With at least three public protests involving the burning of the Quran in Sweden, questions on the freedom of speech and protecting religious minorities are making headlines in Europe. CBS News reported that two protesters Monday burned pages torn from a Quran, the Muslim holy book, outside the Riksdag, the Swedish parliament, in Stockholm, marking...
President Biden overturned a decision from the Trump administration to relocate the temporary headquarters of Space Command to Alabama, deciding instead to keep the base in Colorado. The decision was made because Biden believes keeping the HQ in Colorado Springs, rather than relocating it to Huntsville, would maintain stability and not impact readiness, according to...
Vice President Kamala Harris is doubling down on her rebuke of new Florida education guidelines that call for the teaching of how enslaved people benefited from slavery. In an interview Monday with ABC News’s Linsey Davis, Harris dismissed allegations that her response to these guidelines is “ideological posturing.” “I think that this is just a matter of...
The Susan B. Anthony List, a conservative anti-abortion group, is slamming Republican presidential candidate Ron DeSantis for his position on abortion and sidestepping of whether he would support a federal ban on abortion. “A pro-life president has a duty to protect the lives of all Americans,” said Marjorie Dannenfelser, president of the Susan B. Anthony...
A super PAC backing Democratic presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. brought in more than $6 million in fundraising last month, a press release from American Values 2024 announced Monday. The super PAC said it raised $6.47 million in July, bringing its total fundraising for Kennedy to about $16.82 million. The press release noted Democrats...
You can get into the national parks for free on five specific days this year. One of those days will happen this week.
A New Jersey family is suing a movie theater chain after the mother and her son, who has autism, were thrown out.
The National Institutes of Health (NIH) said Monday it will begin enrolling patients in long-delayed clinical trials to test at least four potential treatments for long COVID, adding it expects additional clinical trials to test at least seven more treatments in the coming months. These are the first clinical studies into a possible treatment for...
Health officials say that cases of leprosy, also known as Hansen's disease, are surging in Central Florida. In a news release Monday, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) said that Central Florida has accounted for 81 percent of reported cases in the state and almost one-fifth of reported cases nationwide. “Leprosy has been...
The juggernaut impression of Jack Smith’s investigations could set off a domino effect as panicked Trump employees rush to make cooperation deals before “the train leaves the station.”
California’s privacy regulator said Monday it will be reviewing the data privacy practices of connected car manufacturers. Connected cars offer drivers smart features including web-based entertainment, location sharing, cameras and smartphone integration. In its announcement Monday, the California Privacy Protection Agency (CPAA) said in order to provide these features, the vehicles “often automatically gather consumers’...
A group of senators affiliated with the progressive and climate-hawk wings of the Democratic party are calling on Attorney General Merrick Garland to sue fossil fuel companies for misleading the public on climate change. In the letter, Sens. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), Ed Markey (D-Mass.), Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) and Jeff Merkley (D-Ore.) called on the Justice...
Rep. Thomas Massie (R-Ky.), one of the few House members to endorse Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis's presidential bid, joked that DeSantis should get indicted in order to boost his poll numbers among GOP voters. “I’ve said we gotta figure out, we got to find some judge in Florida that’ll indict DeSantis quick, to close this...
Former President Trump on Monday knocked New Hampshire Gov. Chris Sununu (R) after the the governor predicted Trump won't secure the 2024 Republican presidential nomination. "RINO Chris Sununu recently stated that, 'I’m not running for president in 2024. Beating Trump is more important.' No, he’s not running for President because he’s polling at Zero, and has no chance...
President Biden is opening up about the crummiest advice he’s ever gotten, saying holding grudges “gets you nowhere.” “I guess the worst advice I’ve ever received was holding a grudge — because lots of times when people do something that is really not good, it’s because they were fearful when they did it. Not fearful...
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) rolled out his economic policy plan at a campaign stop in New Hampshire on Monday, dubbing the plan "a declaration of economic independence." "We will declare our economic independence from the failed elites that have orchestrated American decline, from the reckless federal spending that has inflated prices and plunged this...
In exchange for lifting the debt ceiling for two years, President Biden traded away permanent changes to the National Environmental Policy Act. These are the first comprehensive changes in NEPA’s 50-year history, weakening the foundational environmental review and public input processes used by federal agencies for nearly every type of federal project. Without evaluating the...
Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis (D) said her team has wrapped up their work on the investigation into former President Trump’s efforts to reverse the 2020 election results in Georgia, and she reaffirmed her commitment to announce charging decisions by September 1. “The work is accomplished,” Willis told local news station 11Alive on Saturday. “We’ve...
Country singer Jason Aldean defended his controversial song “Try That in a Small Town” in Massachusetts over the weekend, saying the message of the track was demonstrated by the city of Boston after the devastating marathon bombing 10 years ago. Speaking to fans at the Xfinity Center in Mansfield, about 40 miles from where the...
A White House board of intelligence experts made the case Monday for reauthorizing one of the intelligence community’s most controversial tools, arguing failure to do so could be “one of the worst intelligence failures of our time.” Congress has until the end of the year to reauthorize Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act...
Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-Mich.) called out Florida over its recently approved African American history standards, calling one controversial portion “outrageous.” “It's outrageous that in Florida, public school students will now be taught that enslaved Black folks benefited from slavery,” Tlaib wrote in a post on X, the social media platform formerly known as Twitter, on...
When asked if the government should address the potential impact of social media, only 23% of the public responded no.
Michael Cohen, former personal attorney of Donald Trump, compared the former president's rhetoric and demands for unquestioning loyalty to the language in Adolf Hitler’s Nazi manifesto in an interview Sunday. “Right out of 'Mein Kampf,'” Cohen said, agreeing with MSNBC host Ali Velshi, “which allegedly Donald used to keep on the side of his table.”...
The Biden administration announced Monday it will be testing a new voluntary care model for people living with dementia and their unpaid caretakers, with the goal of expanding the prevalence of "high-quality, coordinated care." According to the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), the newly announced Guiding an Improved Dementia Experience (GUIDE) Model will...
Nine state residents and the Oklahoma Parent Legislative Action Committee filed a lawsuit Monday to stop the nation’s first openly religious charter school from operating. Oklahoma’s Statewide Virtual Charter School Board had voted 3-2 last month to approve the application of the St. Isidore of Seville Catholic Virtual School. The plaintiffs, represented by organizations including Americans...
