Former West Virginia Sen. Joe Manchin, a Democrat-turned-independent, said Monday he supports two Republican Senate candidates running in battleground races in November.
During an appearance on CNBC, Manchin expressed support for former Rep. Mike Rogers, who is running for an open seat in Michigan, and Sen. Susan Collins of Maine, who is seeking reelection. Both races are crucial to whether the GOP will retain control of the Senate.
"You lose the Susan Collinses of the Senate, you're losing the soul of the Senate — basically, a person you can talk to, who wants to do the right thing all of the time," Manchin said, adding that he would campaign with the senator.
Manchin, a longtime critic of extremes in both parties, served in the Senate from 2010-2025 and left the Democratic Party during his final months in office, arguing that the party's brand had become "toxic." He has remained involved in politics and launched a national effort in July to help elect more independents.
Mike Rogers, left, and Sen. Susan Collins - Getty Images

#rogers #left

BERLIN (AP) — The Swiss federal intelligence service on Thursday published a 200-page dossier on the notorious ******* war criminal Josef Mengele, the German doctor known as the "Angel of Death" for conducting horrific medical experiments on prisoners at Auschwitz.
During World War II, Mengele served at the Auschwitz extermination camp in ******* -occupied Poland, where about 1.1 million people were killed, approximately 1 million of them Jews. He became infamous for carrying out brutal medical experiments on inmates, including children, under the guise of scientific research.
After the war, Mengele obtained a Red Cross travel document under a false identity, allowing him to leave Europe. Like many former ******* officials, he spent years in hiding in Latin America while being pursued internationally for his crimes. He drowned in 1979 while swimming on the coast of Brazil.
The documents released by Swiss authorities include material provided to police suggesting that Mengele may have returned to Switzerland after initially fleeing Germany, or may have been planning to enter the country under a false name, according to the German news agency dpa.
Historians seeking to establish whether Mengele spent time in Switzerland while being pursued as a war criminal, without Swiss authorities catching him, had long sought access to the files.

#swiss #german #million

Asked about the trade war with Canada on Wednesday, President Donald Trump falsely claimed that U.S. banks are not allowed to do business with its neighbor to the north.
The allegation came during a meeting with U.S. travel executives in the Oval Office, after a reporter asked Trump whether there are plans for renewed trade talks between the two countries.
Experts say that although they may face restrictions, U.S. banks are not forbidden from operating in Canada.
Here's a closer look at the facts.
TRUMP: "They have their banks here, Bank of Canada, all of their big banks — big, beautiful banks. I think they have six or seven major banks here. We don't have our banks there. You know why? They don't allow it."

#donald

WORCESTER, Mass. (AP) — A Massachusetts woman wanted in connection with the death of her police officer husband was found dead near a hospital Monday during an intensive law enforcement search that included drones, boats and tracking dogs, authorities said.
Karen Solomon, an advocate who called for improvements and greater awareness of police mental health problems, had disappeared after Kurt Solomon, who served 31 years with Worcester police, was found dead at their home Tuesday morning. Officials had named Karen Solomon a suspect.
"We believe this case is a tragic murder-suicide that occurred," Worcester Police Chief Paul Saucier said at a news conference Monday.
Two people who worked at Fairlawn Rehabilitation Hospital reported finding human remains, and officers recovered a woman's corpse there, Saucier said.
A final ID was still pending, but authorities said they were confident it was Karen Solomon. A handgun recovered at the scene was not a Worcester police service weapon, and investigators were working to determine who owned it.

#worcester

LAS VEGAS (AP) — An appeals court has ruled that Sigal Chattah, the Trump administration's initial pick for U.S. attorney in Nevada, was unlawfully appointed to lead federal prosecutions in the state.
The decision Monday by the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals marked another setback for Trump's efforts to extend handpicked U.S. attorneys beyond a 120-day limit set by federal law. The strategy was designed to bypass confirmation by the U.S. Senate — something that generally requires a degree of bipartisan support.
Chattah has continued in the office under the ******* le of first ******* istant U.S. attorney since a lower-court judge paused a ruling disqualifying her from overseeing several criminal prosecutions while the appeals process took place.
Earlier this year, the White House selected George Kelesis as a replacement, but he must still go through the Senate's nomination process. Kelesis, a Las Vegas native, has been practicing law in the Silver State since 1981.
The administration's decision to nominate Kelesis in February signaled its uncertainty regarding Chattah's long-term position in the role after setbacks in similar cases across the country.

#kelesis #appeals

A man charged with starting one of the wildfires in Spokane, Washington, that have destroyed hundreds of buildings planned the crime for weeks and researched when the weather would be best for igniting it, police said.
Aaron Farinacci expressed that "fire is powerful, beautiful, and that things that go through fire experience a kind of rebirth," Spokane County Detective Michael Drapeau said in a court filing Wednesday, recalling his interview with him.
Farinacci, 37, is charged with starting the Old Trails Fire, one of three fires in the Spokane area that have burned more than 850 homes and forced the evacuation of tens of thousands of people. He is also charged in connection with two smaller fires ignited in the summer of 2025.
He was scheduled to be arraigned on three first-degree arson charges Thursday, but his lawyer asked for a competency evaluation before he enters a plea. Spokane Superior Court Judge Jeremy Schmidt said he would review that request. He set bond for $2 million, ruling that Farinacci was a risk to community safety, a flight risk and that there was potential for a violent offense.
Defense attorney Colin Charbonneau did not immediately return messages seeking comment.

#three

Kristi Noem plans to divorce her husband of 34 years, Bryon Noem, her mother said, bringing a public end to a marriage that came under new scrutiny this year after allegations about his private life surfaced in a tabloid investigation.
Corinne Arnold, Noem's mother, told the Daily Mail that the former Homeland Security secretary shared the decision with family members this spring. The revelation comes months after a Daily Mail report alleged Bryon Noem paid adult entertainers and cross-dressed during role-playing encounters, which left the family "blindsided," according to a spokesperson.
"I said: 'What's the deal? Are you going to get together again?' And she said: 'No. No. We're going to get a divorce,'" Arnold told the outlet.
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Arnold said Noem disclosed her plans while relatives gathered to celebrate one of the couple's grandchildren's birthdays.

Former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's husband was involved in a hit and run Friday in California's wine country that left one car with "major damage," according to local authorities, who said the 86-year-old could face misdemeanor charges.
Paul Pelosi was driving his brown convertible in Yountville, a small town in Napa County, when he struck a legally parked car on the side of the road, briefly stopped and then drove away, the Napa County Sheriff's Office said in a news release Saturday. There were no reported injuries.
A witness saw the crash and called 911. Shortly after, sheriff's deputies found Pelosi with severe damage to the front of his car on a nearby road roughly a quarter of a mile away. The octogenarian told officers that he knew he hit something but wasn't sure when or what caused the damage to his car.
Pelosi didn't have any alcohol in his system at the time of the crash, according to the statement. The sheriff's office referred Pelosi to the California Department of Motor Vehicles to initiate a process that will determine whether he is able to continue driving — a process that officials say is "common" for elderly drivers.
He wasn't arrested, and because no one was physically injured, the sheriff's office is recommending a misdemeanor that charges Pelosi with fleeing the scene of an accident.

PepsiCo Beverages US CMO Mark Kirkham credits a focus on organic social media with helping drive the brand's engagement to a 20-year high. Working with VaynerMedia, the company has increased its content output fivefold. Kirkham says the approach requires trusting internal teams and allowing social media algorithms to determine what resonates.

Palo Alto Networks CEO Nikesh Arora said 90% of enterprise employees aren't "AI savvy."
The cybersecurity CEO said the struggle is how to overhaul workforces to meet the moment.
Arora said Palo Alto Networks is only hiring its technical roles from hackathons.
Palo Alto Networks CEO Nikesh Arora says enterprises don't have the workforces they need for the AI moment.
"The challenge right now is 90% of the enterprise employees are not AI savvy," Arora said during a recent episode of the "20VC" podcast.

A man who was restrained on a Jet2 flight by fellow travellers after he allegedly **** aulted another passenger and cabin crew, has died.
Police were called to reports of a passenger attacking another customer and a staff member on the Jet2 flight from Cyprus to Manchester and being "disruptive and aggressive" in the early hours of Monday.
On landing at Manchester Airport, officers used handcuffs to detain Callum Kerr, 35, of Warrington, but quickly found he was "unresponsive" and performed CPR on him before taking him to hospital, Greater Manchester Police (GMP) said.
Kerr, a bare-knuckle fighter, died on Tuesday. An investigation into his death is under way.
Paying tribute, Kerr's loved ones said: "Callum was a family man, father to three beautiful young children, a lover of sport and with a heart of gold."

WASHINGTON (AP) — The relationship between President Donald Trump and Senate Republicans neared a breaking point this week as he upended their efforts to speedily confirm one of his own nominees and said he would not sign the renewal of a key surveillance law unless they agree to new terms.
Trump's overnight social media post Wednesday that he was delaying Jay Clayton's nomination to become national intelligence director, just hours before the U.S. attorney's confirmation hearing, further strained relations between the Senate and White House that have been worsening for weeks. Later that day, some Republican senators who have been hesitant to challenge the president directly on the Iran war were blunt in their criticism of his deal to end it.
"This is the worst foreign policy blunder in decades," Sen. Bill Cassidy, R-La., said in a post on X.
The open tensions are an almost complete reversal from a year ago when Senate Republicans worked closely with Trump on a complicated effort to push through his massive package of spending and tax cuts.
At the time, criticism of the president was almost nonexistent among Republicans on Capitol Hill, and they planned to highlight passage of that bill in the midterms. But as the November election draws closer and Republicans are trying to defend their majorities, Trump is instead needling Congress with his demands and reversals, driving several Republican senators to disparage his actions publicly for the first time.

MOSCOW, June 15 (Reuters) - Russia said on Monday that it did not strike the historic ‌Pechersk Lavra monastery in Kyiv in an ‌overnight attack on military factories in the Ukrainian capital and that a U.S.-made Patriot air defence missile had damaged the religious site.
The UNESCO World Heritage monastery caught fire overnight on Monday in the heaviest Russian air attack ‌on the Ukrainian ⁠capital in two weeks. Moscow said its attack had targeted and struck drone manufacturing ⁠facilities, while Ukraine and many Western countries accused Russia of striking the monastery.
Russia's Defence Ministry said that the Patriot missile which it said had damaged the monastery ‌could have misfired because it said Western countries had provided Kyiv with arms whose shelf life had expired.
"The armed forces of the Russian Federation do not plan or carry out strikes against civilian infrastructure," ‌the Defence Ministry said in a statement.
"According to confirmed reports, the complex of buildings at the Kyiv-Pechersk Lavra was ‌struck by a missile from the American Patriot air defence system. One possible reason for the malfunction of this system could be that Western countries supplied ‌the Kyiv regime with missiles that had expired," it said.