Month: May 2023

CNN — Rep. George Santos has named himself treasurer of his campaign committee, marking the latest twist in a months-long saga of baffling filings his campaign has made with federal regulators. The new presentation, made Friday afternoon with the Federal Election Commission, comes a little more than a week after federal prosecutors filed a 13-count criminal indictment charging the New York Republican with wire fraud, fraudulently obtaining the Covid-19 unemployment benefits and lying about your staff. funding in forms he submitted to the United States House of Representatives as a candidate. He has denied wrongdoing and pleaded not guilty to…

About 500 Americans are banned from entering Russia, including current and former US government officials, educators and celebrities. In a statement on Fridaythe Russian Foreign Ministry said the ban was in response to sanctions by the Biden administration that it said “are designed to inflict maximum harm” on Russian officials and citizens. Topping the list of “significant” political figures barred from Russian territory are former President Barack Obama, three US senators, many US representatives, two former US ambassadors to Russia and two former US ambassadors in Ukraine The list also included companies that manufactured weapons supplied to Ukraine in its…

CNN — The Treasury Department is steadily draining the funds it has to pay the nation’s bills during the debt ceiling impasse. The Treasury had $57.3 billion in cash on hand Thursday, according to federal data. The amount bounces back as the agency collects revenue and makes payments, but the balance has shrunk from $238.5 billion earlier in the month, when coffers were relatively detached from tax collections in April . Since the U.S. reached its debt ceiling in January, the Treasury has been forced to rely on cash and emergency measures to pay the bills until Congress tackles the…

The horror of nuclear war has been highlighted by world leaders attending the G7 summit in Hiroshima, Japan. Hiroshima, Japan – Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida has sought to use the G7 summit in Japan to highlight the horrors of nuclear war and promote his vision of a world without nuclear weapons. On Friday, G7 and European Union leaders visited the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum, which commemorates the victims of the atomic bomb that US forces dropped on Hiroshima on August 6, 1945. At the museum, which contains graphic descriptions of the devastation caused by the world’s first nuclear attack,…

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — The former lobbyist for the San Francisco 49ers has testified that a Silicon Valley alderman illegally leaked a confidential report critical of the team’s political influence, it was reported Friday. Rahul Chandhok told a criminal grand jury on March 21 that Santa Clara City Councilman Anthony Becker digitally sent him the report, which was drawn up by a civil grand jury last October, the San Francisco Chronicle. reported after reviewing a transcript of his testimony. Prosecutors accuse Becker of providing the secret report to Chandhok and a local news outlet before its official release and then…

WASHINGTON — Ron DeSantis formally enters the 2024 Republican presidential race as a different underdog than Donald Trump, but also an underdog with a chance. While Trump’s lead in the polls has grown in recent months, DeSantis still has more money, fewer legal problems and a discernible path to victory, several Republicans and political analysts say, if he can execute on the campaign trail. electoral “The news of his electoral death is greatly exaggerated,” said Alex Stroman, a former Republican political consultant based in South Carolina, one of the first states in next year’s primary. Ron DeSantis plans to formally…

Replay: Ukraine’s Zelensky addresses Arab League summit in Saudi Arabia For free real-time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox, sign up for our breaking news emails Sign up to our free emails for breaking news Britain’s Ministry of Defense has said Russia has redeployed troops to the key battleground town of Bakhmut after Ukrainian forces made tactical gains there. It comes amid doubts about the commitment of fighters in Bakhmut belonging to the Russian mercenary group Wagner, whose leader has become increasingly critical of the Kremlin. Elsewhere, Volodymyr Zelensky has landed in Japan for the G7 summit, marking…

On Wednesday, May 10, the Wayland School Committee announced Wayland Middle School Principal Betsy Gavron as interim assistant superintendent. She was one of the three finalists for the site. Interim Superintendent David Fleishman sent an email to Wayland Public Schools families on Thursday, May 11 to inform them of this decision. “After careful deliberation, I was very pleased to recommend this to the School Committee [Gavron] to be named Interim Assistant Superintendent and I am pleased to report that his appointment was approved at last night’s meeting,” Fleishman wrote. Fleishman emphasized the importance of the decision and the need for…