Madeline Sponsler, FISM News [elfsight_social_share_buttons id=”1″] A U.S. Army private who according to federal prosecutors confessed to his role in plotting a deadly attack on his own military unit pleaded not guilty to charges he shared secret information about the unit with a neo-Nazi group. Ethan Melzer, 22, entered his plea on Monday before U.S. […]
Madeline Sponsler, FISM News [elfsight_social_share_buttons id=”1″] U.S. services industry activity rebounded sharply in June, almost returning to its pre-COVID-19 pandemic levels, but a resurgence in coronavirus cases that has forced some restaurants and bars to close again threatens the emerging recovery. The Institute for Supply Management (ISM) said its non-manufacturing activity index jumped to a […]
Madeline Sponsler, FISM News [elfsight_social_share_buttons id=”1″] The Trump administration on Monday said it was releasing the names of hundreds of thousands of businesses that took money from a high-profile $660 billion pandemic aid program, letting the public see for the first time how the majority of the cash was spent and whether it helped save […]
Madeline Sponsler, FISM News [elfsight_social_share_buttons id=”1″] The U.S. Supreme Court refused to free “faithless electors” in the complex Electoral College system that decides the outcome of presidential elections from state laws that force them to support the candidate who wins the state’s popular vote. The justices unanimously rejected the idea that electors, who act on […]
Samuel Case, FISM News [elfsight_social_share_buttons id=”1″] On Tuesday Beijing’s top legislature officially passed new national security legislation for Hong Kong in a unanimous vote. At the time of its passage not many official details were known, besides claims from the mainland government that the new law would deal with issues of subversion, terrorism, separatism and […]
Ian Patrick and Madeline Sponsler for FISM News [elfsight_social_share_buttons id=”1″] Russians opened the door to Vladimir Putin staying in power until 2036 by voting overwhelmingly for constitutional changes that will allow him to run again for president twice, but critics said the outcome was falsified on an industrial scale. Official results published on Thursday, after […]
Madeline Sponsler, FISM News [elfsight_social_share_buttons id=”1″] Hong Kong police fired water cannon and tear gas and arrested more than 300 people as protesters took to the streets in defiance of sweeping security legislation introduced by China to snuff out dissent. Beijing unveiled the details of the much-anticipated law late on Tuesday after weeks of uncertainty, […]
Madeline Sponsler, FISM News [elfsight_social_share_buttons id=”1″] Ghislaine Maxwell, the former girlfriend and longtime associate of the late disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein was arrested in New Hampshire on Thursday on U.S. charges of luring underage girls so that Epstein could sexually abuse them. The arrest of the British socialite is the latest twist in the mystery […]
Samuel Case, FISM News Republican Senators James Lankford of Oklahoma and Ron Johnson of Wisconsin have filed an amendment to replace Columbus Day with Juneteenth as a federally recognized holiday. Lankford said of the potential new holiday, “Throughout our history, we have strived to become a more perfect union and Juneteenth was a huge step […]
By Ian Patrick, FISM News [elfsight_social_share_buttons id=”1″] A recent tweet from the Minor League Baseball Association @MiLB announced that the 2020 Season for Minor League has been canceled. J. Anderson of CBS Sports acknowledges that, while this is unprecedented, it marks a milestone as “the first time in the organization’s 120-year history that it has […]
