Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) said she has “absolutely no intention” of watching the video of her husband, Paul Pelosi, being attacked with a hammer at the couple’s San Francisco home in October, after footage of the attack was released Friday. The San Francisco Superior Court also released the 911 call made by Paul Pelosi, video...
A British teenager who posted far-right videos that have been linked to mass shootings in Buffalo, N.Y., and Colorado Springs, Colo., was sentenced to 11 1/2 years on terrorism-related charges in the United Kingdom on Friday, the BBC reported. Daniel Harris, 19, was convicted in December of five counts of encouraging terrorism and one count of...
As Associate Justice Neil Gorsuch notes, "the Insular Cases have no foundation in the Constitution and rest instead on racial stereotypes. They deserve no place in our law.”
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The Associated Press has deleted a tweet giving guidance on AP style that went viral over its inclusion of “the” French as a term to be avoided. The AP Stylebook's Twitter account on Thursday posted recommendations to avoid the use of “the” before certain descriptors "such as the poor, the mentally ill, the French, the...
Police body camera footage and a 911 call from the brutal October 2022 attack on then-Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s (D-Calif.) husband Paul Pelosi in their San Francisco home was made public on Friday. The San Francisco Superior Court released the video and call alongside other evidence after a coalition of news organizations argued they should be...
A woman was recently arrested after posing as a teenager at a New Jersey high school. The woman was identified as 29-year-old Hyejeong Shin by New Brunswick police and was charged with one count of providing fake government documents with the intent to verify one’s age, a third-degree offense. Shin gave a fake birth certificate...
The World Health Organization (WHO) on Friday updated the list of medicines and drugs it recommends to treat exposure to radiological and nuclear emergencies for the first time since 2007. The updated list, which advises nations on how to stockpile for nuclear and radiological accidents and emergencies, is included in a new WHO report reflecting...
To ensure resources are spent on programs that actually work, new governors should rely on evidence.
A federal judge has temporarily blocked a California law intended to prevent doctors from spreading COVID-19 misinformation or disinformation to patients, finding that it is “unconstitutionally vague.” A group of five doctors and two nonprofit advocacy groups sued in November after California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) signed Assembly Bill 2098 into law the month before. ...
Rep. Ruben Gallego (D-Ariz.) compared his Senate run to those of Sens. John Fetterman (D-Pa.) and Raphael Warnock (D-Ga.) on Friday when asked whether there was a lane for a progressive candidate in Arizona. “We’ve litigated this already. This is the same thing they were saying about Fetterman. This is the same thing they were...
The Biden administration released state-by-state data on Friday breaking down who applied for President Biden’s student debt relief program last year. While the program that would give millions of Americans up to $20,000 in student debt relief is being challenged before the Supreme Court, the Biden administration broke down the data of those who seek...
At least three men have been arrested in a murder-for-hire plot allegedly sponsored by Iran that targeted a U.S. journalist and human rights activist who is a prominent critic of Tehran, Attorney General Merrick Garland announced Friday. All three of the defendants are expected to stand trial, Garland added, with two of the men in...
The memories of 20th century events inexorably fade from our collective rearview mirror, leaving us to ponder on this International Holocaust Remembrance Day: What might we still learn from the Holocaust? The question is all the more relevant and poignant because the brave Holocaust survivors on whom we have relied to be the bridge between...
Evusheld, the preventative monoclonal antibody treatment for COVID-19, has lost its emergency use authorization in the U.S. as it is most likely not effective against the strains of the coronavirus currently circulating. The announcement from the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) comes weeks after the agency issued a notice saying it did not expect Evusheld...
The charges filed against the mother of Ashli Babbitt for illegally blocking traffic and disobeying an order from police on the second anniversary of the Jan. 6, 2021, insurrection have been dropped. Gabriel Shoglow-Rubenstein, a spokesperson for the Office of the D.C. Attorney General, said the office declined to pursue the case against Micki Witthoeft. A spokesperson said...
The timing of the debt ceiling debate in the U.S. could not be better from China’s perspective.
Toy and gaming giant Hasbro will cut 15 percent of its global workforce in an effort to cut costs and shake up its business model. The company announced the layoffs after underperforming in the fourth quarter and reporting a 9 percent decline in year-over-year revenue for 2022. Hasbro said its Wizards of the Coast division,...
The Department of Justice (DOJ) said Thursday that it has received a temporary court order blocking two firearms companies from selling a device that officials say converts AR-15-style rifles into machine guns. The DOJ said in a release that the federal government filed a civil complaint last week against the companies, Rare Breed Triggers LLC...
You probably already know this, but the most important career capital you have isn’t your technical skills or academic pedigree. It’s not your title. It’s not even your relationships. It’s your reputation. It’s what you’re known for. It’s what others believe to be true about your character, personality, skills, competencies and values. A great reputation...
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has issued draft guidance to change its policies on donating blood, moving away from time-based deferrals for men who have sex with men and instead proposing "individual risk-based questions" to reduce the potential spread of HIV through transfusions. Under current FDA guidelines for donating blood, men who have sex...
Sen. John Kennedy (R-La.) said the GOP will not push to cut Social Security, while taking a shot at embattled Rep. George Santos (R-N.Y.), as members of Congress work to try to reach a deal to raise the federal government’s debt ceiling. “Not even George Santos would make up a whopper like that,” Kennedy told...
President Biden on Friday confirmed that Ron Klain will step down as chief of staff and be replaced by Jeff Zients, with a transition event to be held next week. Biden made official what had been reported last week, thanking Klain for his service and crediting him with helping to achieve major accomplishments during the...
Nielsen's year-end rankings are in, and the fourth season of Netflix's hit series "Stranger Things" leads the pack as the most-streamed show of 2022.
Memphis Police Chief Cerelyn Davis on Friday said that the video of the incident that led to Tyre Nichols’s death is “about the same, if not worse” than footage of the 1991 beating of Rodney King in Los Angeles. Davis said in an interview on “CNN This Morning,” ahead of the video’s expected release later...
