The government funding drama intensifies as House Republicans can only lose two votes while Democrats demand concessions to avoid a potential shutdown by Sept. 30.
DC Comics canceled its Batman comic book series spin-off "Red Hood" after screenshots of its writer joking about the assassination of conservative activist Charlie Kirk circulated online.
President Trump on Wednesday announced the United States had struck a trade deal with South Korea ahead of his Aug. 1 tariff deadline, putting 15 percent tariffs on goods from there. Trump said on a TruthSocial post that South Korea will make $350 billion in investments in the U.S. and purchase $100 billion of liquefied...
Police in Danville, Va., said Wednesday that they were “investigating” after a City Council member was “set on fire.” According to the release, officers went late in the morning “to the 700 block of Main Street for a report of a male being set on fire.” They found that the man set on fire was...
Francesca Albanese, the United Nations special rapporteur on the occupied Palestinian territories, said during a recent interview that sanctions levied against her by the U.S. government are going to “hurt me” and have serious implications on her life. “It’s very serious to be on the list of the people sanctioned by the U.S.,” Albanese told...
Canada has had three times as many measles cases as the U.S. this year, according to the Canadian government and Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) data. Canada has faced 4,206 measles cases this year, according to a government website, with 1,450 in Alberta, 2,301 in Ontario and 140 in British Columbia. However, the...
Texas Republicans introduced a proposed set of new House lines on Wednesday, putting the party one step closer to gaining five seats in 2026. The new proposed map is likely to most directly impact lawmakers situated near or in the Dallas-Fort Worth area, Austin, Houston and the southern border, as Republicans look to net five...
Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.), the former House Speaker, backed a congressional stock trading ban on Wednesday after a Senate panel narrowly voted to advance the bipartisan proposal. The Honest Act, introduced by Sen. Josh Hawley (R-Mo.), was originally called the Preventing Elected Leaders from Owning Securities and Investments, or PELOSI, Act — a nod to...
Rep. Eric Swalwell (D-Calif.) challenged Fox News’s Greg Gutfeld to a bench press contest on Wednesday after Gutfeld mocked him on his show the prior night. “Here’s a deal for @Gutfeldfox. (Never heard of him til he spent 8 mins criticizing what I bench press),” Swalwell said in a post on the social platform X,...
Samuel L. Jackson is defending wind farms in a video released a day after the Trump administration said it was considering additional hurdles for wind energy development. "Motherf---ing wind farms: Loud, ugly, harmful to nature. Who says that?" Jackson said as he shook his head in a video released Wednesday by the European energy company Vattenfall. "These...
President Trump on Wednesday went off on one his closest allies in Congress, Sen. Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) over voting in committee on a bill that would ban stock trading by lawmakers, presidents and vice presidents, arguing that Hawley teamed up with Democrats to advance the measure. The bill would ban congressional lawmakers and their spouses...
Brown University on Wednesday announced a deal with the Trump administration that ends three investigations into the institution and restores research funding that was withheld from it. The administration halted more than $500 million to Brown back in April and had opened probes assessing the university’s compliance with antidiscrimination laws. The deal restores that money,...
