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In major cities across America, real estate worth billions of dollars is sitting empty.

John Bolton, national security adviser, weighed in on the jury deliberations in former President Trump’s criminal hush money case Wednesday, saying a guilty verdict would not be a “good look” for Trump’s chances of wooing independent voters. “I don’t think a conviction, even in a Manhattan courtroom, helps anybody. He will still be, potentially, a...

Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) led 23 Democratic senators Thursday in a call for the Justice Department to investigate allegations of price-fixing by major oil companies. In their letter, the senators called for a full probe into possible industry violations of the Sherman Act, the 1890 law barring monopolies and anticompetitive agreements. They specifically...

Amazon announced Thursday the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has authorized its Prime Air delivery drones to operate beyond the visual line of sight (BVLOS), clearing a major hurdle to the tech giant’s plans to expand the reach of its deliveries. Amazon said it has worked for years to develop and refine its “detect-and-avoid technology” to...

Remnants of ballistic missiles produced in North Korea have been found throughout Ukraine, further confirming U.S. accusations that Pyongyang is arming Russia's war effort, according to a new unclassified report released Wednesday by the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA). Since November 2023, the west has assessed that North Korea has been providing artillery shells, rockets and missile to...

These new findings about the bird flu were published last week in Nature Communications.

More than two-thirds of voters believe a guilty verdict for former President Trump in his criminal hush money trial would not impact their vote, according to a new survey. The Marist poll, published Thursday, found that 67 percent of respondents say a guilty verdict in the case would not affect their vote, while 17 percent...

Rep. Jamaal Bowman (D-N.Y.) tore into former U.N. Ambassador Nikki Haley Wednesday, calling her a “disgusting human being” after she was photographed writing “Finish them” on an Israeli bomb during a visit to the country this week. The message on the shell, photographed and celebrated by Israel’s former U.N. ambassador Danny Danon, read “Finish them!...

This backtracking on pay has significant consequences for students seeking careers in public service.

Trump is promising to give big tax cuts to everybody, and to protect Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid. But the truth is that his proposed tax cuts will benefit the wealthy at the expense of low- and middle-income Americans, and he will cut entitlements to cover any lost tax revenues. 

There is no way Democrats will ever agree to any deal that only decreases spending. And there is also no way that Republicans  can reduce spending even if given the authority to do so.

Former President Trump labeled Fox News’s Shannon Bream as “naive” Wednesday, after she pushed back on his attorney’s assertion that his criminal hush money trial was in some way directed by the White House. Bream said in an interview with Trump attorney and spokesperson Alina Habba that President Biden is “not responsible” for the trial,...

Zelenskyy has survived more than a dozen Russian assassination attempts, including a recent insider threat.

Twelve New York jurors, including two lawyers, spent much of Wednesday afternoon deliberating whether former President Trump is guilty of 34 felony charges that boil down to an alleged fraudulent coverup of a pay-for-silence scheme to keep 2016 voters in the dark about an account of sex with a porn star. Trump is not known...