This Police Week, consider solutions to make us all safer
These include unarmed responses to nonviolent, non-emergency 911 calls, greater investment in social services, genuine accountability for officer misconduct and gun safety laws.
These include unarmed responses to nonviolent, non-emergency 911 calls, greater investment in social services, genuine accountability for officer misconduct and gun safety laws.
President Biden on Monday announced the nomination of National Cancer Institute (NCI) Director Monica Bertagnolli to lead the National Institutes of Health (NIH). Bertagnolli is a cancer surgeon who has led NCI, a unit of NIH, since October. The top post of NIH has been vacant since Francis Collins left the agency in December 2021....
Kentucky Attorney General Daniel Cameron (R), who's backed by former President Trump, is widening his lead in the contentious Kentucky GOP gubernatorial primary, according to a new poll. An Emerson College Polling/Fox 56 Lexington survey released on Sunday found Cameron receiving 33 percent support among Kentucky Republican likely voters, compared to former U.N. Ambassador Kelly...
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) tweeted out his support for the former Marine charged last week with second-degree manslaughter in the chokehold death of a man on the New York City subway earlier this month. "We must defeat the Soros-Funded DAs, stop the Left's pro-criminal agenda, and take back the streets for law abiding citizens....
The right to earn a living is at the heart of the American Dream. In a free society, few rights are more fundamental — or more essential to a dynamic and prosperous economy. Generations of Americans have depended upon this right: the right to practice your profession and pursue your calling; to be a maker,...
The Supreme Court on Monday announced it will determine whether South Carolina racially gerrymandered one of its congressional districts. A three-judge district court panel in January ordered new maps be drawn after finding the state’s 1st Congressional District, as drawn by Republican state lawmakers, was specifically designed to dilute the power of Black voters. The...
Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) on Monday signaled there had been little progress in debt ceiling negotiations over the weekend, accusing Democrats and the White House of wanting "a default more than a deal." "I still think we're far apart. It doesn't seem to me yet they want a deal, it just seems like they want...
Donald Trump is far and away the leading candidate for Kentucky Republicans, according to a new poll that showed the former president with a 56-point advantage over the rest of the field. Trump secured the support of 70 percent of respondents in a survey from Emerson College Polling/Fox 56 Lexington of Republican primary voters in...
Texas on Sunday sent more migrants to Vice President Harris's Washington residence, just days after the end of Title 42, the pandemic-era rule that allowed officials to quickly expel asylum seekers at the border. A video from a local TV station showed migrants getting off the bus outside the Naval Observatory at about 8:30 p.m....
Former Vice President Mike Pence will travel to New Hampshire this week for a series of speaking engagements as he inches closer to a decision on whether or not to run for president in 2024. Pence will spend Tuesday and Wednesday in the Granite State, which will host the first GOP presidential primary next year....
Rep. Dan Crenshaw is about to try out a new role: first-time father. The Texas Republican announced Sunday that he and wife Tara Crenshaw are expecting a daughter. The baby news came as the 39-year-old lawmaker shared a Mother’s Day message on Instagram, saying that the holiday has always been “a bit difficult” for him after...
Direct file has the potential to benefit millions of taxpayers, but only if lawmakers remove politics and partisanship in favor of good, commonsense policy.
Former President Trump said that he surprised CNN was "traumatized" by the town hall aired last week that sparked criticism among lawmakers and within media circles. "I was amazed to see that they were traumatized by what took place. They were actually traumatized," he added in an interview with The Messenger. "I think that instead...
The world's oldest dog recently celebrated his 31st birthday, according to the Guinness Book of World Records.
Former President Trump remained coy when asked if he agreed with Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis's (R) signing of a six-week abortion ban, continuing to avoid committing to federal abortion action as he seeks the GOP nomination. In an interview published on Monday by The Messenger, Trump did not say whether he believed the six week...
Former President Trump is pushing back on Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis's (R) remarks calling on the GOP to reject a "culture of losing" to win in 2024, saying "Ron is not a winner." "First of all, I'm not at all caught up in the past. And second of all, I'm doing much better against [President]...
Regardless of where you stand on gun control, gun safety and the Second Amendment, this is not the image America wants to project into the world.
A pilot project by the Transportation Security Administration is assessing the use of facial recognition technology at a number of airports across the country.
President Biden said on Sunday that he believes that he will be able to come to a debt ceiling agreement with GOP lawmakers as the deadline to prevent a default looms. “It never is good to characterize a negotiation in the middle of a negotiation,” he told reporters on a bike ride. "I remain optimistic...
The sticker price at America’s priciest colleges is approaching $90,000, a milestone that has inspired fresh debate about whether college is worth the cost. But the numbers tell a different story. The “net” price of college, the amount students and their families actually pay, is going down. Almost no one is paying $90,000. The average student...
President Biden and Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) are set to meet for another round of debt ceiling talks this week, as a deal over raising the borrowing limit remains at a stalemate. This week’s meeting — which has not been formally announced yet — comes after a gathering scheduled for Friday at the White House...
EDITOR'S NOTE: This is the first in a five-part series called "How Florida got so conservative." Florida has become the nerve center of the modern Republican Party. Once the nation’s largest and most volatile swing state, Florida has lurched to the right in recent years, becoming a mecca for the GOP’s most influential luminaries and wealthiest donors. Republicans...
The CEO of the company behind ChatGPT will head to Congress next week as lawmakers’ race to regulate artificial intelligence (AI) and more companies steam ahead with the technology. OpenAI CEO Sam Altman will make his public debut in Congress at a Senate Judiciary subcommittee hearing about oversight of AI as lawmakers seek to better...
Former President Trump increasingly looks like the favorite to win the GOP's presidential nomination, but that strength masks what many Republicans see as a huge weakness against President Biden: Trump's problems with suburban women. All of Trump's vulnerabilities with the key demographic were on high display during a rowdy town hall last week with CNN,...
Satellite images of the Colorado River provided by NASA show the powerful rush of water out of Glen Canyon Dam in late April moved sand down the river -- mission accomplished.