Last Thursday, Congress ended the longest Department of Homeland Security shutdown in American history. For 75 days, tens of thousands of TSA officers worked unpaid. More than 1,100 of...
A group of Senate Democrats are investigating an early March attack on U.S. troops stationed in Kuwait, where six service members were killed and another 20 were injured amid the U.S. war with Iran. The four Democrats - Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.), Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.), Kirsten Gillibrand (D-N.Y.), and Mark Kelly (D-Ariz.) - all members of...
A new (and very specific) speed limit has been posting in Wisconsin at the Outagamie County Recycling and Solid Waste facility. Drivers entering the facility need to drive no faster than 17.3 mph.
A fresh wave of conspiracy theories is rolling through social media across the country following Saturday night’s attempted assassination of President Trump at the annual White House Correspondents Association dinner. The unfounded theories largely capitalize on short video snippets of those in the room and initial breaking news reports filed moments after a gunman tried to breach a ballroom at...
House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) on Monday called White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt a “stone-cold liar” after she blamed Democrats for the Saturday shooting at the White House Correspondents' Association dinner. “I think that what's interesting to me, as you pointed out, is that the so-called White House press secretary, who's a disgrace,...
The decision by the Center for Disease Control and Prevention to stop recommending giving infants a dose of the hepatitis B vaccine within 24 hours after birth is likely to lead to hundreds of more infections, worse health outcomes and millions of dollars in higher costs, according to new research published Monday in JAMA Pediatrics. The CDC in December approved the change to longstanding practice following...
The Trump administration will pay two energy companies to abandon their offshore wind ambitions and invest in fossil fuels instead. The Interior Department announced on Monday that it would issue a refund to Global Infrastructure Partners, which is part of BlackRock and Golden State Wind, for the money they paid for the opportunity to build...
House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) is standing by his promise to use “maximum warfare” in the battle over redistricting, even following Saturday’s shooting at a press gala where President Trump was in attendance. In the wake of the shooting, a number of conservatives have hammered Jeffries’s choice of language, saying the Democratic leader was...
Weijia Jiang, the president of the White House Correspondents' Association (WHCA), said Monday that the Washington Hilton donated roughly 2,600 meals that went unserved after the association’s annual dinner was cut short Saturday by a gunman. Jiang wrote on the social platform X that hotel staff “freeze dried the steak and lobster for longer shelf...
The suspected gunman involved in Saturday's shooting at the White House Correspondents' Association (WHCA) dinner is slated to appear in court Monday. Early indications are that likely he was targeting President Trump and other top officials. White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt added a press briefing to the schedule; she'll appear in the briefing room...
House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) said Monday that the security at the White House Correspondents’ Association dinner appeared “lax,” recounting the night during a Fox News interview on Monday morning. “I can tell you, from a layman's perspective, it did look a little lax in terms of, as everyone's now noted, getting into the building....
The U.S. military killed three “narco-terrorists” in a strike on an alleged drug trafficking boat in the eastern Pacific on Sunday, U.S. Southern Command (Southcom) claimed on social media. In a video posted on social platform X, the command showed a boat moving across the water for several seconds before it exploded into flames. Southcom repeated...
First lady Melania Trump is calling on ABC to punish comedian Jimmy Kimmel over a sketch during which the late-night host joked that she had the "glow" of an "expectant widow." Kimmel's sketch aired on Thursday evening, just two days before a shooting outside the annual White House Correspondents' Association Dinner, where authorities say an...
