LA City Council Advances Measure To Allow Non-Citizens To Vote In Local Elections

Disney Says FCC Used Early License Reviews As "Maximal Coercive Pressure" On ABC While Dodging The Courts Disney and ABC told a federal court on Monday that the FCC ordered early license reviews of all eight ABC-owned stations to pressure the network over its programming, and picked that route because the alternatives would have put the dispute in front of a judge. Disney's attorneys wrote in the filing, as reported by TheWrap, that that "Defendants sought to inflict maximal coercive pressure on the media company whose speech the Administration sought to...

War Zones Converging? Zelensky Says Ukraine Hit Ship "Transporting Military Cargo" From Iran Ukraine has rapidly expanded its one-way attack-drone campaign from the Sea of Azov into the Black Sea, claiming strikes against more than 180 vessels and maritime targets around the Crimean region over the past three weeks, according to Reuters. The widening maritime offensive follows a summer campaign in which Ukrainian drones struck dozens of Russian energy assets, warehouses and logistics hubs. The risk of the Russia-Ukraine conflict merging with the US-Iran conflict seems plausible, but remains low at...

Israel Seizes Crusader Beaufort Castle, Marking Deepest Plunge Into Lebanon In Decades Fresh Sunday reports say that Israel's military has made its deepest plunge into Lebanon in nearly three decades, having captured a strategic crusader castle site and UNESCO World Heritage Landmark, Beaufort castle. It was last captured in 1982, when the IDF later pushed all the way north to occupy portions of Beirut. The army posted photographic proof via its Arabic spokesperson, Avichay Adraee, who issued an image on X showing Israeli troops walking outside the castle. An Israeli flag has also...