An air of triumph surrounded D.C. Council member Trayon White after a judge declared a mistrial Monday in his federal bribery case, while some of his council colleagues have spoken up about the ethics violations revealed during his legal saga.
President Trump on Tuesday unveiled America.gov, calling it a front door to let citizens find federal services and information with a simple query instead of wandering through the Byzantine federal bureaucracy.
Bizarre sea creatures that resemble jellyfish have returned to Southern California waters a year after millions were spotted between Ventura and San Diego counties and beyond.
Four law enforcement officers were killed, and several others were wounded Monday in a shootout near Charlotte, N.C., according to police. The four officers who lost their lives were serving a warrant for a felon wanted for unlawful possession of a firearm, The Associated Press reported. The others, according to Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Chief Johnny Jennings,...
A second week's worth of testimony is slated to get underway Tuesday in former President Trump’s hush money trial. Last week saw hours of salacious testimony by ex-National Enquirer publisher David Pecker, who revealed the backroom deals that led to him being the Trump campaign’s “eyes and ears” in 2016 by burying allegations of extramarital...
Protestors on Columbia University's campus took control of an academic building early Tuesday, as pro-Palestinian demonstrations continue to spread at college campuses around the nation in opposition to the ongoing war between Israel and Hamas in Gaza. The demonstrators barricaded entrances and flew a Palestinian flag outside a window of the university’s Hamilton Hall, The...
Rep. Elise Stefanik (R-N.Y.) filed an ethics complaint against special counsel Jack Smith on Tuesday, accusing the prosecutor overseeing the federal investigations into former President Trump of trying to “unlawfully interfere with the 2024 presidential election.” Stefanik, the House GOP conference chair and a close Trump ally, filed the complaint with the Justice Department’s Office...
Nearly seven months into Israel’s war against Hamas in Gaza, White House officials are making progress in their push for a temporary cease-fire. Speaking Monday in Saudi Arabia, Secretary of State Antony Blinken said Hamas should accept an “extraordinarily generous” proposal to release Israeli hostages it is holding in Gaza in exchange for a temporary...
The race to beef up global supply chains for metals and minerals crucial to the ongoing energy transition is heating up. Companies are jockeying for position within shifting production networks and legislatures are advancing packages to pull mineral processing away from China, where the industry has been concentrated for decades. At stake in the quest...
The White House Council on Environmental Quality (CEQ) finalized rules Tuesday aimed at streamlining the environmental review process under the National Environmental Protection Act. The final rule, which was part of an agreement in last summer’s deal to increase the federal debt ceiling, creates new methods for the federal government to establish a categorical exclusion....
The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) updated the federal workplace guidelines after a quarter of a century to protect pronouns, bathrooms and abortion. The new guidance, released on Monday by the federal agency, fortified transgender employees’ rights such as being protected from misgendering and using the bathroom that matches their gender identity. Employees not...
Oklahoma Gov. Kevin Stitt (R) said that “hate speech” from pro-Palestine protesters will not be “tolerated” in the Sooner State and he would expel those who stand with Hamas from his state’s colleges. Stitt was asked if it bothered him that so many pro-Palestine protesters were arrested at universities around the country and that so many of them are...
