President Biden is praising Damar Hamlin’s “courage” and “resilience,” as he met with the Buffalo Bills player at the White House on Thursday. The 25-year-old football safety — who experienced cardiac arrest during an NFL game in January — was seen smiling alongside Biden in a photo posted on the president’s Twitter account. “Damar Hamlin’s...
Joint Base Andrews was placed on lockdown on Thursday, following reports of an active shooter. “An armed individual has been reported near base housing,” the base said in a Facebook post. “Stay away from base housing. Initiate Lockdown Procedures.” The base, which is located in Prince George's County, Md., said a white male in a purple...
The White House on Thursday downplayed any rift with Sen. Joe Manchin (D-W. Va.) after the senator penned an op-ed in The Wall Street Journal chastising the Biden administration for how it is implementing a key piece of legislation passed last year. Manchin on Wednesday wrote that he was concerned the Inflation Reduction Act was...
President Biden will veto a GOP-led effort to block a local police accountability law in Washington, D.C., if it reaches his desk, the White House confirmed Thursday. Press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre told reporters that Biden plans to block the measure, known as a resolution of disapproval, if it passes Congress. The measure targets the Comprehensive...
Mark Russell, the bowtie-wearing comedian known for playing the piano while packing a political punch with his jokes, has reportedly died at the age of 90. The longtime performer died Thursday at his home in Washington, D.C., due to prostate cancer, according to The New York Times. The Buffalo, N.Y.-born satirist worked his way up the...
The White House on Thursday rejected espionage charges made by Russia against Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich, calling the claims “ridiculous.” “What I can say is the charges against him are ridiculous, we have been very clear about that,” press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre told reporters Thursday. “Those are ridiculous and they’re not accurate.” Jean-Pierre would...
The cost of attending Ivy League universities is nearing $90,000 a year as high school students are receiving their acceptance letters to the highly competitive institutions. Cornell University most recently announced a hike in tuition prices that brings the school to one of the closest to the $90,000 mark. The university said Monday it would...
The firearm homicide rate in the U.S. surged during the COVID-19 pandemic, reaching its highest level in the country since 1994, according to a new report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). During the pandemic, firearm homicides spiked by nearly 35 percent, according to the CDC report. The increase also widened disparities...
The Department of Defense (DOD) on Thursday launched a website to accompany its "Hack the Pentagon" program in order to scale and provide additional resources for the program, the DOD's Chief Digital and Artificial Intelligence Office (CDAO) announced. The program itself, launched in 2016, invites security researchers and "ethical hackers" to test the Pentagon's cybersecurity,...
Congressional Democrats on Thursday plan to reintroduce a landmark resolution to strengthen civil rights protections for transgender and nonbinary Americans amid a tidal wave of state and federal measures that target them. The Transgender Bill of Rights, slated to be introduced by Rep. Pramila Jayapal (D-Wash.) and Sen. Ed Markey (D-Mass.) ahead of Transgender Day...
President Biden on Thursday called on federal regulators to consider imposing stronger safeguards on the banking industry in the wake of the failure of Silicon Valley Bank, in part by reversing Trump-era rollbacks. Biden urged federal banking agencies, in consultation with the Treasury Department, to consider a set of reforms that the White House said would...
Nearly 8 in 10 Americans said in a new poll that they would oppose the federal government raising the full retirement age for Social Security from 67 to 70. In a new Quinnipiac University poll published Thursday 78 percent of respondents said they would oppose the move, while 17 percent of those surveyed said they...
The White House is set to go on offense against congressional Republicans over the debt ceiling in the coming days, as members of Congress prepare to leave town for a two-week recess. The White House on Thursday will release fact sheets individualized for all 50 states, plus the District of Columbia, outlining how budget cuts...
Jacob Chansley, the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol rioter better known as the “QAnon Shaman,” was released from federal prison early and transferred to a halfway house on Wednesday. The Bureau of Prisons said Chansley was moved to "community confinement." The term can either refer to home confinement or a halfway house, but Albert Watkins, Chansley’s...
Progressive lawmakers are urging President Biden to use his executive powers in the White House to enact their top objectives ahead of the next election. The Congressional Progressive Caucus, the leading coalition of liberals in the House, outlined areas where they believe Biden can sign actions to improve conditions for Americans around workers rights, living expenses,...
White House National Security spokesman John Kirby said Thursday that the Biden administration is working to gain access to Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich, who was arrested in Russia on charges of espionage. “We’re doing everything we can right now to learn more about Evan’s detention; we’re doing everything we can to try to...
The Senate on Wednesday night passed a GOP-led resolution to end the COVID-19 national emergency, and President Biden has riled Democrats with his plans to sign it. Experts say the end of the emergency will have a “limited impact,” despite the White House warning earlier this year it “would create wide-ranging chaos and uncertainty throughout...
Indigenous communities carry centuries of traditional knowledge about their land and, in many cases, embody cultures that view nature as sacred.
White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre is slated to hold a press briefing Thursday afternoon. The briefing comes after a deadly shooting at a private Christian school in Nashville, Tenn. this week, where a 28-year-old suspect with multiple guns killed three children and three adults before being fatally shot by police. President Biden has blasted GOP lawmakers for inaction and has...
Thanks to wet weather patterns that drenched parts of the West this past week, drought conditions across the region continue to subside, federal meteorologists declared on Thursday. “Another week with massive drought improvements out West,” the National Integrated Drought Information System (NIDIS) tweeted. “Every state in the region saw drought shrink.” Just 48.9 percent of Nevada and...
Sen. John Hickenlooper is opening up about his experiences as a late-life dad, pointing to his infant as proof that miracles can happen. "I think in a funny way, by having a child so late in life, I'm like the proof that everybody has at least one more miracle inside them," the 71-year-old Colorado Democrat...
The White House on Thursday cautioned Americans against traveling to Russia in the wake of reports that Russian authorities had detained a Wall Street Journal reporter. "We are deeply concerned by the troubling reports that Evan Gershkovich, an American citizen, has been detained in Russia," press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said in a statement. The White...
Nearly 7 in 10 Americans said in a new survey that they are worried they will not have enough money to retire comfortably. The Quinnipiac poll found that 68 percent of American respondents are either very concerned or somewhat concerned that they will not have enough money to "live comfortably during retirement." Additionally, 33 percent...
Christian music singer Steven Curtis Chapman said Nashville school shooting victim Katherine Koonce, who was the head of the private Christian school, would “move towards, step into trouble, pain, hard things” in order to help others. Chapman, the most awarded Christian artist ever, spoke to Anderson Cooper about his close friend in an interview for...
A federal judge in Texas struck down a key provision of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) that requires insurers and employers to cover preventive services for free, including cancer screenings and HIV drugs. The ruling by Judge Reed O’Connor of U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas — who previously struck down the...
