General election will soon be cast. A handful of states are scheduled to mail out Absentee Ballots in the coming days. North carolina was supposed to be the first state to send out Ballots Yesterday, but that was delayed last minute due to a lawsuit filed by Robert F Kennedy junior who dropped out of the president ial race two weeks ago, but now he wants his name removed from the ballot to prevent spoiling the candidacy of Donald Trump. More than 130,000 voters registered in North Carolina have requested Absentee Ballots so far but it is unclear when they will receive them because the state may have to reprint the ballots which is an effort that could add days to the delay. Meanwhile, among the other states scheduled to begin early voting are illinois, minnesota, virginia and pennsylvania. A Swing State that figures heavily into both campaign electoral strategies. All of that is happening against new developments in the president ial campaign, as well as Donald Trumps legal bowels. Bat
this is american voices. as the battle of control of congress heats up before the 2024 election, republicans are showing us how they plan to governor govern if they win. case in point, they re attacking civil rights under the guise of military readiness. on thursday, the house passed a new defense spending bill, going after anything they deem as quote, woke. republican amendments to the bill include ending diversity training, limiting health care for trans service members, that bill would also rollback a pentagon policy covering travel expenses for military members. who must now travel out of state for abortion access, following the overturn of roe v. wade. this legislation made possible by a far-right faction of the house that demanded these controversial amendments to negotiations with house speaker kevin mccarthy. and this week could be a preview of the battle over government spending this fall. the new york times writes quote, mccarthy s to the right is a gambl
meteorologist on why it feels, quite literally and figuratively like a turning point on climate change. this is american voices. as the battle for control of congress heats up ahead of the 2024 election, republicans are showing up how they plan to govern if they win. case in point, they are attacking civil rights under the guise of military readiness. on thursday, the house passed a new defense spending bill, going after anything they deem as quote, woke. republican amendments to the bill include ending diversity training, limiting health care for trans service members, that bill would also rollback a pentagon service policy covering travel expenses for military members. who must now travel out of state for abortion access, following the overturn of roe v. wade. this legislation made possible by a far-right faction of the house that demanded these controversial amendments to negotiations with house speaker kevin mccarthy. and this week could be a preview of the battle over
here last week. in the immediate wake of that remarkable court ruling. and which a jury held unanimously that former president, donald trump, had sexually abused e. jean carroll. and that when he denied that and disparaged her, and come her a liar. he was the one who was lying. and he was defaming miss carroll and he was going to have to pay for it. in that case that jury ordered donald trump to pay e. jean carroll $5 million in damages. both for what he did, and what he said about her. but if you watch the show last week, and you saw the interview that i did with e. jean carroll and her attorney. you might remember that in addition to reflecting to the fact that they had won that case, one of the things that they were newly contending with in the wake of that jury verdict, was that even though trump had just been ordered to pay out millions of dollars, because of his attacks on e. jean carroll, because of his lies on her, even though he had just been ordered to pay millions
game-changer. russian officials meanwhile warned western countries that they would ruin, rather run colossal risks if they supply ukraine with f-16s. but white house officials are saying they got assurances that ukraine will avoid potential escalations of the war. we have had multiple conversations with ukrainians about the risk of escalation here. nobody wants to see world war iii. and we have made it clear that we re not gonna encourage or ukraine to strike inside russian territory. so we ve had that discussion with ukrainians, we have had it with respect to fighter aircraft. we are confident they will live up to their commitments. more on the presidents trip in a moment, back in washington, the white house is blasting congressional lawmakers over the debt ceiling deadlock. accusing republicans of holding the economy hostage. talks between both parties started, paused, restarted and ended with no indication of whether they will resume. , president biden was briefed this