The Senate passed landmark legislation Monday night intended to regulate the Wild West of college sports compensation and transfers, teeing up a vote in the House after the November midterm elections.
California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) on Friday announced a $44.9 billion deficit in his revised proposal for the 2024-25 state budget, while proposing a series of cuts to close the spending gap. The shortfall includes $27.6 billion detailed in his proposal, plus $17.3 billion in cuts that the state Legislature proactively instituted a few weeks...
Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) reflected on the response to her effort to oust Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) earlier this week, recalling “deafening” boos. “It was deafening,” Greene said on former White House aide Steve Bannon’s “War Room” show Friday. “Imagine walking into an arena where everyone hates you in that moment.” The Georgia Republican...
For the first time since 2005, Earth is bracing to be hit by a powerful, G4 geomagnetic storm. NOAA’s Space Weather Prediction Center (SWPC) expects the arrival of at least five coronal mass ejections — or CMEs — as soon as Friday evening.
Sen. Sherrod Brown (Ohio), considered one of the most vulnerable Democratic incumbents this year, will join Sen. Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.) in supporting a resolution to repeal Biden administration rules allowing some China-made battery parts to qualify for an electric vehicle tax credit, Brown’s office confirmed to The Hill. Under the final rule, issued by the...
Former President Trump said his son Barron, who recently turned 18, is a “smart one” who he trusts to advise him on politics. Trump said his youngest son, who will be making his debut in the political sphere at this year’s Republican National Convention, “likes” the industry. November will mark the first presidential election in...
In the Gaza Strip, fuel is one of the most valuable commodities, essential to powering everything from generators for hospitals, sanitation services, and trucks to deliver critical humanitarian assistance to hundreds of thousands of displaced Palestinians living in desperate conditions. Scott Anderson, based in Rafah as the senior deputy director of affairs for the United...
Michael Moore’s misstatement of the history is more fuel to the rhetorical fires of violence to achieve change by any means necessary. Getting this history right is important to the critical role our campuses play in civic discourse.
Federal officials on Friday pledged to reimburse farmers for some of the costs associated with keeping their herds protected from an outbreak of the avian flu virus that’s rapidly spreading among dairy cows. The funding includes up to $28,000 over the next 120 days to help individual farms test cattle and bolster biosecurity efforts to...
Former President Trump complained Friday that it was a "joke" and a "disgrace" after the judge overseeing his hush money trial directed prosecutors to inform Michael Cohen, their star witness, to stop speaking publicly about the case as his testimony approaches. "There is no gag order for Michael Cohen. What the judge did was amazing, actually. Everybody...
The U.S. on Friday announced a $400 million military aid package for Ukraine, the third slated for the embattled country after the passage last month of a national security supplemental that included $61 billion for Kyiv. The new package includes Patriot air defense munitions and Stinger anti-aircraft missiles, which have been crucial to defending Ukraine's...
A new poll from the health policy nonprofit KFF found that one in eight adults say they've taken a GLP-1 agonist, the obesity and diabetes medications that include Ozempic, Mounjaro and Zepbound. Among those surveyed, 12 percent said they had used a GLP-1 agonist, with six percent saying they're currently using one. The majority —...
Holland Taylor and Broadway star Ana Villafañe are set to star as a pair of lawmakers in a new play seemingly inspired by real-life members of Congress, Democratic Reps. Nancy Pelosi (Calif.) and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (N.Y.). "The Morning Show's" Taylor will play "N" while Villafañe, who portrayed Gloria Estefan in "On Your Feet!," will play "A"...
Former President Trump’s lawyer, Alina Habba, said she sat in the New York courtroom during his hush money trial Thursday and compared it to the “Twilight Zone.” “So, you know, you walk in and it’s really actually something surreal. You feel like you’re in the 'Twilight zone,'” Habba told Fox News’s Jesse Watters Habba said...
