In a Washington Post, Ipsos and FiveThirtyEight poll taken of potential Republican voters who watched Wednesday’s GOP debate, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis and entrepreneur Vivek Ramaswamy came out on top. The poll showed 29 and 26 percent of the potential voters thought DeSantis and Ramaswamy "performed best," respectively. Former South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley lagged...
Did the debt-ceiling deal passed in May reflect a new congressional focus on spending restraint? Or was it a fluke win by House conservatives that will unravel as Congress addresses spending this fall? One test will be the upcoming farm bill, which will reauthorize both farm subsidies and food stamps. Without reforms, the bill will...
Former President Trump touted an interview with pundit Tucker Carlson posted on X, the platform formerly known as Twitter, as the first Republican primary debate was airing Wednesday night on Fox News. "231,000,000 Views, and still counting. The Biggest Video on Social Media, EVER, more than double the Super Bowl," Trump wrote Thursday afternoon of...
Harrison Floyd, a leader of Black Voices for Trump who was indicted in the Georgia election case, was arrested earlier this year for allegedly assaulting an FBI agent, court filings show. Floyd surrendered at the Fulton County jail Thursday, joining a number of former President Trump's co-defendants, but he is the only one to do...
Former Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan (R) said Thursday he was “embarrassed and disgusted” that most of the GOP presidential candidates said during Wednesday's debate they would support former President Trump as their party’s 2024 nominee, even if he were convicted of a crime. “That was the low light of the entire debate,” Hogan said in...
Wagner Group founder Yevgeny Prigozhin was likely killed in the plane that crashed Wednesday about 100 miles from Moscow, the Pentagon said Thursday. Pentagon press secretary Brig. Gen. Pat Ryder said the U.S. believes that Prigozhin died but did not comment on the cause of the crash or whether he was slain intentionally. "Our initial...
DeSantis has done a complete 180 from the position that once formed the backbone of his presidential campaign.
A popular method for reducing carbon emissions may be little more than “hot air,” a new study has found. In past years, financial markets have done increasingly brisk business in “voluntary carbon offsets,” projects that ostensibly capture greenhouse gas emissions — or prevent them from being released into the atmosphere. One of the leading forms...
Paper drinking straws touted as eco-friendly alternatives to plastic may contain cancer-linked “forever chemicals,” a new study has found. Scientists detected perfluorinated and polyfluorinated substances (PFAS) in the majority of straws they tested — with paper and bamboo-based straws ranking among the worst offenders, according to the study, published Thursday in Food Additives and Contaminants. Known...
Ten days after being indicted by a Georgia grand jury, former President Trump plans to surrender in Atlanta on Thursday. He faces 13 criminal counts stemming from his efforts to overturn the 2020 election in the state. Trump will not enter a plea at this time. Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis (D) has requested arraignments for...
The Coalition of Kaiser Permanente Unions, which represents more than 85,000 health care workers in seven states and the District of Columbia, announced Thursday that its members would vote to authorize a strike between Aug. 26 and Sept. 13. This would be “the largest strike of health care workers in the history of this country,”...
The smoke from Canadian wildfires that engulfed U.S. cities this summer and turned New York City’s skies orange led to a spike in asthma-related visits to emergency rooms, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) revealed Thursday. Smoke caused dangerously low air quality in cities across the U.S., but the impact was felt especially...
Former President Trump is opposing an effort to move the trial for his election interference case in Georgia up to October, asking to sever his case from that of a co-defendant who asked for a speedy trial. The notice from Trump came after co-defendant Kenneth Chesebro filed a motion for a speedy trial and Fulton...
Former White House chief of staff Mark Meadows surrendered to authorities at the Fulton County jail Thursday afternoon, according to jail records. Meadows is charged alongside 18 other defendants – including former President Trump – in a sweeping racketeering case brought by Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis (D) that claims they participated in a...
Asian Americans have significantly higher exposure to cancer-linked “forever chemicals” than any other ethnic or racial group in the country, a new study has found. By accounting for different sources of community contact with toxic PFAS — such as varying diets and behaviors — Mount Sinai researchers determined that median exposure levels of Asian Americans...
T-Mobile plans to lay off close to 5,000 employees, about 7 percent of its workforce, by the end of September, the company’s president and CEO said in an email to employees Thursday. The layoffs will primarily affect corporate, back-office and technology roles, while retail and other customer-facing roles “will not be impacted,” Mike Sievert, T-Mobile’s...
The U.S. Postal Service is set to unveil its new stamp honoring late Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg this October. The Postal Service announced Thursday it will hold a first-day-of-issue ceremony in October for the new Forever stamp commemorating Ginsburg’s legacy. Ginsburg passed away at the age of 87 in 2020 due to complications from pancreatic...
The Department of Justice (DOJ) filed a lawsuit Thursday against SpaceX, Elon Musk’s space company, alleging the company discriminated against refugees and asylees during the hiring process. The DOJ claimed SpaceX “routinely” discouraged refugees and those granted asylum from applying for jobs and often would refuse to hire or consider them for positions, specifically because of their...
Sixty years ago, the March on Washington for Jobs & Freedom saw Martin Luther King Jr. give his iconic “I Have a Dream” speech. Both the march and speech were seminal moments instrumental in the passage of the watershed Civil Rights Act of 1964. Where does the fight for equal opportunity and civil rights stand...
A racist outburst at a McDonald's in Fresno, California, went viral on social media with hundreds of thousands of engagements since being posted over the weekend.
Dozens of supporters of former President Trump have gathered outside the Fulton County Jail in Atlanta on Thursday, hours before he is expected to turn himself in on election fraud charges. Trump supporters outside the jail Thursday held banners and flags and said they were there to offer their support. “I’m here to support Donald...
Flight restrictions were ordered over the jail in Fulton County, Ga., where former President Trump is expected to surrender Thursday evening. The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) issued a notice to pilots warning they were prohibited from flying aircraft over a designated area surrounding the courthouse from 6:45 p.m. to 11 p.m. Thursday. The FAA specified...
Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis is asking for an Oct. 23 start date in the trial of former President Trump and 18 co-defendants in response to one of the defendants' requests to hasten the trial. The date is four months earlier than the one Willis initially suggested for the trial over whether Trump and...
Mark Meadows, who served as White House chief of staff under former President Trump, agreed to a $100,000 bail on Thursday in the Georgia election case. Meadows became the 16th of the 19 defendants to have their bond agreement signed off by the state judge overseeing the case. Prosecutors and defense attorneys have been negotiating...
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) on Thursday announced the launch of a new initiative aimed at supporting sepsis teams at U.S. hospitals in light of new data that found a third of patients who die in hospitals had sepsis while hospitalized. The CDC's Hospital Sepsis Program Core Elements will act as a...
