President Trump announced Saturday he approved new fuel economy standards that eliminate an electric vehicle (EV) mandate introduced under the Biden administration. The 2024 EV mandate aimed to facilitate the transition from gas-powered to EVs by setting new pollution standards for automakers' vehicle fleets, which were intentionally difficult to meet without introducing new electric or...
Former Kennedy Center employees accused the iconic performing arts venue's leadership in a letter to Congress of halting planned waterproofing repairs earlier this year. In the Thursday letter, David Seide, an attorney representing the whistleblowers, shared internal documents which he said challenged the Kennedy Center board's claims that these leaks constituted the venue's immediate closure. ...
The attorney general’s office of New Jersey is reviewing whether former President Trump’s recent conviction in the New York hush money case could impact him holding liquor licenses at three of his golf courses in the state. A spokesperson for the attorney general’s office confirmed that the liquor licenses at Trump National Golf Club Colts...
The shipping lane into the Port of Baltimore fully reopened Monday evening, allowing full capacity cargo traffic into the port for the first time since the Francis Scott Key Bridge was struck and collapsed in March. The bridge was struck in a key central support pylon by a large cargo ship, sending the entire structure...
The wife of Supreme Court Samuel Alito said that she wants to get back at people who raised a controversy after she and the justice were criticized last month for flying politically affiliated flags at their homes. “You come after me, I’m gonna give it back to you,” Martha-Ann Alito said in the recording of...
House Republicans noticeably forgo language limiting access to the abortion pill mifepristone in their newly unveiled agricultural funding bill, after a similar effort last year helped doom their 2024 plan while exposing intraparty divides on the issue. The powerful GOP-led House Appropriations Committee unveiled the legislation Monday afternoon, as leaders pursue an aggressive schedule to...
A search is underway after a military aircraft carrying the vice president of Malawi went missing Monday morning. Malawi President Lazarus Chakwera addressed his nation on Monday after he was notified that the plane carrying Malawi Vice President Saulos Chilima, former Malawi first lady Shanil Dzimbiri and eight others went missing. The plane had left...
President Biden touted the new FBI crime data released Monday, saying that the drop in violent crime is "no accident." The FBI released new preliminary numbers on violent crime for the first quarter of 2024 on Monday, showing that violent crime overall decreased by 15 percent. Biden boasted about these numbers in a statement, saying...
President Biden’s best chance of a second term may lie in presenting himself as the “Stop Trump” candidate — at least according to a new poll. A CBS News/YouGov survey released Sunday found that, among likely Biden voters, twice as many were motivated by opposition to former President Trump as by support of the president,...
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) said Monday that the “progressive movement is undermined” by the antisemitism that is on the rise in the U.S. Ocasio-Cortez hosted a discussion with Jewish Council for Public Affairs CEO Amy Spitalnick and Stacy Burdett, a former staffer at the Anti-Defamation League, on Monday to discuss antisemitism and the “fight for...
A federal advisory panel on Monday voted in favor of recommending Eli Lilly's new drug that is under consideration for its potential to slow the progression of Alzheimer's disease. The Food and Drug Administration's (FDA) Peripheral and Central Nervous System Drugs Advisory Committee met Monday to discuss Eli Lilly's donanemab. The committee's voting members were...
Newly revealed footage from Jan. 6, 2021, shows Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer (N.Y.) berating Trump administration officials over former President Trump’s refusal to order the National Guard to break up the Capitol riots. Members of Congress were evacuated to Fort McNair when rioters violently breached the Capitol. Schumer could be seen in the video,...
The Pentagon on Monday pushed back on what it said were “inaccurate” reports on social media that Israel used the U.S.-built pier off Gaza during a deadly hostage rescue mission over the weekend. U.S. officials have said American intelligence was used to help rescue the four hostages in an Israeli Defense Forces operation that Gaza's...
The federal government has borrowed roughly $1.2 trillion in the eight-month period ending in May, the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) estimated in a report on Monday. The nonpartisan budget scorekeeper said the figure is $38 billion above the federal budget deficit recorded during the same period in fiscal 2023. Total outlays were up 8 percent...
