Donald Trump is looking at a fall announcement for his 2024 presidential candidacy, according to a report, the Daily Beast website reports today (July 14, 2022).
The Washington Post says Trump is looking at September as the ideal month to fire the starting gun on his bid to reclaim the White House.
He has reportedly been advised not to announce his candidacy before the midterm elections in November, with Trump-backing strategists fearing he would be blamed for poor GOP results.
Israel and the U.S. today (July 13, 2022) announced the establishment of a bilateral committee to promote technology cooperation, hours before President Joe Biden landed in Israel on his first Mideast trip as president, according to the Times of Israel website.
The StrategicHigh-Level Dialogue on Technology will be tasked with presenting solutions to global challenges, such as pandemic preparedness, climate change, implementation of artificial intelligence, and ensuring trusted technology ecosystems
The collaborative will be led by the respective national security councils and include rpresentatives from various agencies in both countries.
The Pentagon has announced that an ISIS leader in Syria was killed today (July 12, 2022) in a drone strike, the Yahoo News website reports.
The U.S. Central Command said that Maher at Agal -- the leader of the Islamic State in Syria -- was killed in northwestern Syria.
Another senior ISIS leader was seriously wounded in the drone attack, according to the Pentagon.
Portugal has requested emergency EU (European Union) assistance as wildfires have broken out across parts of the country, the BBC website reports today (July 11, 2022).
Thousands of firefighters have been tackling the blazes.
So far, no serious injuries have been recorded, and several villages have been evacuated as a precaution.
As ordered by Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky, a million-strong fighting force has been amassed in the country to recapture its southern areas, which have been taken by Russian forces, the RT website reports today (July 10, 2022).
Ukraine's defense minister Alexey Reznikov said, "We're people of the free world and with a real sense of justice and liberty."
Reznikov praised the British effort to help Ukraine by providing it with artillery, multiple launch rocket systems, and high-tech drones.
While recent polls show that President Joe Biden's job approval rating keeps falling, the latest Rasmussen Reports daily tracking poll saw Biden's approval rating fall below former President Donald Trump's worst-ever rating, the Newsmax website reports today (July 9, 2022).
Trump's approval rating never dipped below 38% in four years of Rasmussen polls, while Biden's approval rating was measured at 37% by the polling company on July 8.
The White House has tried to fix Biden's slide in the polls with more travel and speeches, but without success.
Californians are finally beginning to heed the state's urgent call for water conservation -- but not fast enough -- the LA Times website reports today (July 8, 2022).
After months of middling efforts, residents in May saved 3.1% more water than the same month in 2020, the baseline year against which current data are measured.
Numbers for June showed an even greater statewide savings of 7.7%, but experts warned that more is needed as California enters the hottest, driest part of the year.
