That’s the title of my new Confirmation Tales post, which illustrates how a president’s delay in making a Supreme Court pick can create a perilous limbo.
Grammy Award-winning opera singer Renée Fleming will no longer participate in a pair of symphony performances at the Kennedy Center this spring, according to a message on the center’s website. Fleming was scheduled to appear with the National Symphony Orchestra (NSO) on May 29-30 in a program titled “Appalachian Spring,” featuring American conductor James Gaffigan....
More than half of the United States is under some sort of winter weather watch or advisory, bringing frigid temperatures to the south of the country and heavy snow to the northeast.
A federal judge on Friday rejected a request from DoorDash and Uber to block two New York City laws requiring food delivery companies to include certain tipping options and prompt customers to tip delivery workers before or during checkout. U.S. District Judge George Daniels ruled that the two companies had failed to show they were...
The top Democrats on the House Judiciary and Oversight and Government Reform committees have requested a visit to the prison where Ghislaine Maxwell is being held, alleging preferential treatment toward Maxwell and a cover-up of sexual abuse at the facility. Reps. Robert Garcia (D-Calif.) and Jamie Raskin (D-Md.) made the demands in a letter to...
The Dropkick Murphys, an Irish American Celtic punk rock band, are showing their support for former D.C. Metropolitan Police officer Michael Fanone after a clip of him confronting a Jan. 6, 2021, supporter while wearing the band’s T-shirt went viral. The band reposted a video of Fanone in a tense exchange with Ivan Raiklin, a...
The state of Michigan is suing major oil companies and an industry association, alleging that they colluded to hamper the adoption of renewable energy and electric vehicles (EVs). In a lawsuit announced Friday, Michigan sued BP, Chevron, ExxonMobil, Shell and the American Petroleum Institute. It alleged they acted as a “cartel” as part of an effort to...
California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) announced just one day after the U.S. officially withdrew from the World Health Organization (WHO) that his state would become the first to join the organization's Global Outbreak Alert and Response Network, in a seeming rebuke of the Trump administration's withdrawal from international collaborations. Newsom traveled this week to the...
The Treasury Department announced its Office of Foreign Assets Control will target and place sanctions on nine Iranian shadow fleet vessels and their owners who allegedly transported hundreds of millions in Iranian oil and petroleum to foreign markets. “Today’s sanctions target a critical component of how Iran generates the funds used to repress its own...
Police officials in Lafayette, Ind., said they have arrested five people in the nonfatal shooting of an Indiana judge and his wife at their home that prompted concerns about escalating threats against the judiciary. Tippecanoe Superior Court Judge Steven Meyer was shot in the arm, and his wife, Kimberly, was struck in the hip on Sunday. The...
Sen. Ed Markey (D-Mass.) called for an investigation Friday into a deal that saw TikTok's American business spun off into a separate entity in order to allow the app to continue operating in the U.S. The deal was finalized Thursday, with TikTok announcing it had officially established the new U.S. venture. “After over a year...
President Trump and Vice President Vance each addressed the annual March for Life rally in Washington on Friday, touting the administration’s record in the anti-abortion movement. “In my first term, I was honored to appoint judges and justices who believed in interpreting the Constitution as written,” Trump said in a video address to attendees. “And...
