Truss, the fourth Conservative prime minister in six years, flew to the royal family’s Scottish home to be asked by Queen Elizabeth to form a government. She replaces Boris Johnson who was forced out after three tumultuous years in power.
When the GOP Governor Charlie Baker and Lieutenant Governor Karyn Polito announced they would not be pursuing re-election back in December to better focus on their state’s Covid-19 pandemic recovery, they left an opening for other politicians.
Secretary of Energy Jennifer Granholm expressed support for California’s ban on the sale of new gas-powered cars by 2035 in an interview on Friday, suggesting that the rule “could be” a national standard.
The city of Jackson, Mississippi, said most water pressure returned to normal on Sunday, a week after its main treatment plant failed, while U.S. officials warned it was still too early to say when a reliable supply of drinking water can be restored.
Mass shootings took place across America’s Democrat-run cities over the weekend, including shootings in Brooklyn, Philadelphia, Cleveland, Minneapolis, Charleston, Birmingham, and Chicago. The deadliest of the mass shootings took place in St. Paul, Minnesota killing three and injuring two more, while the shooting in Cleveland injured 10 people.
In a duo of swing-state Labor Day speeches, President Biden continued to rail against “MAGA Republicans” Monday as he seeks to win back working-class Americans who have felt increasingly abandoned by the leftward lurch of the Democratic party.
“We need a reduction in energy use that is two or three times greater than what we’ve seen so far as this historic heat wave continues to intensify,” said Elliot Mainzer, CEO of the ISO, said in a release.
Faith Academy in Victoria is the latest school to use a provision in Texas law to arm teachers. Unofficially known as the “guardian plan,” the policy allows “district employees to have access to certain firearms in schools, board meetings, and at school-related events,” according to a Texas NBC affiliate.
On Sunday, the United States Air Forces Central announced that it conducted “a Bomber Task Force mission” over a wide area of the Middle East on September 3.
The Horn of Africa region is facing a fifth consecutive failed rainy season. A 2011 famine in Somalia claimed more than a quarter of a million lives, most of them children.
