{beacon} Evening Report {date('EEEE, MMMM d',time("now"))} © AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster, File Former Trump probe prosecutor invokes the Fifth at deposition Mark Pomerantz, a prosecutor who resigned from the Manhattan District Attorney Office's investigation into former President Trump last year, invoked the Fifth Amendment at a House Judiciary Committee deposition Friday. Pomerantz characterized...
A Food and Drug Administration (FDA) advisory panel has approved an epinephrine nasal spray, clearing a hurdle for the product designed to help those with severe, potentially life-threatening allergic reactions. The panel, the Pulmonary-Allergy Drugs Advisory Committee, voted 17-5 on Thursday to support the approval of Neffy, a spray that would give users a 2-milligram...
Several Tesla owners filed a class-action lawsuit against the electric car company on Friday, alleging that its automatic software updates have depleted their cars’ batteries or rendered them inoperable. The owners of the Tesla Model S and Model X cars claim the software updates have occurred “without warning” and reduced the driving range of the cars...
Former Trump prosecutor Mark Pomerantz invoked his Fifth Amendment rights during his deposition before the House Judiciary Committee on Friday, slamming the GOP-led panel’s investigation as “political theater” in his opening statement. Pomerantz, who investigated Trump at the Manhattan District Attorney’s Office, said he was appearing before the committee “as required” because “I respect the...
Twitter CEO Elon Musk has announced Linda Yaccarino, a former head of advertising for NBCUniversal, will take over for him overseeing the social media platform after six months of Musk in charge. Musk first indicated he hired someone to replace him in a tweet on Thursday, months after a majority in a Twitter poll he...
New Hampshire Gov. Chris Sununu (R) criticized the Republican voters from his home state who appeared at CNN’s town hall with former President Trump for their reaction to his mocking of author E. Jean Carroll. “It was embarrassing,” Sununu told MSNBC’s Jen Psaki in an interview set to air Sunday. “The audience was absolutely filled with...
The Oscar-winner's daughter cleared the air on Instagram after multiple reports suggested Foxx's condition was stagnant.
President Biden plans to nominate former House Democratic campaign chief, Rep. Sean Patrick Maloney (D-N.Y.), for representative of the United States to the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD). Maloney lost his seat as the House flipped to GOP control last year, while he was the helm of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee. Biden’s...
Whether it’s growing as a young leader, winning a championship, or securing a college scholarship, sports open doors for young girls. They build confidence, develop skills to work through difficult problems, hone life-long friendships, and build healthy habits. But today, these doors are being slammed shut because of progressive gender ideology. Girls’ locker rooms have...
Dan Meyer, the chief of staff to House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.), will be retiring from his role next month after four years in the position. McCarthy’s office announced Meyer’s retirement in a release on Friday, praising him for his work in the House and in the private and public sectors. The release states that...
A migrant child has died in U.S. custody and a medical investigation conduced by the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has been opened, officials confirmed Friday. “It is sad news, it is deeply saddening to hear and we are certainly aware of the tragic loss and our hearts go out to the family,”...
New Hampshire Gov. Chris Sununu (R) has dropped his opposition to legalizing marijuana in the state, putting forward a pathway for a legalization bill to be approved. Sununu said in a Medium post on Friday that he previously said now was not the time to legalize marijuana as other states “rushed” to legalize it with...
While the United States has made important strides towards expanding insurance coverage in recent years, policymakers will need to take care to avoid backward slides,
Two Michigan middle schoolers are suing for the right to wear "Let's Go Brandon" sweatshirts. An Iowa high schooler posed next to the governor with "I Read Banned Books" emblazoned on his chest. And a Massachusetts seventh grader's clothing insists "There are only two genders." U.S. students are making their voices heard with political clothing...
Biden administration officials said Friday they have yet to see an uptick of migrants at the southern border in the wake of Title 42's termination, but asylum officers have been told they must work throughout the weekend to help process claims. While officials expected to see an increase of migrants at the border following the...
Two buses of migrants from Texas arrived in New York City on Friday morning, ahead of an expected surge in arrivals in the wake of Title 42’s expiration. About 90 migrants from countries such as Colombia, Venezuela and Ecuador arrived on the buses at the Port Authority Bus Terminal, just hours after the pandemic-era rule...
At the end of March, House Republicans passed H.R. 1, a shameless giveaway of handouts and loopholes to the oil, gas, and mining industries, fittingly dubbed the Polluters Over People Act. While oil companies’ record-breaking profits make it clear that they’re not an industry under duress, Republicans continue to push legislation to gut our most...
Rep. Robert Garcia (D-Calif.) introduced a resolution Friday that would formally recognize and celebrate diverse family units across the nation. The introduction of the resolution, which Garcia’s office said is a “direct response” to comments made during a House hearing last month by Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) that suggested non-biological mothers are not actual...
Elon Musk announced on Friday that former NBCUniversal advertising chief Linda Yaccarino will take over as CEO of Twitter. “I am excited to welcome Linda Yaccarino as the new CEO of Twitter!” he tweeted. “@LindaYacc will focus primarily on business operations, while I focus on product design & new technology. Looking forward to working with Linda...
President Biden announced Friday a slate of key Federal Reserve nominees as the central bank battles inflation with a fragile economy and financial system hanging in the balance. Biden will nominate Federal Reserve Governor Philip Jefferson to serve as vice chairman of the Fed board and economist World Bank U.S. executive director Adriana Kugler to...
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The party of Lincoln, Eisenhower, Reagan and Bush is no longer Republican. It has become unmoored, unprincipled-ish.
All 13 Democrats from New York's congressional delegation called on the Biden administration Friday to speed up work permits for asylum seekers. "We write to urge the administration to ease the undue delays in granting work authorizations to asylum seekers. Many asylum seekers want to work and give back to their new communities," wrote the...
Lawmakers are urging the Biden administration to expedite the nomination of a new national cyber director because the delay could slow the implementation of the national cybersecurity strategy. In a letter to Biden, Sen. Angus King (I-Maine) and Rep. Mike Gallagher (R-Wis.), who co-chair the Cyberspace Solarium Commission, said the administration should move quickly on...
Without resorting to the 14th Amendment, there is a statutory debt limit “escape clause” that has gone unnoticed.
