NASA on Wednesday announced two new missions to study Earth’s neighboring planet, Venus.“In today's #StateOfNASA address, we announced two new @NASASolarSystem missions to study the planet Venus, which we haven't visited in over 30 years!” NASA...
Kentucky Attorney General Daniel Cameron (R) is accusing CVS Health of “fueling” the opioid crisis in the state in a lawsuit filed on Wednesday. Cameron sued the health care company in Franklin Circuit Court, alleging that...
French heiress Léone-Noëlle Meyer announced on Tuesday that she has given up her fight to reclaim a work by famed Impressionist painter Camille Pissarro that had been stolen by Nazis and was discovered to be in the possession of the University of...
The Service Employees International Union (SEIU) is preparing to unveil a national town hall series with lawmakers to help secure support for the home care workers targeted in President Biden’s proposed American Jobs Plan.Union organizers are...
Former special counsel Robert Mueller and senior staff members from his investigation into Russian election meddling in 2016 will teach a law school class on their probe at the University of Virginia School of Law. The school announced that...
In January 2020, we wrote about a little-known draft of legal scholarship that could become a big problem for creatives — the American Law Institute’s “Restatement of Copyright.”Since then, our negative view of the endeavor has not changed, but our...
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) on Tuesday took a swipe at former President Trump on Twitter after visiting her unwell grandmother in Puerto Rico and seeing the persisting effects of Hurricane Maria more than three years later."Just over a...
A majority of Americans favor the death penalty despite having some reservations about how it is administered, according to a poll from Pew Research Center released Tuesday.The survey found that 60 percent of U.S. adults favor capital...
A federal appeals court in Washington, D.C., on Wednesday denied a request by a group of landlords to resume evictions, leaving the temporary nationwide eviction moratorium intact for now.The ruling from the D.C. C...
House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer (D-Md.) underwent knee replacement surgery on Wednesday, his office said.Katie Grant Drew, Hoyer's communications director, said that the Maryland Democrat had the procedure done at George Washington University...
A conservative pastor who said vaccines were part of a “mass death campaign” was hospitalized with COVID-19.Rick Wiles, a pastor at a church in Florida, posted a statement on TruNews.com Wednesday that he has come down with COVID-related...
A large group of House Democrats on Wednesday pressed Sen. Jim Risch (Idaho), the top Republican on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, to lift his hold on millions of dollars in aid to Palestinians after a brutal war in the Gaza Strip...
Former Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton on Wednesday applauded Japanese tennis star Naomi Osaka’s courage amid the controversy surrounding her withdrawal from the French Open. Osaka announced Monday that she was...
President Biden on Wednesday exhorted Americans to get vaccinated against COVID-19 if they haven't yet, announcing an aggressive campaign to reach his goal of having 70 percent of adults with at least one shot by July 4.During a speech at the White...
Trading of AMC Entertainment shares was halted several times on Wednesday after the stock, a favorite among Reddit traders, saw a surge in activity and price.AMC stock rallied on Wednesday, with the selling price surging more than 100 percent, CNBC...
President Biden and first lady Jill Biden’s trip to Rehoboth Beach, Del., this week is to celebrate the first lady’s 70th birthday.She turns 70 on Thursday and the couple is leaving for their midweek getaway to the beach town on Wednesday. They are...
PHOENIX - Observers working for Arizona Secretary of State Katie Hobbs (D) are keeping tabs on a mounting number of security flaws and procedural violations committed by ballot counters hired by the Republican-controlled...
Harvard University researchers are voicing opposition to a privacy tool used by the U.S. Census Bureau that obscures information used to draw out congressional districts, arguing that it makes it extremely difficult...
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) on Wednesday knocked Democratic challenger Nikki Fried, just a day after she launched her 2022 gubernatorial campaign.Speaking at a press conference, DeSantis offere...
A group of eight Ohio high school football coaches have been placed on paid leave after they allegedly forced a player to eat pork products despite it being against his religious beliefs.A junior at McKinley Senior High School in Canton was...
A 10-year-old boy was shot during a paintball "drive-by" with his father in Florida, according to an Opa-locka police report.
Indiana University is backtracking on a previous requirement they had for students and faculty to provide proof of vaccination against the coronavirus to attend school in the fall. “As part of the accelerated exemption process, those receiving...
A man who took part in the deadly Jan. 6 Capitol riot and stormed into the Senate chamber while waving a Trump flag has pleaded guilty.The Department of Justice (DOJ) said in a statement released...
A 14-year-old girl and a 12-year-old boy are reportedly facing charges after they opened fire on Florida deputies.Both children ran away from a group home on Tuesday before breaking into an empty house that had a h...
Former President Trump wants conservative media to legitimize his conspiracy theories about the 2020 presidential election being stolen and that he'll soon be reinstated, New York Times reporter Maggie Haberman said...
