An airport worker died after being "ingested" into a plane engine at the San Antonio International Airport last week. Multiple news outlets reported that the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) is investigating an incident where a worker was sucked into a jet engine Friday night. According to a statement to NBC News, the NTSB said...
A U.S. Navy official said Sunday that a large salvage system will not be used to retrieve the Titan submersible that imploded on its journey to view the 1912 wreck of the Titanic. The official told The Associated Press that the Navy will not use its Flyaway Deep Ocean Salvage System to recover the Titan because there...
The super PAC supporting Gov. Ron DeSantis (R ), Never Back Down, rolled out a new video hitting former President Trump over his commutation of former Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick ahead of Trump's campaign stop in the Michigan city's suburbs on Sunday. The spot, titled "Welcome to Detroit," details Kilpatrick's sentence to 28 years in prison...
The supreme leader of the Taliban, Hibatullah Akhundzada, said on Sunday that the government has taken “necessary steps” for “the betterment of women” in Afghanistan, as the United Nations sounds alarms about women's rights in the country. In a message ahead of the Eid al-Adha holiday, Akhundzada said women’s “Shariah rights have been protected” and...
Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) on Sunday accused Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-Colo.) of leaking their tense argument in the House chamber to the press, calling it "unfortunate" that she did so. “I find it unfortunate that Lauren Boebert leaked that conversation that we had to the press. But once she leaked it out, I had...
On this day 10 years ago, the Supreme Court gutted the Voting Rights Act of 1965 (VRA). That decision has been devastating for voters of color and our representative democracy. And while the court’s recent decision in Allen v. Milliganregarding racial gerrymandering that upheld Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act is a favorable step,...
Former Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) said Sunday that it was "shameful" that Supreme Court Justices Samuel Alito and Clarence Thomas are so "cavalier" about ethics. "Well, I think they have the opportunity to write some ethics rules for themselves. And that's what the chief justice said we can do it ourselves. I see no action...
Former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie (R) said Sunday he expected to get booed at a Faith & Freedom event Saturday when he criticized former President Trump in front of an audience largely supportive of the former president. “Look, people understand that folks need to take responsibility for what they do. And my message to...
A similar incident happened late last year in Alabama.
Everyone wants to keep Medicare on solid financial footing. But getting agreement on how to go about it is a challenge.
Former Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) said in an interview broadcast on Sunday that Supreme Court justices should have term limits, and left the door open for expansion of the nine-justice court. Pelosi said on MSNBC's "Inside with Jen Psaki" that there "certainly should be term limits" for the justices. "Here we have a body ... chosen for...
Multiple people are dead after an overnight shooting Sunday at 57th and Prospect in Kansas City.
GOP presidential candidate Chris Christie said on Sunday that he does not believe he waited too long to break ties with former President Trump. The former New Jersey governor told Fox News host Howard Kurtz on "MediaBuzz" that he reached a "breaking point" with the former president over Trump's refusal to concede the 2020 election...
Former federal judge Michael Luttig took to the pages of the New York Times Sunday to slam Republicans for their “spineless support” of former President Trump and to lament that the GOP have “convinced Mr. Trump of his political immortality.” “The former president’s behavior may have invited charges, but the Republicans’ spineless support for the...
A new poll found that just more than two of three respondents are concerned about President Biden's mental and physical health. The NBC News poll found that 68 percent are concerned that Biden, 80, does not possess the "necessary" mental and physical health to serve as president, with 55 percent saying they have "major" concerns....
House Intelligence Committee Chair Mike Turner (R) called for the Office of the Director of National Intelligence to declassify all data reviewed in the probe into the origins of the COVID-19 virus and into the possible link to the Wuhan Institute of Virology, calling a recent report released by the agency “not sufficient.” On Friday,...
Rep. Don Bacon (R-Neb.) on Sunday said former President Trump should not have kept classified documents at his Florida residence after his term in the White House ended, despite the former president's claims that he had a right to keep them. "We don't have a right to take top-secret information to our home. I've dealt with top...
Presented repeatedly with the yes-or-no question of whether she thought AB 5 was a good law, Su would not give a straight answer.
This week's Supreme Court decision stating that the U.S. does not have to secure water for the Navajo Nation denies help to a community that struggles with water access, experts and advocates say. The high court ruled Thursday that the U.S. does not have to take “affirmative steps” to secure water for the tribe under an...
The main argument Nelson should deploy is that the space agency addresses both economic and foreign policy needs that would be compromised if it is not adequately funded.
Republican presidential candidate Doug Burgum, the governor of North Dakota, said on Sunday that he doesn't think a dozen candidates is too many for the 2024 Republican presidential primary field. "I don't think a dozen candidates is too many. Competition is great for America. It's great for any industry, and it's great for the Republican...
Former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie (R) on Sunday slammed former President Trump for touting his own indictment, calling it “absurd.” During a Faith & Freedom Coalition event Saturday, Trump described the two separate indictments he faces as a “great badge of courage,” and said, “I’m being indicted for you and I believe the you...
McCarthy is poised to renege on the agreement he negotiated and risk a shutdown of the federal government this fall.
Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-Minn.) on Sunday shrugged off criticism of President Biden's son Hunter Biden attending a state dinner at the White House last week just after pleading guilty to tax crimes. "You know, I think as the president explained, that's his son. That's a separate thing," Klobuchar said on NBC's "Meet the Press," when asked if...
Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Sunday backed President Biden’s remarks calling Chinese President Xi Jinping a dictator, saying the president "speaks for all of us." "It's very clear that when it comes to China, we are going to do and say things that they don't like. They are going to do and say things...
