President Trump has canceled a plan to livestream the execution of Fort Hood shooter Nidal Hasan amid opposition from religious figures, political leaders and the public.
The president said the Dec. 3 execution of the former Army major and psychiatrist will continue as scheduled, but will not be available for online viewing.
Trump said he believed streaming the execution might have served as a strong deterrent. The family members of the victims in the Nov. 5, 2009, shooting will be able to view his execution by firing squad in person.
The Department of Justice is asking a judge to bar California from counting ballots cast by roughly 20,000 people the government believes are noncitizens.
Trump administration officials said they provided the list of names to election officials in California this week and wanted the state to verify those individuals are valid voters. When nothing was done, the administration turned to the courts to block the state from counting the ballots.
In response, California Secretary of State Shirley Weber called the demand to refuse to count already mailed ballots “unprecedented” and the timeline for action was impossible. She also said the government’s methodology for identifying noncitizens was unverifiable.
President Trump is attempting to hand out cash and scrambling to lower fuel prices, hoping the last-ditch moves will convince midterm voters tired of high costs and war-related headaches to keep Republicans in control of Congress
Trump has authorized dividend checks to troops, Medicare enrollees and certain Affordable Care Act customers, and he is promising $5,000 to every adult if Republicans retain their majorities.
He is going all-out on diesel, hoping to blunt shortages from the wars in Iran and Ukraine by authorizing the sale of red-dye fuel for road vehicles and touting a controversial deal with Russian President Vladimir Putin for hundreds of thousands of tons of Russian fuel.
The president and congressional Republicans will have a hard time using cash to overcome deep concerns about the war in Iran, inflation issues and energy prices.
Federal authorities are scrutinizing how Minnesota Rep. Ilhan Omar obtained her citizenship after arriving in the U.S. in 1995.
Investigators are looking into the actions of both Omar and her deceased father, who was from Somalia and brought her to the U.S. from a refugee camp in Kenya.
The scope of the investigation into Omar is unclear after federal agents raided her D.C. home on Monday, seizing her cellphone, personal computers, notebooks and her passport. No criminal charges have been filed.
And finally … North Korea has opened a new military museum.
The National Defense Revolution Museum was built to commemorate the 81st founding anniversary of the Workers’ Party of Korea. Images released showed North Korean President Kim Jong-un admiring an intercontinental ballistic missile — an untested weapon currently under development.
Other weapons shown included a hypersonic short-range ballistic missile, submarine-launched ballistic missiles, multiple-launch rocket systems, tanks and small arms. The location was not disclosed.
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