Federal agents on Thursday raided the home of a top fundraiser and friend to New York City Mayor Eric Adams. Adams had planned to attend a meeting at the White House with senior Biden administration officials to discuss the migrant crisis, but abruptly flew back to New York. Agents searched the Brooklyn home of Brianna...
The New York judge overseeing former President Trump’s financial fraud trial on Friday extended a gag order issued in the case to Trump's attorneys, barring them from making comments about his communications with his staff and saying the comments have spurred threats. Judge Arthur Engoron has already prohibited Trump from making public comments about his...
President Biden on Friday called for consensus around reforms to curb gun violence as he visited the site of yet another mass shooting, this time in Lewiston, Maine, where 18 people were killed last week. The president and first lady stopped at a memorial outside Schemengees Bar & Grille, one of the sites targeted by...
The U.S. military deployed unarmed drones in Gaza to assist Israeli armed forces in searching for hostages held by Hamas, the Department of Defense confirmed on Friday. Hamas militants captured about 200 hostages during its surprise attack on Israel early last month, which also killed more than a thousand Israeli civilians and sparked the ongoing...
Senate Banking Committee Chair Sherrod Brown (D-Ohio) on Friday hailed the conviction of one-time cryptocurrency mogul Sam Bankman-Fried on seven charges of fraud and conspiracy as a “victory.” “This verdict is a victory for everyone fighting fraud and scams in crypto. In this trial, we saw how crypto companies like FT think the law doesn’t...
Nancy Pelosi’s tenure as Speaker was not only stable, but she was also able to leave her mark on American politics.
EMILYs list added new House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) to a list of Republicans it is targeting for their views on abortion ahead of the 2024 Friday. “MAGA Mike Johnson and his supporters have made their plan to ban abortion crystal clear. Every single one of the Republicans EMILYs List has already put ‘On Notice’...
Senators will hear testimony Tuesday from a former Facebook employee who is alleging the company failed to act on reports of harassment and harm facing teens on the platform. Arturo Bejar, a former Facebook engineering director who later worked as a company consultant, will testify before a Senate subcommittee about social media and its...
Story at a glance Even though many women experience postpartum depression and anxiety, most counties in the U.S. lack sufficient maternal mental health resources, according to a new report from The Policy Center for Maternal Mental Health. In total, 70 percent of U.S. counties do not have enough perinatal mental health providers, prescribers and community-based...
Congressman George Santos (R-N.Y.) said he will run again for his seat in 2024, even if he is expelled from the House of Representatives. The embattled congressman told CNN chief congressional correspondent Manu Raju during an interview for “Inside Politics Sunday” that he will run for reelection, despite mounting legal troubles and previous revelations that...
A former State Department official was sentenced to almost six years in prison for attacking police officers during the Jan. 6, 2021, riot on the Capitol, the Associated Press reported Friday. Federico Klein, who was appointed by former President Trump, was allegedly part of a mob that outnumbered Capitol Police on the Lower West Terrace...
Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) appeared to get his words mixed up in one of his first fundraising emails since taking the top House job last week. Johnson capped a standard fundraising message Friday with a new turn on a familiar phrase: “I refuse to put people over politics.” That apparent mix-up garnered jeers from House...
The State of Qatar hosts both the headquarters of U.S. Central Command and the political office of a terrorist organization whose brutality “brings to mind the worst rampages of ISIS.”
A top Latino voter outreach network and the largest Democratic super PAC are teaming up on a six-figure bilingual ad campaign that's airing exclusively on YouTube. Somos PAC and Priorities USA Action are narrowing their focus to the online video platform, which disproportionately attracts Hispanic audiences. “YouTube is the next battleground when it comes to...
The Supreme Court said Friday it will hear a case brought by the National Rifle Association (NRA) that accuses a former New York regulator of infringing on the group’s speech by discouraging banks and insurers from working with it. In April 2018 — two months after the deadly mass shooting at a Parkland, Fla., high...
Drug manufacturers have agreed to increase their production of stimulant medications like Adderall to help address the ongoing shortage in the U.S., with the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) making changes to its quota process. The U.S. is experiencing a shortage of several stimulant drugs, including Adderall, Ritalin and Vyvanse. The Adderall shortage has gone on...
Rep. Andy Harris (R-Md.), the chair of the subcommittee that crafted the House GOP’s annual agriculture funding bill, is casting doubt on the legislation's chances of passage this month amid divisions on abortion and spending. House Republicans had hoped to pass their remaining annual government funding bills by a looming Nov. 17 deadline to prevent a shutdown, as...
As the end of daylight saving time looms this year, the U.S. Congress is still hung up on whether to make it permanent. A bill to do so hit a brick wall in the House last year, despite passing the Senate by unanimous consent. The bill, the Sunshine Protection Act, was reintroduced in March by...
The Supreme Court will decide whether to uphold a Trump-era ban on bump stocks, devices that convert semi-automatic weapons to fire more rapidly, the court announced Friday. The Trump administration imposed the rule after a gunman using a bump stock killed roughly 60 people and wounded hundreds of others attending a 2017 music festival on...
Earlier this week, the DeSoto County Sheriff's Office warned the public about a driver allegedly impersonating law enforcement officers in a Chevy Silverado equipped with red and blue lights.
The academic community's response to antisemitism on its own campuses has been not merely inadequate, it has come at the cost of the safety and security of Jewish students.
Rep. Ritchie Torres (D-N.Y.) said he mistakenly voted against a resolution Thursday condemning Hamas supporters on college campuses. “As a visible and vocal advocate against antisemitism on college campuses, especially in the wake of October 7th, I have submitted a correction for the record,” Torres wrote in a post on X, the platform formerly known...
Before Democrats celebrate their victories, they must be aware of two tools that facilitate gerrymandering when maps are drawn.
With daylight saving time for 2023 coming to an end Sunday, the majority of people in the U.S. will “fall back” one hour as standard time resumes. For most, this means an extra hour of rest coupled with less daylight in the evening, a trade-off that has long fuelled the debate as to whether daylight...
Amazon made more than $1 billion in excess profits by employing a secret algorithm codenamed “Project Nessie” that inflated prices, according to newly unredacted portions of the Federal Trade Commission (FTC)’s antitrust lawsuit against the e-commerce giant. Project Nessie, which Amazon used between 2015 and 2019, was able to raise prices on and off the...
