The 96th Academy Awards are set to begin Sunday night – one hour earlier than usual. The ceremony will kick off at 7 p.m. EDT, with some of the year’s biggest films expected to win big. How to watch The ceremony will air on local ABC stations for cable and satellite subscribers. Viewers can also...
Both pilots of an Indonesian commercial airliner fell asleep during a flight in January, causing the plane to veer off course. The pilots flew for nearly half an hour with no supervision. The Indonesian National Transportation Safety Committee report released Friday outlines how the Batik Air pilots were asleep for about 28 minutes just before descending into...
Sen. James Lankford (R-Okla.) reiterated his call to "lock the clock" on Sunday as most of the U.S. transitioned to daylight saving time overnight. Lankford had co-sponsored Sen. Marco Rubio's (R-Fla.) Sunshine Protection Act that would make daylight saving time the permanent time in the U.S. and that passed the Senate in 2022. Rubio renewed...
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in a Sunday interview fired back at President Biden’s suggestion that his policies were only hurting Israel. “I don't know exactly what the president meant, but if he meant by that that I'm pursuing private policies against the majority, the wish of the majority of Israelis, and that this is...
Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) hit Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Sunday for how he is running Israel amid its war with the militant group Hamas. Sanders has repeatedly called on the U.S. to halt its military aid to Israel, citing the humanitarian crisis that has been unfolding in Gaza for months. He reiterated his...
Republican National Committee (RNC) co-chair Lara Trump said the top priority of the party is “protecting the vote” in November’s elections. Fox News host Maria Bartiromo asked Trump, the daughter-in-law of former President Trump, what her top priority is now that she was elected as the RNC co-chair. She pointed to recent comments made by...
Kate Middleton, Princess of Wales, appeared on Sunday in her first official photo since she underwent abdominal surgery in January. Her notable absence from public appearances has spurred far-fetched rumors online about her whereabouts and provoked questions about her wellbeing. In the photo, Middleton sits in an armchair, flanked by two children, with the third...
New York Times columnist Ezra Klein walked back his previous demands for President Biden not to run for reelection, calling his State of the Union speech a “comeback” for his electoral hopes on Sunday. “If the Joe Biden who showed up to deliver the State of the Union address last week is the Joe Biden...
When words are redefined to delegitimize Israel, their actual meaning and power vanish. They instead become specious talking points for those who seek to deny the right of the world's only Jewish state to exist.
Rep. Nancy Mace (R-S.C.) on Sunday sparred with ABC’s George Stephanopoulos over her recent endorsement of former President Trump, accusing the anchor of “shaming” her for being a rape victim in his line of questioning. Stephanopoulos played a video clip on “This Week” of Mace delivering testimony about being a victim of rape shortly before...
Rep. Byron Donalds (R-Fla.) chastised President Biden for criticizing the Supreme Court during his State of the Union speech, calling the comments “disgusting.” Biden called out the court for overturning the Roe v. Wade abortion precedent in a case, a move that Democrats have capitalized on for their campaign platforms. In his speech, Biden said he...
The veteran unemployment rate is below that of non-veterans, but obtaining a job is only half the battle. After years spent training for battle or deployed into combat zones, most former service members still struggle to find satisfaction in a civilian work environment. “When you join the military, you're going to for a very specific...
Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) and other Republicans went after President Biden on Sunday for walking back remarks he made during his State of the Union address, calling a man accused of murder an “illegal.” The man, accused of killing university student Laken Riley in Georgia, is a migrant from Venezuela who was not authorized to...
Americans are split in a near-even divide between President Biden, former President Trump and neither on who they trust to do better as president, according to a new poll. Neither Biden nor Trump has the upper hand, with the ABC News/Ipsos poll finding that 36 percent of respondents trust Trump to do a better job...
Sen. Tim Scott (R-S.C.) said Sunday that the next Republican Senate leader needs to be able to work "hand in glove" with former President Trump. Fox News' Maria Bartiromo asked Scott on "Sunday Morning Futures" who he would like to see as the next Republican leader in the Senate. Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.)...
Rep. Adam Schiff (D-Calif.) said Rep. Katie Porter (D-Calif.) "congratulated" him on clinching the Democratic nomination for California's Senate race despite her claims of a "rigged" election last week. "She congratulated me, which I certainly viewed as a concession. And she was very gracious in her message to me. And I appreciated the call. Look,...
House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) said he was not concerned about polling numbers showing President Biden performing worse among Black voters than in 2020. In a CBS News poll this week, Biden led Trump among Black voters 76-23, while he carried about 90 percent of the group four years earlier. “The polling has been...
Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) urged his progressive supporters to vote for President Biden in November, despite the difference in opinion over his response to the Israel-Hamas war and the growing popularity of protest vote movements in Democratic primaries. Sanders, who has pushed Biden to back a temporary cease-fire in the Israel-Hamas war and cut off...
Rep. Tony Gonzales (R-Texas) said Americans are "frustrated" at the situation on the border after two National Guardsmen and a Border Patrol agent died in a helicopter crash flying over the southern border of Texas. "This is part where I think a lot of Americans are frustrated. You know, just a few days ago, we had Americans...
Rep. Adam Schiff (D-Calif.) said that the Intelligence Community should "dumb down" briefings for former President Trump as the presumptive GOP nominee receives classified information once he becomes the nominee, over concerns about whether Trump could share the information. Schiff hit Trump over his criminal charges for mishandling classified information and other legal cases in an NBC...
A panel of pundits on CNN's "State of the Union" Sunday argued over President Biden's use of "illegal" in his address to Congress last week. Biden responded to Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.), who had given him a pin honoring 22-year-old Laken Riley. She later heckled him over Riley, a Georgia student who police say was killed...
Lawmakers should shift the financial responsibility of collecting, recycling and reusing plastic packaging materials from consumers and municipalities to the producers of plastic products, by establishing a national Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR) policy.
North Carolina Attorney General Josh Stein (D) said Sunday he would welcome President Biden campaigning for him in the swing state. CNN co-host Jake Tapper asked Stein on "State of the Union" if he would want Biden to campaign for him in North Carolina — a swing state Democrats are hoping to flip in 2024...
Sen. James Lankford (R-Okla.) jabbed President Biden over his comments on the failed border bill in the State of the Union address last week. Co-host Jake Tapper played a video of Lankford mouthing, "That's true," when Biden said the failed bipartisan Senate deal on the border would have hired more border patrol agents and immigration...
The White House on Sunday chastised Sen. Katie Britt (R-Ala.) after multiple news organizations fact-checked a portion of her rebuttal to President Biden's State of the Union in which she told the story of a migrant who was sexually abused. "Instead of telling more debunked lies to justify opposing the toughest bipartisan border legislation in...
