President Biden said Friday that he does not believe the United States is in a proxy war with Iran following strikes against Houthi rebels in Yemen. Biden was asked during a stop at a small business in Allentown, Pa., whether the U.S. was engaged in a proxy war and simply responded, "No." He said the...
Six passengers who were on the Alaska Airlines flight forced to make an emergency landing last week after experiencing a blowout mid-air, filed a class-action lawsuit Thursday against Boeing — the aircraft's manufacturer. The suit was filed in the Superior Court of Washington for King County by the the Stritmatter Firm on behalf of the...
President Biden on Friday said that while he still has confidence in Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin, he displayed a lapse in judgment for not informing him of his hospitalization. In his first time weighing in personally on the controversy surrounding Austin, Biden replied “I do,” when asked if he has confidence in the secretary. When...
The U.S. Embassy in Bogota is advising Americans to put the dating apps away if they plan on visiting Colombia after a string of "suspicious" deaths in tourist hotspot Medellín.
A Biden administration rule issued Friday would establish new fees for methane emissions, one of the most potent drivers of climate change, under the provisions of the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA). The Methane Emissions Reduction Program, an enforcement provision in the 2022 climate law, imposes fees on excess emissions, and those fees will increase over...
Secretary of State Antony Blinken has returned from a seven-day trip in the Middle East, where he visited nine countries to discuss the ongoing war between Israel and Hamas and the conflicts that threaten a wider regional war. According to his spokesperson, Matt Miller, the Arab nations are ready to partner with the U.S. on...
The Supreme Court said Friday it would consider whether local laws prohibiting homeless people from sleeping on public property is cruel and unusual punishment barred by the Constitution. The Oregon city of Grants Pass asked the high court to review a lower court’s decision to block it from enforcing its public camping ordinance, writing...
A Connecticut man pleaded guilty Friday to Capitol breach charges related to the Jan. 6, 2021, riots. Gino DiGiovanni Jr., a former city alderman who ran an unsuccessful mayoral bid in Derby, Conn., — a town outside of New Haven — made his plea by videoconference. His sentencing is set for April 15, and he...
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Just 22 percent of managers said their full-time, four-day workweek employees put in eight or fewer hours on their workdays.
The Supreme Court agreed Friday to hear Starbucks’s appeal of a decision ordering the coffee chain to reinstate seven terminated employees, who were part of a high-profile union drive and became known as the “Memphis Seven.” With implications for labor organizing more broadly, the justices will take up the case to decide the proper standard...
The Justice Department alleged Friday that Texas border officers erected additional concertina wire and fence on the banks of the Rio Grande, making it impossible for Border Patrol agents to do their jobs along the busiest parts of the U.S.-Mexico border. The court filing Friday continues a back-and-forth between Texas and the Justice Department over...
Story at a glance The rising cost of housing is keeping many Gen Zers from living on their own. A recent Credit Karma survey of 1,249 U.S. adults found that 31 percent of Gen Z live at home with a parent or other family member. And this number could go up. Among Gen...
The White House said Friday that President Biden is confident in his authority to conduct retaliatory strikes against the Houthi rebels in Yemen, following criticism from some Democrats that he bypassed congressional approval. “We’re very comfortable and confident in the legal authorities that the president exercised to conduct these strikes,” White House national security spokesman...
There were nearly 2,000 flight cancellations Friday across the United States as a winter storm targets the Midwest, bringing blizzard conditions and bitterly cold temperatures. The airport with the most incoming and outgoing cancellations is Chicago’s O’Hare International Airport. More than 400 outgoing flights have been canceled and more than 380 flights heading into O’Hare...
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Former President Trump is set to rally in New Hampshire just days before the state’s first-in-the-nation primary. Trump will rally supporters in Manchester on Jan. 20, ahead of the primary on Jan. 23, his campaign announced Friday. He's also planning to deliver remarks in Atkinson next Tuesday, a day after the Iowa caucuses kick off...
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) confirmed Friday that 2023 was the hottest single year ever recorded, confirming a determination earlier this week from the European Union’s Copernicus Climate Change Service. In its annual global climate report, NOAA found that average land and ocean temperatures reached 2.12 degrees Fahrenheit above the 20th-century average last...
Federal prosecutors in New York said Friday that they will seek the death penalty in the case of the mass shooter who killed 10 Black people at a Buffalo supermarket in 2022. Payton Gendron is serving life in prison after he pleaded guilty to state murder and domestic terror charges for the crime last year....
Hunter Biden on Friday reversed course and said he would agree to give closed-door testimony to Congress if the House Oversight and Judiciary committees issue new subpoenas. Hunter Biden’s lawyer, Abbe Lowell, made the offer in a letter on Friday to Oversight Committee Chair James Comer (R-Ky.) and Judiciary Committee Chair Jim Jordan (R-Ohio), the...
Rep. Thomas Massie (R-Ky.) got into an argument Friday with CNN anchor Kate Bolduan over her preparedness for an interview on Israel legislation. The two went back and forth about a resolution that Massie voted against in November that affirmed Israel’s right to exist as an independent state. The tension started when Bolduan asked Massie...
A bipartisan Senate duo is calling for the inspector general of the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) to open an investigation into the recent hack of the agency’s account on X, the platform formerly known as Twitter. Sens. Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) and Cynthia Lummis (R-Wyo.) urged SEC Inspector General Deborah Jeffrey in a letter on...
The Oregon Supreme Court enabled former President Trump to remain on the state’s primary ballot Friday, declining to take up a challenge to his eligibility, for now. The court said it would instead wait for the U.S. Supreme Court’s upcoming decision on whether Trump can be disqualified from the ballot under the 14th Amendment. “Because...
The State and Treasury departments announced new sanctions Friday aimed at damaging financial support for Houthi rebels in Yemen. The sanctions come a day after joint U.S.-U.K. airstrikes Thursday hit more than a dozen targets in Yemen, killing five people, Houthi leadership said. The attack was in response to a Houthi attack on civilian shipping...
A majority of Americans in a new survey say they would support the Supreme Court either disqualifying former President Trump from presidential ballots across the country or letting states decide whether to include him on their ballots. Nearly one-third — 30 percent — of respondents in the ABC News/Ipsos survey said they think the justices...
