Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) has changed her position on the public release of the tapes documenting the Jan. 6, 2021, insurrection, warning Friday that their release could “put the security of the Capitol at risk.” Greene said in an interview on the right-wing channel Real America’s Voice that releasing the video footage publicly would...
About half of all Republicans oppose banning books in schools, even as many GOP lawmakers throughout the country have implemented laws restricting materials being taught in the classroom, according to a poll released Friday. The NPR/Ipsos poll shows 51 percent of Republicans oppose state lawmakers passing laws to ban certain books and remove them from...
The White House on Friday pushed back on bipartisan votes in the House and Senate to block President Biden's student debt relief plan, arguing the program is popular with Americans. A measure to block the plan passed the Senate this week in a 52-46 vote and cleared the GOP-majority House in a party-line vote last month, with...
The owner of a Georgia gun shop said he is shutting down his store in the wake of several recent mass shootings that took the lives of children. “I’m not against the Second Amendment,” owner Jon Waldman told NBC News. “But just with my conscience, I can’t sell it because I don’t know who it’s...
Former Los Angeles Dodgers MVP Steve Garvey is considering a bid for Sen. Dianne Feinstein’s (D-Calif.) Senate seat after she retires following the 2024 elections, The Los Angeles Times reported Thursday. Several GOP state party insiders and operatives told the outlet that Garvey, who played first base for the Dodgers and San Diego Padres for...
The reproductive rights landscape has shifted throughout the Americas in the last few years, with progress to decriminalize and ensure sexual and reproductive health. However, there are still too many countries where total abortion bans are fatal for pregnant women. This could soon change as the Inter-American Court of Human Rights — the highest judicial...
Attorneys for former President Trump have not found the classified document he was recorded discussing taking from the White House, CNN reported Friday. Two sources told the outlet that the attorneys provided material to the FBI in response to a subpoena in March related to the document Trump discussed, but they did not find the...
A hostile letter from a group of “anti-woke” U.S. state attorneys general is targeting major insurers that have signed up to the Net-Zero Insurance Alliance.
Former President Trump on Friday argued he should be cleared of wrongdoing for his handling of classified documents after the Justice Department said it would not bring charges against former Vice President Mike Pence on the issue, despite vast differences in their cases. "Just announced that they are not going to bring charges against Mike...
Interior Secretary Deb Haaland on Friday announced new protections for New Mexico’s Chaco Culture National Historical Park, barring oil and gas development for 20 years within a 10-mile radius of the area. The announcement follows what the department said was an extensive period of consultation between tribal nations and Haaland, the nation’s first Senate-confirmed Indigenous...
President Biden reportedly dispatched CIA Director Bill Burns to Beijing last month to meet with Chinese officials and emphasize Washington’s pursuit of maintaining open lines of communications in intelligence channels, the Financial Times reported. Burns’s trip to China demonstrates the influence the Chinese national security establishment is having on its internal, strategic policy deliberations, said...
Fitch Ratings, a prominent credit ratings agency, said Friday that it will keep the nation’s top credit rating on its “negative watch” list, after Congress succeeded in passing a bipartisan bill to raise the debt limit — but only days from a key deadline to prevent a national default. In a note Friday afternoon, the...
When the U.S. Supreme Court struck down the federal ban on sports betting in 2018, it gave individual states the power to license legal sportsbooks, protect consumers and generate needed community tax revenue. Five years later, the benefits of regulated betting are on full display across the country: 37 states and Washington, D.C., have legalized...
USA Today has hired NPR chief Terence Samuel as its next top editor. The national newspaper's parent company, Gannett, announced Friday that Samuel will oversee its flagship publication and shape content that serves what the company said is more than 75 million readers monthly. Samuel most recently served as vice president and executive editor of...
A nurse practitioner denied multiple ambulance requests from the mother of an 8-year-old migrant child who later died in U.S. custody, authorities said Thursday. The child and her family were in Border Patrol custody at Harlingen Station in Texas last month when she experienced a medical emergency and was transported to a local hospital, where...
Boeing's Starliner spacecraft is grounded indefinitely due to safety concerns with the capsule's parachutes and wiring. The anomalies, which were discovered last week, were discussed during a press conference Thursday night, during which NASA and Boeing announced that the Starliner's first planned crewed flight was on hold. That launch, which has faced many delays and...
House Republicans are asking the Justice Department to turn over information about special counsel Jack Smith’s investigation into Donald Trump, including details on whether any FBI employees on the case have investigated the former president. The letter, sent to Attorney General Merrick Garland, is an early show of how the powerful House Judiciary Committee plans...
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) evaded questions about the pronunciation of his last name on Thursday, claiming the correct version is “winner.” “This is ridiculous,” DeSantis said on Fox News. “These stupid things. Listen, the way to pronounce my last name? Winner.” The Republican presidential candidate has switched back and forth between two different pronunciations...
Arizona officials announced Thursday that the state will impose restrictions on some new construction in the Phoenix area due to receding groundwater, the latest impact of the decades-long drought that has scorched the Western U.S. In the Thursday announcement, the state’s Department of Water Resources (DWR) said the Phoenix area, the most populous in the...
Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin on Friday spoke briefly with his Chinese counterpart on the sidelines of the annual Shangri-La Dialogue Asian security summit in Singapore, a surprise exchange that comes after Beijing refused a request for the two to meet. Austin and Chinese Minister of National Defense Li Shangfu “spoke briefly at tonight’s opening dinner,” Pentagon...
Former President Trump said Thursday that he doesn’t like the term “woke,” claiming that most people “can’t even define it.” “I don’t like the term ‘woke’ because I hear, ‘Woke, woke, woke.’ It’s just a term they use, half the people can’t even define it, they don’t know what it is,” Trump said at the...
We have a unique opportunity right now to change the national conversation around end-of-life care and how we as a country can support that care.
The U.S. added 339,000 jobs in May and the unemployment rate rose to 3.7 percent, according to data released Friday by the Labor Department. The job market scrambled the expectations of economists in May. Expert forecasters projected a gain of roughly 195,000 jobs last month, according to consensus estimates, but for the jobless rate to...
Every summer, America’s tens of thousands of public schools undergo a transformation as regular but radical as any in nature. Emptied of their students and staff, many hibernate. But others transform. Public school buildings take up around 2 million acres of land, according to the nonprofit Trust for Public Land, often in the middle of...
Millions of American families utilize the convenience of the superstore's online grocery shopping pickup and delivery during their hectic lives, but an upcoming change is expected to affect those orders.
