{"id":50789,"date":"2026-10-15T15:43:44","date_gmt":"2026-10-15T15:43:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gpnewswire.com\/news\/lawmakers-from-both-parties-welcome-trumps-decision-to-cancel-livestream-of-firing-squad-execution-live\/"},"modified":"2026-10-15T15:43:44","modified_gmt":"2026-10-15T15:43:44","slug":"lawmakers-from-both-parties-welcome-trumps-decision-to-cancel-livestream-of-firing-squad-execution-live","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gpnewswire.com\/news\/lawmakers-from-both-parties-welcome-trumps-decision-to-cancel-livestream-of-firing-squad-execution-live\/","title":{"rendered":"Lawmakers from both parties welcome Trump\u2019s decision to cancel livestream of firing squad execution \u2013 live"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Democrat Senator Elissa Slotkin called plan to broadcast execution of Nidal Hasan \u2018sick\u2019 and Republican John Curtis said it was \u2018not an effective deterrent\u2019<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p>Q&amp;A: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/community\/live\/2026\/oct\/14\/us-economy-affordability-midterm-elections-republicans-trump\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Will Trump\u2019s economy sink the GOP in the midterms?<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2026\/feb\/17\/sign-up-for-the-breaking-news-us-email-to-get-newsletter-alerts-direct-to-your-inbox?utm_medium=ACQUISITIONS_STANDFIRST&amp;utm_campaign=BN22326&amp;utm_content=signup&amp;utm_term=standfirst&amp;utm_source=GUARDIAN_WEB\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Sign up for the Breaking News US email<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The US government could <strong>spend hundreds of thousands of dollars on a media campaign in South Africa to figure out why more white Afrikaners are not applying to become refugees to the US<\/strong>, as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/donaldtrump\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Donald Trump<\/a> had hoped.<\/p>\n<p>State department officials, according to an August proposal seen by the Guardian, outlined <strong>a roughly $335,000 research and advertising effort <\/strong>after applications to the refugee program \u201ctrended lower than expected\u201d since Afrikaners were allowed to apply directly online in November 2025. The document, written by the US mission in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/southafrica\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">South Africa<\/a> with a department research unit for the embassy in Pretoria, admits officials know little about why.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/live\/2026\/oct\/15\/donald-trump-midterms-rallies-iran-ukraine-starlink-intelligence-fuel-gas-cost-of-living-latest-news-updates\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Democrat Senator Elissa Slotkin called plan to broadcast execution of Nidal Hasan \u2018sick\u2019 and Republican John Curtis said it was \u2018not an effective deterrent\u2019 Q&amp;A: Will Trump\u2019s economy sink the GOP in the midterms? Sign up for the Breaking News US email The US government could spend hundreds of thousands of dollars on a media [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":50790,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-50789","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-travel"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-10-25 11:19:36","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gpnewswire.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50789","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gpnewswire.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gpnewswire.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gpnewswire.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gpnewswire.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=50789"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gpnewswire.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50789\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gpnewswire.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/50790"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gpnewswire.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50789"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gpnewswire.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50789"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gpnewswire.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50789"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}