President Donald Trump said Sunday that he will look into requests from families of Sept. 11 victims to release records that could shed light on Saudi Arabia's alleged role in the attacks 25 years ago.
Sen. Ruben Gallego, an Arizona Democrat weighing a 2028 run for the presidency, said he supports tearing down the $600 million White House ballroom and $100 million Great Triumphal Arch the Trump administration is currently building.
A plane carrying Rep. Tom Tiffany, who is running for governor in Wisconsin, crash-landed in a lake Saturday night, forcing Mr. Tiffany and the pilot to swim to safety.
A string of new, terrifying warnings from the artificial intelligence community has put Congress, the White House and the A.I. industry on notice: Slow the progress of the rapidly developing technology before a swarm of bots takes over the Internet and "kill all humans."
Police have identified Luigi Mangione, 26, as a person of interest in the deadly shooting of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson in New York City last week, after Mangione was taken into custody in Pennsylvania earlier Monday. Mangione was arrested around 9 a.m. EST at a McDonald's in Altoona, about 280 miles west of New York...
Sen. Adam Schiff (D-Calif.) said President-elect Trump’s threat to throw members of the House committee that investigated rioting at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, in jail is a signal "that no one better hold him to account.” “This is not just about retribution against those of us on the committee," Schiff said on MSNBC’s...
New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy (D) signed a law Monday prohibiting book banning in state libraries and schools. The law says school boards and the governing boards of public libraries need to create standards for how books are removed from shelves and how complaints are addressed. Books will not be allowed to be removed based...
Donald Trump's election has given Americans permission to stop fearing what the say, and his return to the White House may put a dent in the woke culture.
TikTok asked a federal appeals court Monday to put on hold a law that could potentially ban the popular social media app next month as it prepares to appeal to the Supreme Court. TikTok and ByteDance, its China-based parent company, filed an emergency motion with the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit asking...
President-elect Trump's appointed "border czar" said Monday that a potential legislative solution for Dreamers should be contingent on Democrats supporting increased border security and deportation measures. Trump, in an interview with "Meet the Press," said he would work with Democrats to "do something" about Dreamers, people brought to the United States as children who have...
Sixty-two percent of Americans say it’s the federal government’s responsibility to ensure everyone has health care coverage, a survey from Gallup found. The figure is the highest it’s been in more than a decade. It slipped to its low of 42 percent in 2013, during the difficult rollout of the Affordable Care Act (ACA), commonly...
The Supreme Court on Monday declined to intervene in a case involving a group of Wisconsin parents who sued their children’s school district over a policy meant to support transgender students, letting two lower court rulings dismissing the case stand. In a brief, unsigned order, the justices denied the parents’ request to review the lower...
President Biden said Sunday the United States believes Austin Tice is still alive, echoing comments from the family of the journalist who disappeared 12 years ago in Syria. "We believe he's alive. We think we can get him back, but we have no direct evidence of that yet," Biden told reporters after speaking about the...
A Maryland judge has paused a sexual abuse lawsuit against President-elect Trump's Education secretary nominee, Linda McMahon, as another case in the state could affect its outcome. A federal judge concluded another case before the Maryland Supreme Court that deals with the constitutionality of a state law that took away the statute of limitations...
The Supreme Court on Monday declined to take up a defendant’s Second Amendment challenge to Hawaii laws that make it a crime to carry handguns or ammunition in public without a license. In written statements, three of the court’s conservatives said the current posture of the case wasn’t appropriate for the Supreme Court’s intervention, even...
Electing Rahm Emanuel to lead the DNC would be Democrats’ best bet to take advantage of their current crisis to break from their recent past and rediscover its winning ways.
