The Federal Aviation Administration on Friday ordered SpaceX to make numerous changes to its infrastructure and process before being allowed to launch another rocket after its last attempt destroyed its launch pad and caused widespread damage. The agency provided 63 steps SpaceX must take before it allows the company to launch another rocket from its...
House members from three key committees introduced a bipartisan health care bill Friday aimed at addressing price transparency, prescription drug costs and workforce investment, consolidating measures that already have been advanced by the respective panels. Leadership from the House Energy and Commerce, Ways and Means and Education and the Workforce committees introduced the Lower Costs,...
The Biden administration on Friday released a new report related to whether a permit for the Dakota Access Pipeline would be canceled — but did not indicate it had come to a decision. In 2020, a court ordered the administration to review environmental impacts for a portion of the pipeline that crosses the Missouri River’s...
Washington is debating how to fund the Federal Aviation Administration, which oversees many facets of American air travel including air traffic control, but there is one subject that should not be debated: safety. Take it from my pilot colleagues at American Airlines or from Sen. Tammy Duckworth (D-Ill.), who piloted Blackhawk helicopters in Iraq and recently...
Kim Kardashian is making a public plea to President Biden, calling on him and other world leaders to “stop the Armenian genocide.” In an opinion piece published Friday in Rolling Stone, the Hulu reality TV star and Eric Esrailian, a physician and producer, write to Biden, “We are Armenian. We are the descendants of Armenian Genocide survivors,...
The Biden administration formally asked the Supreme Court on Friday to review and overturn a ruling from a federal appeals court that would limit the availability of the common abortion pill mifepristone. DOJ's request followed a separate one made Friday by Danco Laboratories, the manufacturer of the brand name Mifeprex. In its filing, the company...
The manufacturer of a common abortion drug on Friday asked the Supreme Court to overturn a ruling from a federal appeals court that would limit the availability of the pill. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the 5th Circuit ruled in August that the brand name Mifeprex and its generic counterpart Mifepristone can stay on...
A Fulton County, Ga., special grand jury recommended charges against 39 people for their involvement in former President Trump’s efforts to overturn the results of the 2020 election in Georgia, according to its final report. Only 19 people were ultimately charged last month in Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis’s (D) years-long investigation. Some of...
Former President Trump is way ahead in Iowa, according to a new Iowa State University/Civiqs poll finding the former president leading his rival GOP presidential candidates by a wide margin. Fifty-one percent of the 434 respondents to the poll of prospective Iowa caucusgoers said the former president is their “first choice.” Following Trump by a...
An appeals court on Thursday stopped a lower court order that required Texas to remove the floating barriers it placed in the Rio Grande to deter migrants from crossing. The temporary stay issued by the Court of Appeals for the 5th Circuit freezes a significant win by the Biden administration against Texas Gov. Greg Abbott...
He’s known for his dead-on impressions of former Presidents Clinton and Trump on “Saturday Night Live,” but now Darrell Hammond is poised to play another famed political figure on stage. Hammond will take on the role of the late Sen. Everett McKinley Dirksen in a staged reading beginning next month in New York, organizers announced...
May the wisdom and grace of God be with all of us in the coming presidential election.
Florida Supreme Court justices seemed sympathetic Friday to the argument from the government that the state constitution does not protect abortion, a view that could pave the way for a sweeping abortion ban to become law. The lawsuit challenging the current 15-week ban was brought by a group of Florida-based abortion providers, including Planned Parenthood. ...
California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) says it’s time to “move on” from speculation that he might run in the 2024 White House race. “Filing deadlines haven't passed. [If] President Biden doesn't run, why shouldn't we consider you a likely candidate?” Chuck Todd asked Newsom in an interview set to air Sunday morning on “Meet the...
Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) defended his actions surrounding the 2020 election after a grand jury report in Fulton County, Ga., released Friday showed jurors recommended that he be prosecuted. Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis (D) ultimately did not pursue the charges. Graham said Friday that his decisions, including his highly-publicized call with Georgia Secretary of...
After months under seal, a report by the Georgia special grand jury that investigated whether any charges should be brought against former President Trump and a throng of co-defendants was released Friday. The report names 39 individuals whose actions following the 2020 presidential election were investigated over an alleged effort to subvert the state’s election...
Former attorneys for the National Security Agency and other parts of the federal intelligence community are busy warning members of Congress about the grave dangers of surveillance reform. Over the August recess they penned and spun pieces in the media that will give their lobbyists plenty of “leave-behinds” when they go from office to office...
The Biden campaign rolled out a 60-second ad Friday hitting former President Trump and two other GOP presidential candidates for their stances on abortion, underscoring the incumbent's intention of using the pivotal issue in next year's campaign. The ad, titled "These Guys," targets Trump, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis and Sen. Tim Scott (S.C.) for their...
Former President Trump criticized the Biden administration Friday on an unexpected front: experimentation with making Army tanks all-electric. "The Biden Administration wants to now make our Army Tanks all Electric so that, despite the fact that they will not be able to go very far, fewer pollutants will be released into the air," Trump wrote...
The Philadelphia district attorney charged a former city police officer with murder Friday over the shooting of a Black man during a traffic stop last month. Then-officer Mark Dial, who is white, shot and killed Eddie Irizarry while he sat in his vehicle after police stopped his car over alleged erratic driving last month, video...
{beacon} 12:30 REPORT Happy Friday! It’s still sizzling in Washington, D.C. ???? But the good news is that it will drop to “merely seasonably warm” this weekend, according to the Capital Weather Gang. Wahoo. Here’s what’s coming up: Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) announced she is running for her 20th term in Congress. Hurricane Lee strengthened...
This is in part, the “two Asias,” problem: a U.S.-led “security Asia” of competing nationalisms, Chinese military ascendance and territorial disputes versus “economic Asia.”
Former Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) is running for reelection. The longtime California congresswoman, who stepped down from Democratic leadership at the end of the last Congress, announced Friday that she will run for another term. “Now more than ever our City needs us to advance San Francisco values and further our recovery. Our country needs...
Former President Trump is set to headline a rally in South Dakota on Friday alongside the state’s Gov. Kristi Noem (R), fueling speculation he could be courting her to be his running mate. Noem has been a vocal ally of the former president for years and even took herself out of the running for the...
Israel and the Saudi kingdom do not have an all-or-nothing approach.
