Roughly 6 in 10 voters backing President Biden say they’d replace both the incumbent and his rival former President Trump on the 2024 ballot if they could, polling released Wednesday shows. A Pew Research report found 62 percent of Biden supporters said they’d swap out both candidates at the top of the ticket, compared to...
New York Gov. Kathy Hochul (D) is criticizing Speaker Mike Johnson’s (R-La.) visit to Columbia University, arguing he's only exacerbating divisions by showing up to speak with Jewish students. “I think politicizing this and bringing the entourage to put a spotlight on this is only adding to the division,” Hochul told reporters, per Politico. “A...
The U.S. has already provided long-range Army Tactical Missile Systems (ATACMS) to Ukraine, according to a Pentagon spokesperson. President Biden in February directed officials to supply the longer-range versions of the ATACMS, which have been long requested by Ukraine to strike at Russian targets deep behind enemy lines. These ATACMS were first provided in a...
Back during the Trump years, the media spent an inordinate amount of time dissecting every last detail of this tabloid journalism fodder we’re now seeing play out in a New York City courtroom — which is meaningless to the lives of nearly every American.
A single hurricane barreling into New England forests can undo decades of carbon storage, a new study has found. As climate change heats oceans and fuels hurricanes, worsening storms with higher-speed winds are reaching ever deeper into the region's woodlands, according to findings published on Wednesday in Global Change Biology. Now, just one big storm can knock down...
Doctors in New York City performed the first-ever combined heart pump implant and pig kidney transplant on a terminally ill patient. Surgeons at NYU Langone Health carried out the first-of-its-kind operation on Lisa Pisano in two stages over the course of nine days earlier this month, according to a Wednesday statement from NYU Langone. Pisano,...
Democrats are seen as more successful at passing legislation in the House of Representatives than their party counterparts, according to a new Monmouth University poll. More than half of Americans surveyed, 53 percent, said that Democrats have been more successful at getting legislation passed when they are in control of the lower chamber. Almost 1 in 4,...
Harvard University is the latest U.S. college to have pro-Palestinian encampments go up on its grounds following multiple other institutions that have seen students arrested this week over demonstrations protesting Israel's war against Hamas in Gaza. On Wednesday, protesters at Harvard began putting up tents after The Harvard Crimson reported the university shut down access...
President Biden put his strategy of appealing to union workers on display Wednesday by painting himself as more like them and less like former President Trump. Biden has spoken to crowds of union workers twice in the past week, using each occasion to bash Trump about his upbringing in working to appeal to the critical...
California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) announced a new bill in the state Legislature on Wednesday that would allow Arizona abortion providers to be quickly approved for work in California, in response to Arizona implementing one of the country’s strictest abortion laws. An Arizona Supreme Court decision earlier this month implemented an 1864 abortion law preventing...
The Biden administration on Wednesday laid out a national goal to cut emissions from freight shipping down to zero. A White House fact sheet did not include a date for this goal, but it comes on top of existing goals to reach net-zero emissions for the the transportation sector, as well as the whole U.S....
Independent presidential candidate Cornel West said both major American political parties are beyond saving in an interview with The Washington Post released Tuesday. “Both parties are beyond redemption,” West said in the interview. Explaining the need for him to stay in the race, West pointed to “[t]he crisis in the Republican Party, the undercutting and...
