The head of the Maui Emergency Management Agency (MEMA) resigned on Thursday amid growing criticism over the Hawaiian island's response to the devastating wildfires that killed over 100 people. Maui County said in a Facebook post that MEMA Administrator Herman Andaya had submitted his resignation, citing “health reasons.” “Given the gravity of the crisis we...
A super PAC backing the candidacy of Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis in the 2024 presidential race released an advertisement hitting former President Donald Trump for being “too weak to debate” Wednesday. “We need a nominee with stamina,” said the voiceover of the ad from the Never Back Down super PAC. “A nominee who’s sharp.” The...
The average 30-year fixed-rate mortgage rate is the highest it's been in over 20 years, Freddie Mac announced Thursday. This announcement comes in the wake of home prices reportedly moving up 0.8 percent in June after over a year of slowing. In a statement on the average rate, currently, at 7.09 percent, Freddie Mac’s Chief...
Former President Trump’s lawyers are proposing an April 2026 trial in the federal case over his efforts to block the transfer of power after the 2020 election. The Trump team’s suggested start date falls more than two years after the Justice Department’s proposal of Jan. 2, 2024, which the former president’s lawyers argued is meant...
In a Thursday interview on Fox News, former Attorney General Bill Barr said he thinks the federal cases against former President Donald Trump are “legitimate.” When asked by Neil Cavuto on “Your World” about which cases against his former boss he thinks have merit, Barr responded that he thinks both of Special Counsel Jack Smith’s...
Former President Donald Trump on Thursday canceled a planned news conference for next week in which he said he would share claims of election fraud in Georgia in the 2020 election, the same types of claims that led to his indictment in the state earlier this week. Trump wrote on Truth Social that his lawyers...
Herman Andaya, Maui's Emergency Management Agency administrator resigned from his post Thursday for health reasons, just a day after being questioned about sirens during the wildfires in Lahaina, Maui, Hawaii.