Indianapolis Motor Speedway (IMS) is going to allow 135,000 fans to attend the Indianapolis 500 this year.Penske Entertainment Corp. officials announced Wednesday that up to 40 percent of the track’s capacity will be filled with fans on May 30, the...
Portland Mayor Ted Wheeler (D) extended the city's state of emergency for an additional 24 hours on Wednesday, after an unlawful assembly was declared on Tuesday night following the guilty verdict in the murder tria...
A county in Arizona has dropped its plans to set up a federally supported mass vaccination site after state and federal authorities failed to reach an agreement on how to run the site.Officials in Pima County, Ariz...
Social media platforms TikTok and Facebook say rumors spreading about a "National Rape Day" on April 24 are unsubstantiated.TikTok users have been warning others to be careful on Saturday after videos declaring the...
Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam (D) on Wednesday signed a bill legalizing marijuana possession.The bill makes it legal for adults age 21 or older to possess a maximum of one ounce of marijuana and al...
Former gubernatorial candidate and voting rights activist Stacey Abrams (D) went viral on social media for her response to a GOP senator’s request to list all the provisions she objects to in the Peach State’s recent controversial voting law. ...
Former gubernatorial candidate and voting rights activist Stacey Abrams (D) went viral on social media for her response to a GOP senator's request to list all the provisions she objects to in the Peach State's recen...
A bill is headed to the desk of Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee (R) that would allow students and teachers to sue public school systems if they encounter people of the opposite biological sex in a restroom, including transgender...
House Democratic leaders on Wednesday looked ahead to the lower chamber’s vote on Washington, D.C., statehood scheduled for Thursday, as the legislation is poised to make its way to the Senate for a second consecutive session of Congress.The...
A man was fatally shot in Elizabeth City, N.C., on Wednesday when deputies from the Pasquotank County Sheriff's Office were serving a search warrant.Pasquotank County Sheriff Tommy Wooten II held...
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) on Tuesday suggested that the jury in the Derek Chauvin trial may have voted to convict the former Minneapolis police officer who was on trial for the killing of George Floyd because it...
Acting Capitol Police Chief Yogananda Pittman said Wednesday that threats against members of Congress have increased nearly 65 percent in the first four months of this year compared with the same period in 2020.Pittman also reiterated in...
LeVar Burton, the former host of “Reading Rainbow” and a star of “Star Trek: The Next Generation,” is among the final group of “Jeopardy!” guest hosts selected for the rest of season 37 of the show.LeVar Burton is one of five guest hosts&...
The Senate on Wednesday narrowly voted to confirm Vanita Gupta, President Biden's nominee for the No. 3 position at the Department of Justice (DOJ), despite stiff opposition from Republicans who had criticized her civil r...
President Biden called Wednesday for employers to give workers paid leave to get the COVID-19 vaccination while announcing that the U.S. will have administered 200 million coronavirus shots by the end of the day.Biden unveiled a...
President Biden said Wednesday that he expects the United States will share surplus coronavirus vaccine doses with Canada and countries in Central America.“We’re in the process of doing that. We’ve done a little bit of that already. We are looking...
Sen. Lisa Murkowski (Alaska) broke Republican ranks on Wednesday to advance the nomination of Vanita Gupta for associate attorney general. Murkowski joined all Democratic senators in voting to advance Gupta’s nomination 51-49 toward a...
The United States has entered a new phase of its coronavirus vaccination effort, President Biden said Wednesday, as the nation will have administered 200 million coronavirus shots by the end of the day."Today, we did it. Today we hit 200 million...
New York police arrested an alleged stalker over the weekend who was reportedly attempting to break into the Manhattan apartment of pop star Taylor Swift.The Associated Press reported that Hanks Johnson, 52, was arrested Saturday after someone...
Seven House Republicans on Wednesday pledged to reject donations from some of the top tech companies in the U.S. amid mounting scrutiny over the market power the tech giants hold. Rep. Ken Buck (Colo.), the top Republican on the House...
Philonise Floyd, the brother of George Floyd, defended the Las Vegas Raiders on Wednesday after the NFL team drew viral backlash for tweeting "I can breathe" shortly after former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin was...
A majority of Americans on Tuesday said they agreed with the guilty verdict in the murder trial of former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin in the death of George Floyd, according to a USA Today-Ipsos poll. The online survey, which...
White House press secretary Jen Psaki on Wednesday called the fatal police shooting of a Black teenage girl in Columbus, Ohio, “tragic” and said that President Biden has been briefed on the matter.“The killing of 16-year-old Ma'Khia Bryant by...
White House press secretary Jen Psaki on Wednesday called the ...
President Biden will announce a goal of cutting U.S. emissions in half by the year 2030, a person familiar confirmed to The Hill on Wednesday. Biden is expected to announce the updated target under the Paris climate agreement in conjunction...
