A Utah teen is calling on her school district to ease pandemic-era restrictions on school activities in an effort to restore a tradition held sacred by many young people: school dances. Taylorsville Hi...
Three women have been nominated in the best director of a motion picture category of the 2021 Golden Globes in a historic first for the awards.Director Chloé Zhao was nominated Wednesday for her film “Nomadland,” Emerald Fennel for “Promising...
President Biden’s White House does not have the ability to access and release the visitor logs belonging to the Trump White House, White House press secretary Jen Psaki told reporters Wednesday.“We cannot. That is under the purview of the National...
Rep. Adam Kinzinger (R-Ill.) says some of his GOP colleagues have thanked him for speaking out against former President Trump over the past few weeks.Kinzinger, a staunch critic of Trump, was one of 10 House Republicans who voted to impeach&...
The House Committee on Rules is holding a hearing Wednesday afternoon to discuss whether to remove Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) from her committee assignments following controversial past comments and her bac...
The overall state of democracy in the U.S. declined last year, according to an annual ranking published Wednesday by The Economist's Intelligence Unit, which cited the continued erosion of trust in the country’s institutions.The U.S....
Senate Majority Leader Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.) on Wednesday said Democrats are "united" about going big on coronavirus relief after a meeting with President Biden."There's agreement, universal agreement. We must g...
Senate Majority Leader Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.) on Wednesday said Democrats are “united” about going big on coronavirus relief after a meeting with President Biden. "There's agreement, universal agreement. We must go big and bold,” Schumer told...
President Biden on Wednesday honored the late John Sweeney, former leader of the AFL-CIO labor union, calling him “a giant of the American labor movement, and a good man.”Sweeney died Monday at the age of 86. His cause of death has not&...
President Biden is beginning his first term in the Oval Office with the approval of roughly half of Americans, but faces a stark partisan divide as he looks to make good on his vow to unite the country, according to a new Quinnipiac University poll...
Leaders of the House Oversight and Reform Committee requested a closed-door briefing from the Secret Service on Wednesday as officials have cautioned about the threats of domestic extremist violence after the deadly raid on the U.S. Capitol. A...
After a year dominated by the coronavirus pandemic and the 2020 presidential election, films with a political theme or parallels made a strong showing in the Golden Globe nominations, announced Wednesday by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association....
White House press secretary Jen Psaki on Wednesday called talk of a split between President Biden and his top advisers on bipartisan economic relief negotiations "ludicrous.""I’ve seen some of those reports. Many of them are ludicrous...
The head of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is urging football fans to watch the Super Bowl virtually this year or with members of their household amid the coronavirus pandemic."[G]athering virtually or with the people you...
Former Vice President Mike Pence on Wednesday announced the creation of a post-White House transition office near Washington, D.C., but plans to move back to his home state of Indiana later this year....
Former Housing and Urban Development (HUD) Secretary Ben Carson announced Wednesday that he’s launching a conservative think tank. Carson, a former neurosurgeon who served as the Trump administration's only HUD chief, said his think tank, the...
Ford Motor Co. announced on Tuesday that it had designed a clear respirator mask expected to meet the safety standards of an N95 mask to help hearing impaired people read lips while protecting themselves against the coronavirus. The design is...
Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) on Wednesday slammed the push by a handful of GOP lawmakers to remove her from the House Foreign Affairs Committee as a racist and misogynistic attempt to draw false equivalency with the controversies surrounding first-term...
Ben & Jerry's unveiled a billboard and a mural honoring former San Francisco 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick in Tampa, Fla., this week, just days before the Super Bowl is set to take place in the same city on Sunday.On Monday, which was also...
Country music star Morgan Wallen is being removed by CMT and dropped by his record label amid the growing fallout over video showing him using a racial slur.In a Wednesday Facebook post, CMT said it was in the process of erasing Wallen's...
Democratic Rep. Brendan Boyle (Pa.) poked at GOP Rep. Matt Gaetz (Fla.) on Wednesday, saying he backed Gaetz's offer to resign his seat to defend former President Trump in his Senate trial.“I strongly support my colleague Matt Gaetz doing...
Democratic Rep. Brendan Boyle (Pa.) poked at GOP Rep. Matt Gaetz (Fla.) on Wednesday, saying he backed Gaetz's offer to resign his seat to defend former President Trump in his Senate trial."I strongly...
The U.S. Senate will hold a confirmation hearing for President Biden's Environmental Protection Agency administrator nominee, Michael Regan, on Wednesday afternoon.The event is scheduled to begin at 2:00 p.m. EST....
The top elections official in Vermont said Wednesday he is working to make universal ballot mailing permanent after the state used mail voting last year due to the COVID-19 pandemic.Officials mailed ballots to ever...
Former first lady Michelle Obama is set to spread the lessons from her autobiography "Becoming" with a younger generation.Obama's publishing company Penguin Random House announced Wednesday that a young readers edition of her multimillion-...
