A Sunday shooting at a Pennsylvania community center left one man dead and eight others wounded, Pennsylvania State Police confirmed. State police in Indiana County said officers responded around 12:35 a.m. Sunday to a shooting at a community center in White Township, about 50 miles northeast of Pittsburgh. Nine people between the ages of 18...
President Biden on Monday announced that the number of Americans killed in terrorist attacks against Israel had risen to 11, and he warned that American citizens may be among those being held hostage by the militant group Hamas. “As we continue to account for the horrors of the appalling terrorist assault against Israel this weekend...
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton announced Monday morning he intends to file criminal complaints against the 12 state representatives who led his impeachment trial. He claims they threatened him by publishing his personal information, including his home address, in a document release last week and broke a new state law.
America faces serious challenges. Our cities are being ruined by progressive soft-on-crime policies that keep criminals on the streets and storefronts closed. President Biden’s radical open-border policies have made our country less safe, eaten up budgets of cities across the country, and made the fentanyl crisis even worse. Out-of-control spending has caused massive inflation and...
The surprise attack on Israel by Hamas over the weekend and the resulting declaration of war by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu are weighing on financial markets and unsettling commodity prices as the global economy braces for military and diplomatic fallout. Stocks of energy and defense companies rose sharply Monday while shares of airlines and...
Maryland recorded its first travel-related death from a rare tickborne virus called Powassan, the Maryland Department of Health announced on Friday. The individual first contracted the illness in Canada and then returned to Maryland, officials said. Officials first confirmed the presence of the infected tick bite on Sept. 22. The illness is rare and is spread through...
The way to accomplish this is to identify a collaborative project — one that produces tangible outcomes, attacks an urgent problem and represents a win for the U.S., China and the world.
Former President Donald Trump will not travel to Capitol Hill this week as House Republicans scramble to determine the next Speaker, a source familiar with the matter confirmed to The Hill. Sources previously told The Hill that Trump and his team were discussing a possible trip to Capitol Hill amid the debate over the next...
Republican presidential candidates are laying blame on the Biden administration after the Palestinian militant group Hamas launched an attack on Israel over the weekend. Many of the GOP White House contenders are linking the deadly attack with a recent prisoner exchange between the U.S. and Iran, a historical supporter of Hamas, which resulted in the...
The director of the Anti-Defamation League criticized MSNBC while appearing on the network for the way it was covering the ongoing fighting between Hamas and Israeli military forces. “While I am sad and trying to cope, I’ll be honest. I am angry. I am angry with the world that allowed the dehumanization of Israelis and...
Hamas has vowed to kill an Israeli hostage any time Israeli armed forces target civilians in Gaza “without prior warning." Hamas spokesperson Abu Obeida made the remarks in an audio message released Monday night. The militant group, which governs Gaza and has been declared a terrorist group by the United States government, launched a series...
It’s 5 o’clock somewhere for a new species of sea snail, Cayo margarita, whose name was inspired by the late singer Jimmy Buffett. The creatures, native to the Florida Reef, were named in a study published Monday in the journal PeerJ. The “margarita” in the mollusk’s name is a reference to “the vividly lemon-yellow coloration that...
This war has created a dramatically new paradigm.
The White House is condemning recent online attacks against an openly gay Interior Department spokesman, calling them cruel and unacceptable. The attacks online are targeting Tyler Cherry, Interior's principal deputy communications director, and started when the right-wing social media account LibsofTikTok criticized Cherry's appearance on X, formerly known as Twitter. The account shared photographs and...
The rule that allowed Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-Fla.) to single-handedly call for a vote ousting Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) has become a key issue for Republicans as they grapple over who should replace him. Some are intent on changing the rule, known as a “motion to vacate,” so a handful of House Republicans can never...
New data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has shed light on the rate at which long COVID affects children, indicating the condition occurs among only a small minority of them. In a new survey conducted by the National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS), the CDC found that 1.3 percent of children...
This year, as we celebrate Indigenous Peoples Day, it is important that all of us remember and honor the rich history, culture and resilience that Native Americans have shown across the United States. Today is not just a day for celebration, however, it is also a reminder of the collective responsibility we have to rectify...
Vietnamese government agents apparently targeted several U.S. lawmakers and journalists with spyware using public posts on X, the platform formerly known as Twitter, according to an investigation by Amnesty International and a consortium of media outlets. Rep. Michael McCaul (R-Texas) and Sens. John Hoeven (R-N.D.), Chris Murphy (D-Conn.) and Gary Peters (D-Mich.) were all tagged...
Members of the Kennedy family are denouncing 2024 presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s decision on Monday to abandon his Democratic campaign and instead run as an independent candidate. “The decision of our brother Bobby to run as a third-party candidate against Joe Biden is dangerous to our country,” read a statement signed by four of Kennedy’s...
California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) signed off on a pair of rules that will require large corporations that do business in the Golden State to disclose their greenhouse gas emissions and climate-related risk. The two bills, which were among a laundry list of legislation approved this weekend, are the Climate Corporate Data Accountability Act, or SB-253, and the Climate-Related...
U2 is changing the lyrics of their classic hit “Pride (in the Name of Love)” to honor the victims of an attack at a music festival in Israel. “In the light of what’s happened in Israel and Gaza, a song about nonviolence seems somewhat ridiculous, even laughable,” lead singer Bono said in a video posted Monday on...
Former Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) is calling on President Biden to refreeze $6 billion in Iranian funds in the wake of the recent attacks on Israel by Hamas. In a lengthy address laying out a five-step plan to address the escalating conflict in Israel, McCarthy took aim at the Biden administration for its prisoner swap with Iran...
Sen. Tommy Tuberville (R-Ala.) is showing no signs of calling off his hold on military promotions, despite erupting tensions between Israel and Hamas. Senate Armed Services Committee Chairman Jack Reed (D-R.I.) on Sunday argued in an interview that the emerging war "underscores the foolishness" of Tuberville's hold. The Alabama senator insists, though, that the latest...
The Gates Foundation announced Monday it will invest $40 million in several African manufacturers to produce and provide access to mRNA vaccines on the continent. In a release, the foundation said the initiative will build on lessons learned from 20 years of working with vaccine manufacturers to "leverage recent scientific advances to develop low-cost, high-quality...
Former Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) kept the door open to a comeback bid for the Speakership on Monday, outlining steps he believes the U.S. should take to respond to the crisis in Israel during a lengthy press conference — a presentation that was reminiscent of when he held the gavel just a week before. The...
