After months of wintry weather battered the West Coast with torrential rains and snow, California’s hillsides are now bursting with orange, yellow and purple hues so vibrant that they are visible from space. Tourists are coming in droves to see these so-called “super blooms,” which occur when large amounts of precipitation in natural landscapes intersect with...
Environmentalists and local residents are sounding the alarm after the Biden administration approved two new liquefied natural gas terminals for the Texas coast. The administration has billed the expansion of natural gas exports as a means both to help allies decarbonize and maintain U.S. influence in global energy markets. But local communities say that they're...
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) on Sunday argued Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) — not Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) — is calling the shots in the Republican caucus. “Speaker McCarthy, in order to become Speaker, had to cut some deals we still don't know the details on. Do you think he's actually running his caucus? Or...
Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) said Sunday that President Biden is "afraid" to negotiate about the budget and debt ceiling, blaming him for the U.S. potential default on loans. "And then he's jeopardizing Medicare and Social Security, because, for the first time in a 10-year window, not just the Highway Trust Fund, but Medicare and Social...
California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) is sending the state’s National Guard and its Highway Patrol to help San Francisco fight the trafficking of the synthetic opioid fentanyl in the city. “Two truths can co-exist at the same time: San Francisco’s violent crime rate is below comparably sized cities like Jacksonville and Fort Worth — and...
It is ironic that at a time when the capabilities of artificial intelligence are mesmerizing the world, the regulation of the country’s economic well-being still lags decades behind.
Most Americans in a new poll don’t want former President Trump to run for the White House in 2024, and a majority doesn’t want President Biden to run for reelection, either, as he prepares for an expected campaign launch that could come as early as this week. A new NBC News poll found that 60...
Some Facebook users received a notification Saturday that wasn't a friend request or comment (nor a scam, for that matter). The social media platform informed users they may be eligible for a piece of the massive $725 million settlement.
Sen. Mark Warner (D-Va.) said the federal Texas judge ruling that invalidated the Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA) decades-old approval on the abortion pill mifepristone was "crazy." "I'm not sure how to read it. I do know that it was the judge’s decision in Texas," he told ABC's Martha Raddatz on "This Week." "I think...
Sen. Chris Coons (D-Del.) said Sunday he had confidence in Attorney General Merrick Garland’s conduct in overseeing the federal investigation into Hunter Biden, the president’s son. “President Biden from the days he was campaigning to his first days as president made it clear that he thought restoring the independence of the Department of Justice,” Coons...
The era of free COVID-19 vaccines is coming to a close as the federal government wraps up its public health emergency for the pandemic. The Biden administration and manufacturers are taking steps to maintain vaccine accessibility, particularly for the uninsured, as the shots transition toward commercialization. But while Americans with insurance are still expected to...
Former Vice President Mike Pence said Sunday he would like to see mifepristone, the widely used abortion pill at the center of a high-profile legal battle, off of the market, citing safety concerns. “I’d like to see this medication off the market to protect the unborn,” Pence said on CBS’s “Face The Nation.” “I have...
New Hampshire Gov. Chris Sununu (R) said on Sunday that Republicans want "someone who can win" as their presidential candidate, addubg that former President Trump lost the past three elections for the GOP. "Republicans want someone who can win in November of ‘24. Donald Trump is a loser. He has not just lost once. He lost...
15 years ago, biofuels were thought to be the future. Instead we've developed much better fuel options.
Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-Minn.) said on Sunday that President Biden and Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) should negotiate on the budget and not hold Americans' mortgages "hostage." "You should negotiate on the budget," she told CNN's Dana Bash on "State of the Union." "That is the place to negotiate and they should start those negotiations now, not...
I think we may be starting to see a troubling pattern to come.
Rep. Debbie Dingell (D-Mich.) on Sunday poured cold water on the idea that House Republicans could pass the budget proposal they laid out on the floor last week, seeking to cut spending while raising the debt limit. “I’m concerned about the budget that they put forward ... and I'm not sure [Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.)...
Just over two-thirds of GOP voters in a new poll say they stand behind former President Trump in the aftermath of an indictment in New York City earlier this month and amid other investigations he is facing. The NBC News poll released Sunday found that 68 percent of Republican voters said the investigations are "a...
Over the past few weeks, the American public has been exposed to any number of measures of the nation’s well-being. Inflation, we are told, is down to 5 percent; job opportunities are growing; our gross domestic product (GDP) will be whatever those imaginary numbers say. As New America has pointed out, “[O]ur dominant reporting on...
Fox News has settled a blockbuster case brought by Dominion Voting Systems, but the network’s legal headaches are not over yet. A separate lawsuit from voting systems company Smartmatic similarly accuses Fox of maliciously giving Trump lawyers Sidney Powell and Rudy Giuliani a platform to air false claims about the 2020 presidential election. But unlike Dominion, Smartmatic...
President Biden could kick off his 2024 reelection campaign as soon as Tuesday, according to multiple news reports. That day would be exactly four years since Biden launched his successful 2020 bid after previously failing to secure the Democratic nomination in 1988 and 2008. Biden faces significant challenges in his bid for a second term....
Robert F. Kennedy Jr., who recently announced a 2024 bid for the Democratic presidential nomination, suggested on Saturday that the American middle class was “systematically” wiped out as a result of the COVID-19 lockdowns. “The strength of a nation comes from a strong economy and a vibrant middle class, and we have wiped out the...
The U.S. military has evacuated embassy personnel and their families from Sudan, as fighting continues between the Sudanese army and a paramilitary group. Secretary of State Antony Blinken issued a late night statement confirming that the U.S. Embassy in the city of Khartoum was temporarily suspended and they had "safely evacuated all U.S. personnel and...
New Mexico prosecutors formally dropped charges against actor Alec Baldwin on Friday, as he returned to the set of “Rust” a year and half after the shooting that killed cinematographer Halyna Hutchins. Jason Lewis and Kari Morrissey, the newly appointed special prosecutors in the case, said in a court filing that “new facts were revealed...
The vast majority of U.S. adults have been personally affected by some form of extreme weather in the last five years, according to a new poll released on Saturday. Seventy-one percent in the Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research poll said they had experienced at least one extreme weather event in the last five years. The...
