Iowa is bracing for frigid weather next week as the state’s critical GOP caucus kicks off the Republican presidential nominating cycle. A major winter storm is set to bring “widespread, significant impacts” to much of the U.S. this week, according to the National Weather Service (NWS), and Iowa is already being hit by snow and...
The man who attacked a Nevada county judge in Las Vegas court last week was back in front of the same judge Monday in shackles and a spit mask. Deobra Redden faced Clark County District Court Judge Mary Kay Holthus in person on Monday for the first time since he jumped from the defendant’s table,...
Missouri Secretary of State Jay Ashcroft (R) and CNN anchor Boris Sanchez on Monday got into a contentious back and forth over whether former President Trump can be kept off the ballot in 2024. As Ashcroft joined CNN for an interview on Monday afternoon Sanchez cited a tweet from the Missouri AG calling a decision...
Harvard interim President Alan Garber released a statement to the university community Monday addressing the high tension on campus in the wake of his predecessor's highly publicized resignation. “We have been through an extraordinarily painful and disorienting time for Harvard. Since I first arrived here as an undergraduate in 1973, I cannot recall a period...
The New York Police Department (NYPD) said Monday it arrested 325 pro-Palestinian protesters blocking three bridges in the New York area, as well as the Holland Tunnel. NYPD Chief of Patrol John Chell said demonstrators began blocking the structures at 9:40 a.m., and that by 11:15 a.m. the NYPD and the Port Authority of New...
You may love your electric vehicle, but you may be spending a lot more on it than you think.
A new study has found that the average bottle of water contains nearly a quarter million fragments of "nanoplastics" — plastic particles so small they can potentially gum up the machinery of human cells. The findings published on Monday in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences open a disturbing window into a largely unmapped corner...
The Florida Republican Party voted to remove chair Christian Ziegler in a meeting Monday, as he faces rape accusations, The Associated Press reported. Ziegler was suspended by party leadership last month and refused demands to resign amid the claims. The turmoil comes as Florida is set to play a central role in the 2024 elections...
Progressive Rep. Ruben Gallego (D), who is running for independent Sen. Kyrsten Sinema’s seat in Arizona, announced Monday that his campaign raised an impressive $3.3 million in the fourth quarter of 2023, collecting an average of $29 from more than 114,000 donations. Gallego’s fundraising haul exceeds the $2.1 million that former television news anchor and...
Future warming could lead to significant reductions in Colorado’s river flows by mid-century — impacting not only the Centennial State but also its neighbors downstream, a sweeping climate report warned on Monday. Colorado, a “headwaters” state for much of the U.S. West, has seen persistent dry conditions in recent decades, with four of the five most...
White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre slammed former President Trump for labeling as "hostages" those who have been convicted of charges related to the 2021 attack on the Capitol. Jean-Pierre was asked during a press gaggle on Air Force One on Monday what President Biden had to say about Trump’s recent remarks calling Jan. 6...
The special election to fill former Rep. Kevin McCarthy’s (R-Calif.) seat will be held on May 21, California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) announced Monday. McCarthy, who represented California’s 20th Congressional District, resigned from Congress last month following his ouster from the Speakership. In an op-ed published in The Wall Street Journal, McCarthy wrote in December...
Rep. Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) is backing Trump ally Bernie Moreno in the race for his home state's Senate seat. Moreno announced Jordan’s support in a post on X, formerly Twitter, on Monday as Republicans hope to flip the seat held by Sen. Sherrod Brown (D-Ohio) in the upcoming election. In a statement from Moreno’s campaign, Jordan...
Former President Trump said he believed the Civil War could have been avoided through negotiation, though that would've changed the legacy of former President Lincoln. Trump, at an Iowa rally Saturday, said he finds the conflict “fascinating” but “so horrible.” He also noted the high death toll. “So many mistakes were made. See, there was...
Azerbaijani Ecology Minister Mukhtar Babayev, a former executive at the country’s state-owned oil company, will serve as president of the United Nations COP29 climate summit this year, 2023 hosts the United Arab Emirates confirmed. “We look forward to working alongside the COP29 and COP30 Presidencies, and the UNFCC [United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change]...
President Biden on Monday sought to connect the fallout of the Civil War with the aftermath of the 2020 election as he warned truth and basic freedoms were at risk if former President Trump won another term in the White House. Biden drew comparisons between the Civil War, when he said defeated Confederates could not...
The notion that businesses might have a religious ethos is at best odd to some and downright offensive to others. It is useful to remember that the country has been arguing over their existence for well-over 200 years, and America’s roster of religious businesses now includes not only Christian establishments, but spiritual crystal boutiques, botanicas, zen macrobiotic stores, Yemini cafes, and Kosher certification firms.
CNN anchor Sara Sidner announced on Monday she has been diagnosed with Stage 3 breast cancer. “I have never been sick a day of my life. I don’t smoke, I rarely drink. Breast cancer does not run in my family,” Sidner said on CNN's air. “And yet here I am with stage three breast cancer. It is hard to say...
Protesters calling for a cease-fire in Gaza interrupted President Biden’s speech in South Carolina on Monday, the latest example of divisions among Democrats over the fighting in the Middle East. Biden was speaking in Charleston at Mother Emanuel Church, where a white supremacist gunman killed nine worshippers in 2015. As he spoke about how “the...
Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) and a group of other Senate Democrats on Monday announced an investigation into the high costs of asthma inhalers. Sanders, chairman of Senate’s Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee, sent letters to the CEOs of the four biggest manufacturers of inhalers sold in the United States – AstraZeneca, Boehringer Ingelheim, GlaxoSmithKline...
Iowa and New Hampshire have played an outsized role during presidential cycles in winnowing the field in the race for the White House. Since 1972, the Hawkeye State has held the first caucus and the Granite State has held the first primary in the presidential nominating process. How candidates perform in these two states is typically...
The Supreme Court on Monday declined to take up a challenge to the flavored cigarette ban in California, meaning that the state law will remain in place. Tobacco and cigarette companies argued that states, like California, do not have the authority to ban flavored cigarettes under the federal Tobacco Control Act (TCA). The state ban...
Actor Idris Elba is leading a campaign against knife crime in Britain, saying his country is “at a boiling point.” The “Luther” star launched his Don’t Stop Your Future initiative on Monday with a demonstration outside Parliament in London, according to The Associated Press. “Zombie knives [and] machetes need to be banned,” Elba said in a Monday interview...
Rep. Elise Stefanik (R-N.Y.) on Monday called for Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin to resign after he kept administration officials and Congress in the dark about a multiday hospital stay last week. “It is shocking and absolutely unacceptable that the Department of Defense waited multiple days to notify the President, the National Security Council, and the American people that Defense Secretary Austin...
The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) grounded more than 100 Boeing planes Saturday, after an Alaska Airlines flight suffered an inflight blowout that left a large hole in the side of the aircraft and forced it to make an emergency landing. Here’s what to know about the incident and the ongoing fallout: Alaska Airlines flight experiences...
