However, analysts were skeptical and called for more details on the legal and financial structure. It is unclear whether a short-term reduction in gasoline prices can be expected, as building the necessary infrastructure could take years. David Goldwyn, president of Goldwyn Global Strategies, said it is questionable whether a U.S. government lease would be sustainable under Venezuelan law. There is “no precedent for the U.S. government entering into a lease to operate oil fields.”
US government wants to sell part of Yosemite Park
The administration of US President Donald Trump According to a media report, has been examining the possibility of selling a small piece of land in Yosemite National Park to a private real estate company for more than a year. The government has examined several options for selling an approximately 400-meter-wide strip of the world-famous California national park to the real estate developer Kingsbarn Realty Capital, based in the neighboring state of Nevada, the US news website “Notus” reported on Friday.
Postal voting: Trump administration appeals court ruling
In the legal dispute over changed rules for postal voting in the USA, the government of US President Donald Trump is moving to the next court. As expected, she is challenging the preliminary injunction in an appeals court, with which a judge had put large parts of the plans on hold. This emerges from the court documents.
A few days before election documents are to be sent out in the first states, the legal dispute is entering the next round. The new rules essentially stipulate that the US Postal Service (USPS) will play a central role in controlling postal voting. States should submit the design of their envelopes for postal voting to the post office for approval. In addition, the postal service should only deliver the documents to citizens who are listed on a voter register provided by the states.
ICE arrests right-wing provocateur
The right-wing extremist British provocateur Milo Yiannopoulos has been arrested by the American immigration agency ICE Airport of Louisiana arrested. He came to the USA in 2019, but then stayed longer than his visa allowed. He should be deported.
Yiannopoulos was long known as a prominent face of American right-wing extremists. The openly gay Brit spread hate speech against women, blacks, elites and liberals. It was only when an interview in 2017 circulated in which he defended sex between men and boys that the scene largely turned its back on him: Yiannopoulos lost his book contract with the publisher Simon & Schuster, and the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC Conference) removed him from the list of speakers.
