Georgia casts over 1.4M ballots as critical battleground shatters early voting records

More than 1.4 million residents are currently voting early in one of the most important battleground states for the 2024 election. Georgia has been setting turnout records since early voting began on Tuesday. As of Monday morning, the Georgia state elections website shows 1,347,843 votes have been cast in person and just over 80,000 absentee […]
‘Everyone’s mad’: Fight to avoid government shutdown shatters House GOP peace

The fight to avert a government shutdown has once again highlighted the rifts within House Republicans’ slim majority. House Republican leaders tried to avoid another messy, drawn-out fight over federal funding this year by setting an ambitious timeline to pass all 12 separate budget bills before Congress recesses in August. That effort has been largely […]
Drone strike on ‘impenetrable fortress’ Tel Aviv shatters image of city’s invulnerability

The surprise drone strike by the Houthis against Tel Aviv took Israelis by surprise, shattering the assumption that the city was an “impenetrable fortress.” Israel’s second city is guarded by a once-thought-impregnable shield of air and missile defense systems, which has shielded it from every missile attack fired against it during the war in Gaza. […]