Former Vice President Pence will not appeal a ruling requiring him to testify in front of a grand jury about the events surrounding the Jan. 6, 2021, riots at the U.S. Capitol, aides said Tuesday. A federal judge last week ruled that Pence had to provide testimony about Trump’s efforts to overturn the 2020 election...
As the U.S. government encourages further AI development by the private sector, it’s clear that there's no turning back on the technology.
A dearth of new home listings is hampering mortgage demand even as the benchmark home loan rate continues its downward trajectory, according to data released Thursday by the Mortgage Bankers Association. The Mortgage Composite Index, which measures the volume of mortgage applications, decreased by 4.1 percent from a week earlier, MBA’s data showed. Mortgage rates for...
Story at a glance Structural racism in the form of housing discrimination is associated with modern-day stroke risk for some communities in New York City. That’s according to new research published Wednesday in JAMA Network Open. Previous studies have found a similar association between redlining and current heart disease risks and exposure to polluted air. ...
Maryland lawmakers passed a Safe Harbor bill this week that will protect trafficked children from being charging them with certain crimes. The bill, which was approved by the Maryland General Assembly on Tuesday, will prevent law enforcement authorities from arresting and charging child victims of sex trafficking or human trafficking with crimes they may have...
Louisiana State University (LSU) star forward Angel Reese called out Jill Biden’s “apology” after the first lady initially suggested that the Iowa Hawkeyes, the runner-ups of the NCAA Division I women’s basketball national championship game, should also get a White House visit. “If we were to lose, we would not be getting invited to the...
Former President Trump handed down his gratitude to his supporters, police officers and court attendants after his arraignment in New York, saying they represented the city well and calling them “great patriots.” “The great patriots inside and outside of the Courthouse on Tuesday were unbelievably nice, in fact, they couldn’t have been nicer,” Trump said...
For most of the 19th and early part of the 20th century, the British and Russian Empires engaged in elaborate political, economic, and diplomatic confrontations to control portions of Central Asia. Coined by British spy Arthur Conolly in 1840, the Great Game defined a power rivalry in Central Asia that represented the worst tendencies of...
Brandon Johnson secured the Chicago mayor's office on Tuesday, a big win for the city's teacher union, which backed the progressive against his more centrist opponent. The Democrat vs. Democrat runoff election was dominated by crime issues rather than schools, but Johnson is a former teacher and organizer for the Chicago Teachers Union (CTU), giving...
A nearly century-old law banning abortion in Michigan was repealed by Gov. Gretchen Whitmer (D) on Wednesday. The 1931 law banned abortion, with no exceptions for rape or incest, and called for the prosecution of reproductive care providers. "Today, we're going to take action to ensure that our statutes, our laws reflect our values and...
Fox News morning host Steve Doocy admonished former President Trump for remarks attacking the judge overseeing his criminal case in New York. "It is a very bad look to attack the family," Doocy said during Wednesday's episode of "Fox and Friends." During his speech at Mar-a-Lago, Trump railed against what he said was the “Trump-hating”...
Two-time Georgia gubernatorial candidate Stacey Abrams has become the newest faculty member at the historically Black college Howard University in Washington, D.C. Abrams, known for her voting rights activism, will be the inaugural Ronald W. Walters Endowed Chair for Race and Black Politics. "Stacey Abrams has proven herself an essential voice and eager participant in...
A co-founder of the payment service Cash App was killed on Tuesday in a stabbing in San Francisco, according to multiple reports. The San Francisco Police Department said in a release that officers responded to a report of a stabbing at 2:35 a.m. and found a 43-year-old male victim suffering from apparent stab wounds. Officers...
A member of the Central Park Five has taken out a full-page ad in The New York Times as an open letter to former President Trump after he was arraigned on 34 felony counts related to hush money payments made to adult film star Stormy Daniels ahead of the 2016 election. “Over 30 years ago, Donald Trump...
Former President Trump on Wednesday called for federal law enforcement agencies to be defunded, comments that came one day after he was arraigned in a New York probe. “REPUBLICANS IN CONGRESS SHOULD DEFUND THE DOJ AND FBI UNTIL THEY COME TO THEIR SENSES,” Trump wrote on his Truth Social platform, baselessly claiming that Democrats had...
The U.S. Park Police released body camera footage on Tuesday from two officers involved with a fatal shooting of a teenager last month. The incident occurred on March 18 after a Washington, D.C. Metropolitan Police officer requested assistance over what they identified as a person sleeping inside a running, stolen car in northeast D.C. The...
Sen. Jacky Rosen (D-Nev.) announced on Wednesday that she’s officially running for reelection in the Nevada Senate race as Democrats in the upper chamber face a challenging map in 2024. “I’ve worked with both parties to solve problems and always focused on making a difference in people’s lives,” Rosen said in a minute-and-a-half video announcement. ...
Johnson & Johnson announced on Tuesday that it has agreed to pay $8.9 billion over 25 years to resolve tens of thousands of lawsuits accusing the company’s talc-based baby powder of causing cancer. The company said it had secured the support of the more than 60,000 parties that have filed lawsuits against Johnson & Johnson...
Alone among American courts, the Supreme Court has stubbornly refused to adopt a Code of Conduct
The official end of the COVID-19 emergency seems almost like an afterthought to most of us. But the working poor, who always face grave difficulties, are being subjected to a whole series of serious blows as the emergency draws to a close. Thirty-two states are slashing Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) benefits, affecting over...
Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) on Tuesday took to Fox News to call for donations to former President Trump following his arraignment on criminal charges in Manhattan. “We got one last chance here to straighten this out,” Graham said in an appearance on “Hannity,” adding, “2024 is the most important election in my lifetime. America is...
President Biden will travel to the United Kingdom and Ireland next week to mark the 25th anniversary of the Good Friday Agreement, the White House announced Wednesday. Biden will visit Belfast, Northern Ireland next Tuesday and Wednesday to denote the signing of the accords, which ended the Northern Ireland conflict, known as The Troubles. Northern...
On an atypical, historic day that saw former President Trump walk into a New York courthouse to be arraigned on 34 felony counts, it was business as usual at the White House. President Biden and his team all but ignored the developments that enraptured much of Washington, D.C., on Tuesday as Trump — Biden’s predecessor...
Ex-national security adviser John Bolton on Tuesday blasted the charges filed against his ex-boss, former President Trump, saying the indictment was “even weaker than I feared it would be.” “Speaking as someone who very strongly does not want Donald Trump to get the Republican presidential nomination, I'm extraordinarily distressed by this document,” Bolton said on...
President Biden on Tuesday told Britain's King Charles III that first lady Jill Biden will be attending his upcoming coronation on behalf of the United States, adding that he wants to meet with him despite missing the event. The first lady will lead a delegation to the United Kingdom for the coronation, set to take...
