Daniel Ellsberg, one of the most prominent whistleblowers in history, having leaked the Pentagon Papers revealing that the U.S. government was misleading the public about the status of the Vietnam War, died Friday at age 92. Ellsberg had been diagnosed with terminal pancreatic cancer in February. His son, Robert, announced his father’s death on Twitter,...
In past years, the failure rate of Alzheimer’s drugs has been alarmingly high. In fact, as recently as 2020, 99 percent of investigational drug products failed and never made it to market. Not only is Alzheimer’s an expensive disease, but its symptoms are also devastating for patients and families. The United States is on the...
President Biden on Friday railed against Republicans in Congress for not acting on gun violence, while rallying young gun safety activists ahead of the 2024 election. “Congress needs to act," Biden said during remarks at the National Safer Communities Summit at the University of Hartford in Connecticut. "Let me be clear about something: if this...
Nursing home residents are often reluctant to voice concerns about their care or report abuse or neglect for fear of retaliation by staff, according to a new survey. The survey from the Long Term Care Community Coalition, which was released for World Elder Abuse Awareness Day, highlights residents’ experiences with fear of retaliation “in their own...
Transgender activist Rose Montoya apologized in a video posted to Twitter on Friday for filming herself topless at a White House event last weekend celebrating Pride month. The initial video drew fierce public backlash, mostly from conservatives. The White House was asked about the video and described Montoya’s behavior as “simply unacceptable,” “inappropriate” and “disrespectful.”...
Former President Trump attacked his former chief of staff John Kelly after Kelly said the former president is is "scared s---less” over pending federal changes that he mishandled classified information. “John Kelly pretended to be a 'tough guy,' but was actually weak and ineffective, born with a VERY small 'brain.' He had a hard time...
T.J. Ducklo, a former White House aide and the national press secretary for President Biden's 2020 campaign, will join Biden's reelection campaign as a senior communications adviser. Ducklo will be based in Delaware and officially join in mid-July, the campaign confirmed to The Tennessee Lookout. Ducklo is the chief communications officer for Nashville Mayor John Cooper...
Memphis Grizzlies player Ja Morant will be suspended for the first 25 games of the season as a penalty for flashing a gun on social media for a second time, the NBA said Friday.
The Minneapolis Police Department routinely used excessive force and unlawfully discriminated against Black and Native American people, according to a Justice Department report released Friday following the agency's two-year investigation in the wake of George Floyd’s death. The police department and the city of Minneapolis engaged in conduct that violated the First and Fourth amendments,...
White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said in an interview on Thursday that she is hyper aware of the stereotypes that follow her as a Black woman speaking for the highest office in the nation. Speaking with theGrio’s April Ryan at the fourth annual Black Women Lead summit, Jean-Pierre discussed how she navigates a space that...
Parts of the U.S. are likely to see a resurgence of the wildfire smoke that blanketed the East Coast last week, with New York projected to see further haze Friday and parts of the upper Midwest already having major issues with air quality. New York is not expected to see a full resurgence of the...
The odds were really as short as three to one against drawing Judge Cannon.
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Attorney Jim Trusty requested he be allowed to withdraw from representing former President Trump in his defamation suit against CNN, days after Trusty stopped representing Trump in his criminal classified documents case. In court documents filed on Friday, Trusty cited “irreconcilable differences” between him and the former president, who is seeking $475 million in punitive...
President Biden on Friday said he has selected Mandy Cohen to lead the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) after Rochelle Walensky leaves this month. Cohen, who comes from the private sector after serving five years as the North Carolina health secretary, will inherit the role of CDC director as the agency finds itself...
Moderate drought conditions expanded across the DC area, according to a drought report released Thursday, as rain levels drop to 7 to 9 inches below normal this year and experts raise concerns about the impact on water supply. The latest U.S. Drought Monitor report showed “moderate drought” expanded across the larger region surrounding the district,...
Every year, some owner threatens some city with the loss of a team unless he gets his way with a new stadium or some other massive public subsidy. It's time for the cities to turn it around and respond by seizing their teams.
Spotify and a production company owned by Prince Harry and Meghan, the Duchess of Sussex, are ending their partnership. “Spotify and Archewell Audio have mutually agreed to part ways and are proud of the series we made together,” the two companies said in a joint statement to ITK on Friday. The collaboration — first announced...
The man who killed 11 worshipers in a mass shooting at the Tree of Life synagogue in Pittsburgh in 2018 was found guilty Friday of federal hate crime charges. A jury will now decide if Robert Bowers will receive the death penalty for committing the most deadly antisemitic attack in U.S. history. Sentencing is scheduled...
JPMorgan Chase is accusing the former first lady of the U.S. Virgin Islands of aiding Jeffrey Epstein’s sex-trafficking operation. In a filing submitted Wednesday in the ongoing lawsuit between the bank and the territory, the company alleged that former Virgin Islands first lady Cecile de Jongh, who managed Epstein’s companies based in the U.S. territory,...
A soccer match between the U.S. men’s national team and Mexico was halted early Thursday night because of a homophobic chant from the crowd. The raucous match saw the U.S. rout Mexico 3-0 in the CONCACAF Nations League semifinal at Allegiant Stadium in Las Vegas. The match was halted in the 98th minute, four minutes...
Former British Prime Minister Boris Johnson will join the tabloid The Daily Mail as its newest columnist, the publication announced Friday. The new role has drawn ire from U.K. Parliament ethics officials because it is standard for ministers to vet their post-Downing Street roles with them first. The column is a reprisal of Johnson's pre-political...
Japanese lawmakers implemented regulation Friday that raises the national age of consent from 13 to 16 and rewrites how the country defines sex crimes. The change was long sought by members of the public, rewriting a law that has been unchanged since 1907. Japan had the lowest age of consent in the developed world, though...
The American Federation of Teachers (AFT), the second-largest teacher’s union in the country, endorsed President Biden and Vice President Harris for reelection Friday in another show of organized labor strength for the president. The AFT offered its endorsement of Biden on the same day the AFL-CIO, the country’s largest federation of unions in the country,...
Former California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger (R) said in a new interview that he would run for president in 2024, and win, if he was eligible. “Yes, of course,” Schwarzenegger told CNN’s Chris Wallace when asked whether he would run if the Constitution did not require that the president be a natural-born U.S. citizen. “I mean,...
