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In the news today: President Donald Trump said the U.S. has carried out a strike in the Caribbean against a drug-carrying vessel from Venezuela; federal intervention may come to Chicago and Baltimore soon, despite local opposition; and a judge orders a shakeup in the Google monopoly case. Also, a new study says sharks are in danger of losing their teeth. |
President Donald Trump in the Oval Office of the White House, Tuesday. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein)
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Trump says US strike on vessel in Caribbean targeted Venezuela's Tren de Aragua gang, killed 11
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President Donald Trump said Tuesday the U.S. has carried out a strike in the southern Caribbean against a drug-carrying vessel that departed from Venezuela and was operated by the Tren de Aragua gang. The president said in a social media posting that 11 people were killed in the rare U.S. military operation in the Americas, a dramatic escalation in the Republican administration's effort to stem the flow of narcotics from Latin America. Read more. |
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Trump says he's set to order federal intervention in Chicago and Baltimore, despite local opposition
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President Donald Trump said Tuesday that he's ready to order federal authorities to mobilize and combat crime in Chicago and Baltimore, despite staunch opposition from elected leaders and many residents in both cities. Asked by reporters in the Oval Office about sending National Guard troops to the nation's third-largest city, Trump said, "We're going in," but added, "I didn't say when." Read more. |
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Recently, the Trump administration has renewed interest in Chicago's daily crime log, including using a spate of shootings during the Labor Day weekend as justification for increased military presence. Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson said violence in the city stems from guns on the streets that are trafficked to Illinois from neighboring states, including Republican-led Indiana. "Chicago will continue to have a violence problem as long as red states continue to have a gun problem," Johnson said.
- Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker, a potential 2028 Democratic presidential contender, scoffed at the notion of sending military troops and federal agents into Chicago, reiterating Tuesday that federal intervention was not required or wanted. Local officials in Baltimore have joined Democratic Maryland Gov. Wes Moore in similarly opposing federal law enforcement intervention.
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Judge orders search shakeup in Google monopoly case
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U.S. District Judge Amit Mehta on Tuesday ordered a shakeup of Google's search engine in an attempt to curb the corrosive power of an illegal monopoly, while rebuffing the U.S. government's attempt to break up the company and impose other restraints. Read more. |
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The judge is trying to rein in Google by prohibiting some of the tactics the company deployed to drive traffic to its search engine and other services, such as preventing contracts that give its search engine, Gemini AI app, Play Store for Android, and virtual assistant an exclusive position on smartphone, personal computers, and other devices.
- But Mehta rejected the U.S. Justice Department's effort to force Google to sell its popular Chrome browser and stopped short of banning the multibillion-dollar deals that Google has been making for years to lock in its search engine as the default on many devices.
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A Fierljeppen competition in Kockengen, Netherlands, on Aug. 27. (AP Photo/Peter Dejong)
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'You get to fly': Why Dutch athletes pole vault over canals
The Dutch sport of "fierljeppen" sees athletes hoist themselves up and over canals on slender carbon poles in the Netherlands countryside. If they get it right, they land in the sand on the other bank. If not, they get soaked in the canal. |
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