Rusty Bowers, the Republican Speaker of the Arizona House of Representatives, said that Rep. Andy Biggs (R-Ariz.), the former chair of the House Freedom Caucus, called him on the morning of Jan. 6 asking him to support the decertification of electors. “He asked if I would sign on both to a letter that had been...
Story at a glance Hawaii Gov. David Ige (D) late last week signed into law a trio of bills protecting the fundamental rights of LGBTQ+ Hawaiians. One of the measures prevents health insurance companies from discriminating against transgender people seeking gender-affirming medical care. A second piece of legislation states that Hawaiian citizens may not be...
Arizona House Speaker Rusty Bowers (R) refuted former President Trump’s description of a phone call between the two men after the 2020 presidential election, telling the members of the select House committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021 attack on the U.S. Capitol he never told Trump the election was rigged. Rep. Adam Schiff (D-Calif.), a...
Arizona House Speaker Rusty Bowers (R) on Tuesday said he repeatedly pressed Rudy Giuliani for proof of his claims of election fraud after the 2020 election, but added that Giuliani failed to produce any. “My recollection, he said, ‘We’ve got lots of theories, we just don’t have the evidence,’” Bowers told the House select committee...
Story at a glance Plaintiffs accuse the Ford Motor Company of knowingly dumping toxic sludge onto land in northern New Jersey, then failing to disclose the extent of the pollution upon selling the areas. The land is home to some 200 members of the Ramapough Lenape Nation. Unhealthy levels of toxins were found in water,...
Pundit Piers Morgan says the Republican Party should move on from former President Trump and focus on sending Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) to the White House in 2024. "If you were scripting a perfect Republican presidential candidate, the list of preferred requirements would read something like DeSantis’ resume," Morgan wrote in an op-ed published...
President Biden will deliver remarks on COVID-19 vaccines for young children on Tuesday afternoon. The event is scheduled to begin at 3:45 p.m. ET. Watch the video above.
When Lori Garver was tapped by President-elect Obama to become NASA's No. 2 official in 2009, she saw it as a chance to usher in a new era of space exploration for the U.S. and transform the agency into a more efficient bureaucracy. Garver, who grew up enamored with space and politics after witnessing Neil...
The mask-optional show must go on — Broadway theaters say they will lift their mask mandates beginning next month. The owners and operators of Broadway’s 41 theaters said Tuesday that their performance spaces would adopt a “’mask optional’ policy for the month of July.” The Broadway League said in an announcement that audience members are...
Billie Jean King and Jill Biden are teaming up to mark the 50th anniversary of Title IX at a celebration in Washington. The first lady and the tennis champ’s participation in the Wednesday event at Capitol One Arena was announced Tuesday by the White House. Title IX, the federal civil rights law that prohibited sex-based discrimination...
George Takei is calling out the Texas Republican Party for labeling homosexuality “abnormal,” saying the move reeks of “neo-fascist dehumanization.” The “Star Trek” actor, who married husband Brad Takei in 2008, changed his Twitter profile this week after Republicans in the Lone Star state adopted a new platform over the weekend that referred to homosexuality...
A former Georgia election worker is set to testify in the House select committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol riot’s latest public hearing on Tuesday as the panel seeks to show former President Trump’s pressure campaign on state officials to overturn the 2020 presidential election results and his role in the riot. That official,...
The House committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021 attack on the U.S. Capitol is probing new sources for information on former President Trump, his children and former Vice President Mike Pence, issuing a subpoena to a documentary filmmaker. The subpoena to Alex Holder, first obtained by Politico, asks not only for footage he captured as...
Medicare could have saved up to $3.6 billion in 2020 if it bought generic drugs at the prices paid by billionaire entrepreneur Mark Cuban’s drug company, according to a new study. The study from researchers at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston, published in the journal Annals of Internal Medicine, suggests inefficiencies in the...
Tesla CEO Elon Musk said on Tuesday that he thinks the United States will likely fall into a recession in the near future. “A recession is inevitable at some point,” Musk told Bloomberg Editor-in-Chief John Micklethwait at the Qatar Economic Forum in Doha. “As to whether there is a recession in the near term," he...
Dave Chappelle says he’s opting against renaming a space at his alma mater after himself — as he defended a past controversial Netflix comedy special — instead choosing to give a nod to artistic freedom. “We call it the Theater for Artistic Freedom and Expression,” Chappelle told WRC-TV on Monday of the theater at Washington’s...
Millions of people have been under heat watches in the U.S.
However painful to acknowledge, a nation with a horrific human rights record is key to our interests.
President Biden could soon make a decision on whether to support a federal gas tax holiday - but what does that mean?
Elon Musk said in an interview on Tuesday that he is “undecided” about a possible 2024 reelection bid by former President Trump - comments that come after the Tesla executive said that he was leaning toward Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R). “I think I’m undecided at this point about that election,” Musk said in an...
Although the path-breaking labor agreement within U.S. Soccer has been greeted as a sign of progress, it sends exactly the wrong message to the women and girls of America.
“The Late Show” host Stephen Colbert defended his staff at the top of Monday’s episode after they were arrested by Capitol Police last week, saying the seven people charged with unlawful entry were in reality guilty of nothing more than “high jinks with intent to goof.” “Last week I heard from my old colleague Triumph...
Ginni Thomas’s close ties to members of the powerful circle of conservative legal elites centered around her husband, Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, has raised questions about the role their overlapping professional network played in her effort to overturn former President Trump’s loss in the 2020 election. In a new book out Tuesday,...
Former Vice President Mike Pence said Monday that he won’t let Democrats use the Jan. 6, 2021, attack at the Capitol to “distract attention” from their “failed agenda,” in some of his first comments since the committee investigating the Capitol riot held a hearing centered on his role leading up to and on that day....
GOP Reps. Jim Jordan (Ohio) and Rodney Davis (Ill.) are asking Capitol Police for more information after several staffers from “The Late Show with Stephen Colbert” were arrested at the complex last week. In a letter sent on Monday, the lawmakers told Capitol Police Chief J. Thomas Manger that the seven individuals on Colbert’s crew...
