Every week political cartoonists throughout the country and across the political spectrum apply their ink-stained skills to capture the foibles, memes, hypocrisies and other head-slapping events in the world...
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.
Business and advertising groups are demanding “significant changes” to a landmark data privacy bill slated for a markup on Thursday. House Energy and Commerce Chair Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-Wash.) and ranking member Frank Pallone (D-N.J.) last week circulated a discussion draft of the American Privacy Rights Act (APRA), which would allow individuals to opt out...
Story at a glance Hunger worsens in the summer for many children who rely on school lunches for regular meals when class is in session. A new federal program aims to help mitigate that "summer food gap" by offering funds for millions of families to put toward groceries. Some families have begun to get...
Protecting just over one percent of land as nature preserves could prevent most extinctions, according to new research published on Monday. The research in the Frontiers in Science journal proposed preventing futher extinctions by protecting areas it labeled as Conservative Imperatives, which it defined as "currently unprotected sites that contain rare, threatened, and narrow-range endemic species.”...
It time for the federal government to recognize its leadership role on this IVF coverage. Legislation is the only lasting solution to a problem that cannot be solved by the executive branch alone.
Israeli’s high court ruled Tuesday that ultra-Orthodox men must be drafted for compulsory military service, a major shift that could break up Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s government. For decades, ultra-Orthodox men in Israel have been exempt from laws requiring all Jewish Israelis to perform military service. Critics said the laws discriminated against the rest of...
Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said it would be a “waste of time” to attempt to debunk former President Trump’s arguments in a debate. Clinton explained in an opinion piece, published Tuesday in The New York Times, that she is the only person to have debated both President Biden and Trump, adding that she...
Former President Trump is leading President Biden in the swing state of Georgia by 5 points as the two prepare to square off this week in a debate in the state's capital, according to a new survey. The poll, released Tuesday by the Atlanta Journal-Constitution (AJC), shows Trump garnering 43 percent support to Biden's 38...
Former President Trump called on President Biden to take a drug test ahead of Thursday's presidential debate, noting he will also take one. "DRUG TEST FOR CROOKED JOE BIDEN??? I WOULD, ALSO, IMMEDIATELY AGREE TO ONE!!!" Trump wrote Monday on Truth Social. The former president and his allies have repeatedly suggested Biden could take a...
However much fun comics had with Trump’s dismal record on the Ten Commandments, the real problem with the Louisiana law is that it’s a clear violation of the First Amendment’s religious freedom clause prohibiting the creation of any state religion — as the Supreme Court has already ruled.
The American healthcare system is facing a fresh challenge as drug shortages are a rising issue for many patients. In the first quarter of 2024, there were a record 323 drugs in short supply in the U.S., according to the American Society of Health-System Pharmacists and the University of Utah. Chemotherapy, ADHD medication, generics and injectables...
