Civil rights leaders and Democratic lawmakers, alongside hundreds of protesters, rallied on the National Mall on Friday to commemorate the 1963 March on Washington, with many speakers emphasizing the importance of November's midterm elections. The 2026 "Defend the Vote" March on Washington, organized by the Rev. Al Sharpton's National Action Network and Martin Luther King...
Corey Woods (D), the mayor of Tempe, Ariz., on Thursday defended his decision to cancel the city police department’s $80,000 contract with Flock Safety, a top automated license plate reader company, amid reported misuse of its products. “The concern that we had was just that the potential for misuse was too great,” he told NewsNation’s...
Far-right political commentator Milo Yiannopoulos was taken into custody by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and is being held at a detention center, according to the agency’s online detainee database. The British native served as chief of staff for the rapper Ye, formerly Kanye West, and was in Louisiana ahead of Ye’s scheduled concert...
The woman accused of vandalizing the World War II Memorial on the National Mall earlier this month said during a new interview that she did it to “get the nation’s attention.” Melissa Farris, 41, told The Washington Post she graffitied the memorial in an attempt to spotlight what she alleges was wrongdoing by a former...
Republicans are facing backlash for a Senate campaign ad that tied Democratic candidate and former Sen. Sherrod Brown (Ohio) to a highway accident. The victims’ family is speaking out against the use of their story in the political ad. Brown’s race against incumbent Sen. Jon Husted (R-Ohio) is one of the most competitive contests in...
Quebec governing party leader Christine Frechette labeled President Trump as a “real adversary” as she launched her election campaign Thursday, citing the escalating trade war between the U.S. and Canada. “My opponent is named Donald Trump,” said Frechette, who leads the right leaning Coalition Avenir Quebec (CAQ) party. “He’s the real adversary.” Frechette took over...
President Trump signed an executive order Friday establishing the U.S. Space Academy to educate and train the next generation of engineers, operators and service members in the space realm. “That's a big deal. So, you think of West Point, and you think of Annapolis, and you think of the Air Force Academy, and you think...
Civil rights leader the Rev. Al Sharpton, one of the organizers of this year's March on Washington, compared New York Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D) to the late presidential candidate Rep. Shirley Chisholm (D-N.Y.) while introducing her at the event. "I know people; I was Shirley Chisholm's youth director," Sharpton stated on stage while introducing Ocasio-Cortez,...
President Trump awarded NASA's Artemis II crew with the Congressional Space Medal of Honor on Friday during a visit to Johnson Space Center in Houston. U.S. astronauts Reid Wiseman, Christina Koch, Victor Glover, and Canadian Jeremy Hansen all received the honor four months after their historic mission in which the crew flew by the moon....
President Trump posted an update Friday on the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool, quoting an Interior Department official as saying it was “Coming out great!” and will be open in a few weeks. In a Truth Social post, Trump quoted Interior’s Greg Wischer as saying, “I visited the Reflecting Pool this morning, and pictures are included below...
A federal judge on Friday rejected President Trump’s latest bid to fight his criminal conviction outside of New York’s state courts, a strategy aimed at citing presidential immunity, under which Trump could potentially toss charges that stem from a 2016 hush money payment in the trash can. U.S. District Judge Alvin Hellerstein has denied Trump’s attempts to move to federal court three...
Meal delivery companies Blue Apron and Marley Spoon have been hit with a barrage of complaints and threats to cancel after weeks of supply chain issues have left once-loyal customers with nearly empty meal boxes arriving on their doorsteps.
California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) — a likely presidential candidate in 2028 — will head to the South next week on a four-day, three-state sweep covering 10 counties, as part of his "Take it Back Tour," his office announced Friday. As part of the tour, which begins Wednesday, Newsom will visit South Carolina, which the Democratic...
