 202 to 220, with two Republicans – Reps. Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Ga., and Thomas Massie, R-Ky. – voting “present.” At least nine Republicans voted against House GOP leadership’s bill, a six-month extension of the current year’s federal funding levels coupled with a measure to require proof of citizenship in the...