Dan Snyder, the embattled owner of the NFL’s Washington Commanders, has agreed in principle to sell his stake in the franchise for $6 billion, the most ever for a sports franchise. A source confirmed to The Associated Press on Thursday that the agreement is in place, while another source told the newswire that an agreement...
Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas failed to disclose a 2014 real estate deal he made with a wealthy Republican donor who also paid for lavish trips for him over the years, ProPublica reported on Thursday. The outlet reported that a company belonging to Texas billionaire Harlan Crow bought a series of properties in a row...
Pentagon press secretary Brig. Gen. Patrick Ryder on Thursday called the leak of a cache of classified documents online a “deliberate criminal act,” prompting the Defense Department to reassess how it allocates such information. “We continue to review a variety of factors as it relates to safeguarding classified materials — this includes examining and updating distribution lists, assessing how and where...
A California House Democrat defended Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) amid calls for her to resign over her health, saying that she should be allowed to finish her term. Rep. John Garamendi said in a statement on Thursday that he does not believe that Feinstein needs to resign and argued that she is continuing to serve...
Twitter is launching a program to let users offer their followers paid subscriptions to content, an apparent revamp of the platform’s old “Super Follows” monetized subscription tool. Twitter CEO Elon Musk on Thursday invited users to “apply to offer your followers subscriptions of any material, from longform text to hours long video!” Musk said that,...
Rep. Michael McCaul (R-Texas) said the decision by the Chinese government to sanction him over his trip to Taiwan was a “badge of honor” after the Republican congressman met with Taiwanese President Tsai Ing-wen last week. “Being sanctioned by the Chinese Communist Party is a badge of honor,” McCaul said in a statement. “Nothing will...
A bipartisan group of senators is leading the effort to strengthen and modernize the program that reaches 67 million Americans each month.
Peter Navarro lost his bid to block an order that requires him to hand over hundreds of emails sent during his tenure as a White House adviser during the Trump administration to the National Archives. A three-judge panel on the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals determined that “there is no public interest in Navarro’s retention...
Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell (Ky.) on Thursday announced he would return to the Capitol on Monday for the first time in more than five weeks after suffering a concussion at a private dinner in early March. McConnell tweeted that he would be in the Capitol when the Senate returns from the two-week April recess....
A group of GOP lawmakers has introduced legislation that would bar any state or local prosecutor from using federal funds to investigate a president and singles out Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg’s (D) office with a bill that would force it to return federal funding. The legislation — the Accountability for Lawless Violence In our...
Vice President Harris on Thursday blasted an appeals court decision that upheld part of a ruling to invalidate the Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA) decades-old approval of the abortion medication mifepristone. Harris, who has been the White House's leading voice on the fight for abortion access, warned that the lawsuit to roll back access to...
Former President Trump is in New York on Thursday for his second deposition in a fraud lawsuit spearheaded by New York Attorney General Letitia James (D). Trump is returning to New York after appearing last week in Manhattan for his arraignment on 34 felony counts from the local district attorney related to hush money paid to...
Attorney General Merrick Garland on Thursday said the Department of Justice (DOJ) will ask the Supreme Court to pause a ruling that would roll back changes that make it easier to access mifepristone, the common abortion pill. U.S. District Judge Matthew Kacsmaryk last week ruled that the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) violated federal standards when it...
Opioid overdose prevention must include making naloxone widely available (at no cost when possible) and enabling regular citizens to administer this life-saving drug through education and training.
Russia may be willing to discuss a prisoner swap for detained Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich, but only after a Russian court issues a verdict on the allegation that he was working as a spy, a top Russian diplomat said Thursday. Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergey Ryabkov told Russia’s state-run news agency Tass that...
A state senator in California has introduced a bill that would help locate Black women and children that are missing in California. Introduced last month, SB 673 would establish the Ebony Alert notification system. Like the Amber Alert for missing children, the Ebony Alert would give law enforcement the ability to request that an alert...
Torrential rains in south Florida forced Fort Lauderdale’s airport to close and led to widespread flooding after nearly a foot of precipitation fell in the span of a few hours on Wednesday, with forecasters predicting even more on Thursday. The rainfall made Fort Lauderdale declare a state of emergency, as flooding stalled cars and stranded...
Remember when Donald Trump told us that we were going to win so much after he’s elected that we’d actually get tired of winning? That was then. Now, I’m guessing more than a few Republicans have grown tired — not of winning, but of losing — and are more than a little uneasy about the...
President Biden is set to announce on Thursday an expansion of Medicaid and the Affordable Care Act (ACA) insurance exchanges to include coverage for recipients of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program, according to an Associated Press report. The measure will be a significant expansion for the DACA program, which allows some Dreamers...
Vice President Harris is hitting the daytime TV talk show circuit, with an appearance on “The Jennifer Hudson Show.” The VP will sit down with Hudson on April 20, the show announced on Thursday. The booking marks the “first time an elected national leader will be featured as a guest” on the syndicated chatfest hosted...
As a kid she had dreams of being a fighter pilot, and now Brianna Keilar is getting ready for takeoff with a new show at CNN. Keilar is one of three anchors — alongside Boris Sanchez and Jim Sciutto — taking the helm of “CNN News Central,” the new 1 to 4 p.m. programming block...
The White House on Thursday said that it’s "clear" that National Public Radio (NPR) is an independent news organization after the outlet quit Twitter over CEO Elon Musk’s move to label it as state-affiliated media. “I’m not going to comment on Twitter’s content moderation, but I will say this: As it relates to NPR, it...
Rep. Ro Khanna (D-Calif.) on Thursday said the suggestion from Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) that she be temporarily replaced on the Senate Judiciary Committee was “a step,” but said the process to have her replaced was “not that simple” after he called for the 89-year-old senator to resign on Wednesday. “It’s a step, but as...
A slight majority of adults believe the Texas ruling that put the Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA) approval of an abortion pill in jeopardy was motivated by politics, according to a new poll. A Reuters-Ipsos poll found that 56 percent of respondents said the decision from U.S. District Judge Matthew Kacsmaryk against the FDA’s yearslong...
For Speaker Kevin McCarthy, the honeymoon may be over. The California Republican endured a torturous road to the Speakership in January but recovered quickly with a legislative agenda that’s highlighted GOP priorities, planted a marker on China policy, thrown Democrats on defense and even steamrolled President Biden into signing a contentious measure overturning Washington, D.C.’s,...
