Matt Gagnon criticized Shenna Bellows for manipulating the language of a voter ID referendum question, leading with less popular changes to absentee ballots and drop boxes to obscure the main issue. He argued that the question should have prioritized voter ID and listed other changes separately. Gagnon also suggested that Bellows’ actions were unethical and compared her to other reprehensible figures in Maine politics. Additionally, Gagnon discussed a poll question about cutting federal research funding to elite universities like Harvard and Columbia, noting that 87% of respondents supported it, despite his own conflicted feelings on the issue.
Days of downpours have begun in Hawaii. The Southwest will soon bake with day after day of record 100-degree-plus (38 Celsius-plus) heat. Two storms will dump snow by the foot over northern Great Lakes states. And the dreaded polar vortex will again invade the Midwest and East with soul-crushing Arctic chill. This forecast of extremes comes as weather whiplash has already hit much of the East.
An inflation gauge closely monitored by the Federal Reserve moved higher in January in the latest sign that prices were persistently elevated even before the Iran war caused spikes in oil and gas costs.
A man with a rifle who crashed into a large Michigan synagogue in what federal officials are saying was an attack had lost four family members in an Israeli airstrike in his native Lebanon last week, an official said Friday.
House lawmakers were digging into Jeffrey Epstein's sprawling financial portfolio on Wednesday as a committee deposed his former accountant and tried to understand his connections to some of the world's wealthiest men.
