New Jersey's governor on Thursday called on the state's lieutenant governor, Dale Caldwell, to resign by Friday after a law firm hired by her office concluded he violated the state's ethics and discrimination rules.
TRUMP, THE MIDTERM ELECTIONS, CONGRESS, AND THE WAR. In 2002, in the run-up to the war in Iraq, President George W. Bush went through a long and elaborate process to secure the approval of Congress for going to war. On Oct. 10, 2002, the House passed an Authorization for the Use of Military Force by a […]
Chukwunonso Eze entered the U.S. on a tourist visa in 2015 and received deferred action under both Biden and Trump before he allegedly killed a UMass Dartmouth football player.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) updated its RSV vaccine guidance for seniors for this upcoming respiratory viral season, saying the new recommendations are meant to simplify decision-making for patients and clinicians. The new guidance recommends that everyone over the age of 75 get the RSV vaccine, as well as anyone aged 60...
The State Department on Wednesday confirmed there is no sign of foul play in the recent death of a U.S. Embassy staffer who was working in Ukraine. An unnamed U.S. government employee was working “under chief of mission authority” in Kyiv at the time of his death, State Department spokesperson Matthew Miller said in a press...
Cannabis products will no longer be a banned drug for Division I athletes in championships, the NCAA announced on Tuesday, saying it will instead treat marijuana like alcohol. The Division I Council announced that the decision to remove cannabis products from the banned drug class for its championships and postseason participation in football will be...
Rep. Chuck Edwards (R-N.C.) introduced a bill Wednesday that would keep the House working in August it fails to pass a complete slate of 12 appropriations bills. The “Do Our Job Act” would cancel the August recess — the longest recess of the year — unless all the bills are passed. “The American people don't...
Story at a glance TAMPA, Fla. (WFLA) — An "ultra rare" $500 banknote from the 1930s is set to be auctioned off Wednesday. According to Hansons Auctioneers, the banknote was printed 90 years ago and is part of a major collection of rare USA notes uncovered in Wales. William Hayward, a coin/banknote valuer at Hansons,...
The number of LGBTQ elected officials in the U.S. has gone up nearly 200 percent since 2017, according to a new report from the LGBTQ+ Victory Institute. The report, first reported via NBC News, found that the amount of LGBTQ elected officials has risen 190.8 percent since 2017. It also found that there was a...
Nearly 3 in 4 voters heading into the November election think there should be a warning label applied to social media platforms — similar to those applied to R-rated movies, alcohol and tobacco, according to a new survey. The idea has been controversial, but support spans responding age groups in the latest Quinnipiac University poll,...
Taking a multivitamin every day is not found to help people live long, according to a new study. The new study analyzed data from nearly 400,000 healthy U.S. adults who had been followed for more than 20 years to examine the relationship between taking daily multivitamins and mortality. It was led by researchers from...
Financial secrecy, estimated to hold over $50 trillion across more than 70 jurisdictions, is a system that benefits wealthy elites at the expense of the rest, and is used to conceal wealth and avoid taxes, undermining democracy and allowing adversaries to use our financial secrecy against us.
CNN anchor John Berman pushed back on Wednesday at former GOP presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy’s suggestion that terms of the first presidential debate on Thursday will give President Biden an unfair advantage over former President Trump. In an interview on “CNN News Central,” Ramaswamy, now a staunch Trump backer, said Biden had a series of...
Former President Trump has a 4-point lead over President Biden nationally, according to a new poll. The Quinnipiac University survey, published Wednesday, found that Trump garnered 49 percent support to Biden’s 45 percent. That’s a significant improvement for the former president over last month’s survey, which found Biden with a single point lead. With third-party...
The Supreme Court is poised to allow Idaho doctors to resume performing abortions in medical emergencies, according to Bloomberg, citing an opinion accidentally posted online Wednesday morning. In a brief statement, the court acknowledged that a document had been "inadvertently" posted on its website, reiterating that an opinion on the Idaho case has not officially been...
