Tag: officials
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U.S. officials push to add some giraffes to endangered species list
Three giraffe subspecies should be added to the endangered species list, U.S. officials said Wednesday, as their populations continue a yearslong trend of decline. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service proposed that the West African, Kordofan and Nubian subspecies of northern giraffe be considered endangered under the Endangered Species Act. In addition, the service proposed…
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911 call about hiker chased by bear leads to body; officials say it was staged, caller wanted for murder
A man who called police claiming he fell off a cliff while running from a bear — leading officials to discover a dead body — is now wanted for murder, Tennessee officials say. The man called dispatch on Oct. 18 posing as a distressed hiker, claiming to be a man named Brandon Andrade, the Monroe…
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Election officials are drowned out by Musk’s falsehoods on X
As Elon Musk continues to aggressively share conspiracy theories and misinformation about elections on X, election officials are fighting back. But even as they are speaking out to try to counteract Musk, the owner of X since 2022, they’re being drowned out on a platform that seemingly favors falsities. Corrections to Musk’s lies from election…
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Pennsylvania officials investigating fraudulent voter registration applications in Lancaster County
Pennsylvania officials said Friday they are investigating as many as 2,500 fraudulent voter registration applications in Lancaster County that election workers flagged during routine reviews of the forms. When reviewing the personal information, identification and signatures listed on the forms, election officials found inaccurate information, signatures that did not match the one that had for…
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13 former Trump administration officials sign open letter backing up John Kelly’s criticism of Trump
Thirteen former Trump White House officials signed an open letter backing up former Trump chief of staff John Kelly, who told the New York Times that Trump fits the definition of a fascist. “We applaud General Kelly for highlighting in stark details the danger of a second Trump term. Like General Kelly, we did not…
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Colorado election officials say they intercepted at least a dozen fraudulent ballots
At least a dozen mail ballots were stolen, fraudulently filled out and submitted in Colorado for the Nov. 5 election, the Colorado secretary of state’s office said Thursday. Officials said the issue was identified via the signature verification process, which checks the signatures on ballots against those the state has on file for voters. Authorities…
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Russia and Iran may try to incite postelection violence, intelligence officials warn
Russia and Iran may try to incite violence or disruptive protests in the U.S. after the election, U.S. intelligence officials say. An unclassified assessment released Tuesday says the U.S. intelligence community “is increasingly confident that Russian actors are considering—and in some cases implementing—a broad range of influence efforts timed with the election. Some of these…
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Florida woman used Roblox to instruct 10-year-old to kill infant by dropping him on floor, officials say
A 2-month-old was seriously injured after a 10-year-old dropped the baby on a tile floor, authorities in Florida said while announcing the arrest of a 36-year-old woman who allegedly instructed the child via online video game Roblox on how to kill the infant. Tara Alexis Sykes was taken into custody on Friday and charged with…
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Election officials beef up security at the polls
Election officials across the country are ramping up their security measures at polling places with voting underway in the presidential race, from beefing up law enforcement presence to donning bulletproof vests to deploying drones for surveillance amid an increasingly hostile environment. The once-routine business of running elections in America has become much more fraught with…
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9 monkeys who died in Hong Kong zoo had been infected with melioidosis, officials say
HONG KONG — Nine monkeys who died in Hong Kong’s oldest zoo in two days this week had been infected with an endemic disease, possibly after some digging work near their cages, officials said on Friday. Secretary for Culture, Sports and Tourism Kevin Yeung said in a press briefing that the animals in the Hong Kong Zoological…