Vice President Harris attended the first-round March Madness game between Howard University and the University of Kansas on Thursday. Harris appeared on the jumbotron at Wells Fargo Arena in Des Moines, Iowa, during the NCAA men's basketball game between the Howard Bison and the Kansas Jayhawks. Howard, a historically Black college, is Harris’s alma mater,...
The Army is investigating the death of another female soldier who complained of sexual harassment at Fort Hood, Texas, the same base where Army Spc. Vanessa Guillen was murdered three years prior. Pvt. Ana Basalduaruiz, 20, a combat engineer who had served with the 1st Calvary Division for the past 15 months, was found dead on Monday, according...
Under the provisions of the Inflation Reduction Act, the American electrical grid could achieve up to 90 percent of its electricity without carbon emissions by 2030, according to an analysis published Wednesday by the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL). The combination of the Inflation Reduction Act and the 2021 bipartisan infrastructure law could increase the...
TV stars from “Ted Lasso,” “Law & Order” and more are headed to Capitol Hill, pushing for federal funding for the arts just ahead of the White House Correspondents’ Association (WHCA) dinner in Washington. ITK has exclusively learned that Brendan Hunt, who stars on “Ted Lasso” as Coach Beard, Emmy Award-winning “Crazy Ex-Girlfriend” actor Rachel...
The White House on Thursday said that decisions over the safety of medications should be made by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and not by the courts, as a Texas judge considers whether legal access to the abortion pill mifepristone should end. The lawsuit being considered by District Judge Matthew Kacsmaryk challenges the approval of...
Niall Horan is headed in one direction: towards the White House. The “Slow Hands” singer and former One Direction member, will put on a “special performance” at 1600 Pennsylvania Ave. on Friday to mark St. Patrick’s Day, White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre announced. “It doesn’t get better than this!” Jean-Pierre said in a Thursday tweet....
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Two Florida parents with transgender children on Thursday said they plan to challenge in federal court a new state health department rule that bars transgender youth from accessing gender-affirming health care. Florida’s state medical boards last month approved a first-of-its-kind rule prohibiting health care providers from providing puberty blockers, hormone therapy and surgeries to transgender minors, despite...
The co-founder of The Cure says he’s “sickened” by Ticketmaster’s fees to see the band’s upcoming tour, saying that “the artist has no way to limit them.” Robert Smith, the lead singer of the English rock band, responded to fan complaints about exorbitant service costs for tickets to the “Shows of a Lost World” tour,...
Two more train derailments have been reported in Arizona and Washington state amid growing scrutiny of rail safety over the past month. A train carrying corn syrup derailed in western Arizona near the California and Nevada borders on Wednesday evening, The Associated Press reported. The train was initially feared to be carrying hazardous materials, but...
Sen. Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) is calling on federal officials to beef up the security on cards that low-income families use to buy groceries as they increasingly become victims of theft. Wyden urged the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) to increase federal security of the cards that families use to access their benefits through the Supplemental...
The collapse of Silicon Valley Bank (SVB) marked the first “social media, internet-based bank run” in U.S. history, Sen. Mark Warner (D-Va.) said Thursday. During a Senate Finance Committee hearing, Warner placed blame on venture capitalists and other depositors at the bank for coordinating their bank withdrawals over social media and online group chats. That...
White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre is slated to speak with reporters Thursday afternoon in a press briefing. The briefing comes after The White House condemned North Korea for launching an intercontinental ballistic missile test just hours before leaders of South Korea and Japan meet at a Tokyo summit. “The United States strongly condemns the...
Shou Zi Chew, the CEO of TikTok, said in an interview that an eventual sale of the company won’t resolve perceived security risks of the app amid calls from Congress for the Chinese owners of the company to sell their stakes. In an interview with The Wall Street Journal published Thursday, Chew said that the...
The White House on Thursday threw its support behind legislation to repeal the Iraq and Gulf War military force authorizations. The White House said the bill keeps with Biden's "longstanding commitment to replacing outdated authorizations for the use of military force" and "would have no impact on current U.S. military operations," according to a statement...
Former President Trump is offering his thoughts on newly proposed golf ball limitations for professionals, calling the potential rule change a "mess." The United States Golf Association (USGA) and the R&A group — the two governing bodies of professional golf — proposed new limitations on golf balls this week that would reduce the distance that...
Education Secretary Miguel Cardona reiterated the Biden administration’s opposition to book bans in a guest op-ed for the Tampa Bay Times amid the controversy on the topic spurred by restrictions enacted under Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R). In his opinion piece, titled “As US education secretary, I want us to enrich public schools, not ban...
The Georgia grand jury that was tasked with investigating whether former President Trump interfered with the 2020 election has heard a recording of a phone call the former president had with a top state lawmaker, according to a report. The Atlanta Journal-Constitution interviewed five of the 23 jurors in the case, who revealed that they...
Bank officers and directors should owe fiduciary duties to depositors in addition to shareholders.
The White House has condemned North Korea for launching an intercontinental ballistic missile test just hours before leaders of South Korea and Japan meet at a Tokyo summit. "The United States strongly condemns the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea’s (DPRK) Intercontinental ballistic missile test," National Security Council spokesperson Adrienne Watson said in a statement. "This...
The U.S. military released footage of what it described as an "unsafe" and "unprofessional" intercept by a Russian warplane that forced down an Air Force surveillance drone over the Black Sea. The 42-second video footage shows a Russian Su-27 approaching the back of the U.S. MQ-9 drone on Tuesday and dumping fuel as it passes,...
The Federal Communication Commission (FCC), by its own admission, oversees a severe lack of diversity in broadcast television ownership — and claims to want to counter this status quo. Yet recently, the FCC took an unprecedented action to thwart a transaction that would create the largest minority-owned, woman-led media group in American history. The issue...
Weeks after a civil lawsuit was filed against the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum by students from an Upstate Catholic school, who allege they were kicked out of the museum for their beliefs, lawyers said they have reached an agreement which would prevent such incidents from happening in the future.
At least seven people needed medical evaluation Wednesday afternoon after possibly ingesting marijuana gummies at a school in Sun Valley, California officials said.
The civil trial between the families of Gabby Petito and Brian Laundrie won't be happening anytime soon.
