It was a typical school day in December 1995. I was teaching fifth grade. The topic was the Constitutional Convention. Fifteen minutes into the lesson, it was clear that...
An armed assailant lunged at the Democratic candidate for Ohio governor, Amy Acton, on Sunday during a campaign stop at the Canfield Fair, injuring several people, campaign officials said.
President Trump on Sunday posted a map of New Mexico labeled "New America" following the spread of a since-debunked online hoax claiming he had signed an executive order renaming the state. The map Trump shared on Truth Social showed a large "X" over "Mexico" in the state's name, with the word "America" labeled below it....
At least five people are dead following an Amazon cargo plane crash at Miami International Airport (MIA), Miami-Dade County officials confirmed Sunday afternoon. The airplane overran the airport's runway at around 2 p.m., according to airport officials. The fatal crash initially caused a complete ground stop at MIA, though two of its four runways are...
President Trump on Sunday announced that the White House helipad — which was redone at his request last month — has been completed. Trump posted a photo on Truth Social of former President Eisenhower on the White House lawn before departing in an Air Force H-13J helicopter in July 1957, becoming the first U.S. president...
Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) on Wednesday slammed President Trump’s sweeping new tariffs, calling them a “huge tax” on the average American family. “This is a huge tax on American families, all — all — to help billionaires get a tax cut,” Schumer said at the Capitol on Wednesday, suggesting the tariffs announced are...
Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) on Wednesday swore in newly elected Florida Reps. Jimmy Patronis (R) and Randy Fine (R). The two won special elections Tuesday, and their quick entry to the House gives Johnson some additional room to navigate the GOP’s razor-thin margin. The House now stands at 220 Republicans and 213 Democrats, meaning Johnson...
A coalition of health researchers, unions and other stakeholders filed a lawsuit Wednesday challenging the abrupt cancellation of billions of dollars in research grants by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) as unconstitutional. The coalition, represented by the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), argues the administration’s “ongoing ideological purge of hundreds of critical research projects”...
A federal judge in Arkansas permanently blocked a law requiring age verification for social media accounts, deeming it unconstitutional. The law was stopped by U.S. District Judge Timothy L. Brooks of the Western District of Arkansas. In a Monday ruling, the judge said the law, known as Act 689, would violate the First Amendment rights...
Senate Republicans are bracing for the passage of a bipartisan bill to undo President Trump’s 25-percent tariff against Canada, which would deal Trump an embarrassing setback on “Liberation Day,” an occasion the president has proclaimed to announce a new round of tariffs. Four Republicans — Sens. Rand Paul (Ky.), Susan Collins (Maine), Lisa Murkowski (Alaska)...
Democratic strategist James Carville said he believes President Trump’s tariffs are not motivated by policy but instead just represent the president's "ego playing itself out in public." Carville joined MSNBC on Tuesday, a day before Trump’s declared “Liberation Day,” when the president planned to announce reciprocal tariffs on various countries. Host Ari Melber asked Carville...
If Donald Trump and Elon Musk were serious about giving their novel experiment in “government efficiency” a chance to be done right, they would stand down DOGE operations until sound security guardrails can be put in place.
New York City Mayor Eric Adams (D) plugged FBI Director Kash Patel’s book on the “deep state” at the end of his remarks reacting to the corruption case against him officially being dropped. Adams said in his remarks on Wednesday that the case against him should never have been brought and maintained that he didn’t...
The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has fired all of the workers in its program that seeks to help low-income Americans pay their energy bills. Everyone who had been working on the Low Income Home Energy Assistance Program (LIHEAP) was let go on Tuesday, according to now-former employee Andrew Germain. “Every single federal...
