Amy Coney Barrett was among the justices who presided over a dispute Tuesday that pitted the city of Baltimore against some of the fossil fuel industry’s biggest players, despite her father’s longstanding ties to Shell Oil Company, one of the...
Sen. Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) announced on Tuesday he would place a hold on Alejandro Mayorkas, President-elect Joe Biden’s choice to lead the Department of Homeland Security (DHS).Hawley, who has come under fire recently amid allegations that he played...
Sen. Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) announced on Tuesday he would place a hold on Alejandro Mayorkas, President-elect Joe Biden's choice to lead the Department of Homeland Security (DHS).Hawley, who has come under fire recent...
Dolly Parton is sharing a motivational message for her "COVID covered birthday," telling fans that "love is more contagious than a virus."The "9 to 5" singer marked her 75th birthday on Tuesday. In a post on her website, Parton noted how it is...
The Justice Department charged an Iranian professor with U.S. permanent residency with violating the foreign-agent law by acting as an unregistered agent for Iran. Kaveh Afrasiabi of Watertown, Mass., was charged with two counts of acting and...
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) is looking to kill a Democratic effort to get rid of the legislative filibuster as part of a power-sharing agreement he strikes to divide committee seats and power in the new 50-50 Senate. Once...
"The View" co-host Meghan McCain said Tuesday that President Trump would be remembered mostly for turning Washington, D.C., into a "war zone" for the last days of his presidency.During an episode that aired the last full day of Trump's term, McCain...
Rep. Elise Stefanik (R-N.Y.) on Tuesday blasted Albany newspaper The Times Union for referring to her as “childless,” calling the characterization “truly heinous and wildly inappropriate.”The Times Union published a fictional blog post titled “...
President-elect Joe Biden on Tuesday grew emotional and shed a few tears as he spoke at a military center named after his late son during a sendoff from his home state of Delaware.After the sp...
Mary Trump, President Trump’s niece, said that all of the president’s adult children “need to be shut out” of politics once they leave the White House. Trump, a frequent critic of her uncle, made the comment during an interview with the "MeidasTouch...
Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) described the Parkland, Fla., school shooting as a “false flag” event in a 2018 Facebook post uncovered by Media Matters. Greene made the remark while commenting on another user's comment on her own post. She...
Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) described the Parkland school shooting as a "false flag" event in a 2018 Facebook post uncovered by ...
A majority of Americans want President Trump to be barred from running for office in the future, according to a Harvard CAPS/Harris poll released exclusively to The Hill.Fifty-seven percent of U.S. voters said they...
Documentarian Ken Burns said that the U.S. is in the midst of the fourth “great crisis” in its history as President Trump prepares to leave the White House."We're beset by three viruses, are we not?" Burns said on NPR, citing "a year-old COVID-...
A majority of Americans say they believe President Trump will be remembered negatively in history, according to a Gallup poll released Tuesday on Trump's last full day in office.Sixty-one percent of those surveyed said they think Trump will go...
Vice President Pence is not expected to attend a send-off for President Trump at Joint Base Andrews on Wednesday, joining a host of other GOP officials who have declined to see the president off for his official departure from the White House.Trump...
Vice President Pence is not expected to attend a send off for President Trump at Joint Base Andrews on Wednesday, joining a host of other GOP officials who have declined to see the president off for his official departure...
A majority of polled voters say President-elect Joe Biden's top priorities once he is sworn in Wednesday should be coronavirus vaccinations and passing a new stimulus package, according to a Harvard CAPS-Harris poll...
The 1776 Report — written by the commission ordered by President Trump in response to The New York Times’s 1619 Project — has received scathing rebukes from historians and civil rights groups since its release on Monday, a federal holiday honoring...
The 1776 Report - written by the commission ordered by President Trump in response to The New York Times's 1619 Project - has received scathing rebukes from historians and civil rights groups since its release on Monday,...
Senators on Tuesday spent the last full day of the Trump administration vetting Alejandro Mayorkas, President-elect Joe Biden’s pick to lead a major turnaround at the Department of Homeland Security (DHS).A Cuban immigrant whose mother fled the...
The Washington National Cathedral plans to toll its bell 400 times Tuesday evening in memory of the roughly 400,000 people who have died across the U.S. due to COVID-19.The cathedral, whose doors...
Georgia’s top election official on Tuesday certified Raphael Warnock and Jon Ossoff as the winners of two closely watched Senate runoffs, affirming a pair of Democratic victories that will effectively hand the party control of the upper chamber.&...
President-elect Joe Biden on Tuesday afternoon is slated to hold one final event in Delaware before he heads to Washington D.C. for his inauguration.The event is scheduled to begin at 1:30 p.m. EST.Watch the...
Tiffany Trump announced on Instagram on Tuesday, President Trump's last full day in office, that she is engaged to Michael Boulos, her boyfriend of two years."It has been an honor to celebrate many milestones, historic occasions and create memories...
