The Justice Department asked the Supreme Court to enforce a Bureau of Prisons policy banning hormone therapy and accommodations for transgender inmates.
Andrew Bailey cited family reasons for his FBI resignation, expressing confidence that Kash Patel will continue reform efforts and restore public trust.
Spain, Norway and Ireland moved to formally recognize a Palestinian state on Tuesday in a joint effort that represents the rising diplomatic pressure on Israel from Europe amid its war in Gaza. Spanish President Pedro Sanchez called the move “a historic decision that has a single goal, and that is to help Israelis and Palestinians...
Kimberly Turbin thought she was going to be a happy mom. “But that was snatched from me,” she says, the first time she gave birth. Up until then, “I had a perfect pregnancy. I didn’t have any nausea. Nothing was wrong with me,” she says. Her water broke while she was at her friend’s house,...
Former President Trump’s legal fate will rest with New York jurors within days. There is no clear consensus among legal experts who have followed the Manhattan trial closely about whether a hung jury, acquittal or conviction may be ahead for the defendant who faces 34 felony counts while campaigning to return to the White House....
Refusing to commit to accepting the results of the 2024 election has become a litmus test for Republicans jockeying to become former President Trump's running mate, but that's making their Senate GOP colleagues uncomfortable about the prospect of another Jan. 6-style standoff if Trump loses. A group of Senate Republicans are rejecting the idea that...
House Republicans are pressing forward with aggressive plans to mark up and pass their 12 annual funding bills for fiscal year 2025 before the August recess, but some are dialing back expectations after intraparty divisions over spending plagued the process last year. House Republicans took a key step this week in passing legislation out of...
The Biden administration on Tuesday announced new guidelines for ensuring the integrity of carbon credits or offsets. While the practice of buying carbon offsets or credits is voluntary, the administration says it hopes to help ensure that credits being sold are actually credible. Individuals, businesses and other entities can buy these credits to try to...
Severe storms hit parts of the U.S. over Memorial Day weekend, leaving at least 22 people dead and injuring hundreds. The storms hit worst in parts of Texas, Oklahoma, Arkansas and Kentucky, before moving toward the East Coast on Monday evening. Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear (D) announced at a press conference Monday that five people in his...
Iran has grown its supply of enriched uranium in the last few months, according to the latest confidential quarterly report from the United Nations’ watchdog group, the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA). The latest report — seen Monday by news outlets including The Associated Press and Reuters — shows Iran has increased its overall stockpile...
Ted Sarandos, co-chief executive officer of Netflix, said he is confident artificial technology will not replace content creators or take their jobs, in an interview published Friday. He said, however, that although the AI models themselves might not replace the workers, the workers who learn to use AI models effectively might eventually take those jobs....
The highly anticipated primary election runoffs in Texas are guaranteed to make waves Tuesday, as Gov. Greg Abbott (R) and Attorney General Ken Paxton (R) look to finally shut the door on the political careers of a select group of vulnerable Republicans who have wronged them in the past year. Abbott has taken aim this...
Former President Obama honored basketball Hall of Famer Bill Walton, who died Monday from cancer at 71 years old. “Bill Walton was one of the greatest basketball players of all time — a champion at every level and the embodiment of unselfish team play,” Obama wrote in a statement on the social platform X. “He...
North Carolina residents sued their county in federal court to remove a Confederate monument that thanks “faithful slaves” and celebrates the Confederacy. The Concerned Citizens of Tyrrell County, a Black community organizing group, claim the Tyrrell County Confederate Memorial violates the equal protection clause of the 14th Amendment because of its racist language. The more...
Mexico is set to go to the polls Saturday in a critical presidential election to decide who will replace the outgoing President Andrés Manuel López Obrador, a populist whose nationalist stances have defined an on-and-off again relationship with the U.S. López Obrador was elected in 2018. Mexico's presidents are barred from running for a second...
