Republicans know President Donald Trump's unpopularity poses a big problem for them in November. They also recognize he may be their only option to avoid a wipeout.Five weeks before...
Sen. JD Vance (R-Ohio) laid out his opposition to providing more funding for the war in Ukraine on Friday, arguing that even if Congress passes another $60 billion in assistance for its war against Russia, it won’t change the course of a war Vance believes Ukraine can't win. Vance, in an op-ed for The New...
Robert MacNeil, the longtime broadcast journalist and co-anchor of "The MacNeil/Lehrer Report," died Friday. He was 93. MacNeil was an NBC News reporter in Dallas on the day President Kennedy was assassinated. He also worked for the BBC before joining PBS for the bulk of his career. MacNeil's reporting on the Watergate scandal of the...
A Boeing whistleblower and a panel of aviation experts will testify at Senate committee hearings next week to discuss safety and quality concerns regarding the U.S. aviation company's jets. The Senate Commerce Committee will bring in three experts, some of whom were involved in a February report that criticized Boeing’s safety culture as “inadequate and...
Nearly a quarter of adults who said they were disenrolled from Medicaid coverage in the past year since states started resuming eligibility checks remain uninsured, according to a survey released Friday by KFF. The survey is the first to look at health coverage among adults who had Medicaid coverage in early 2023, just before states...
As long as Congress remains impudent in standing up to them and as long as social media companies fight tooth and nail to evade responsibility, victims should drown them in litigation.
The State Department has issued updated security warnings for U.S. government employees in Israel, amid warnings that Iran is expected to launch a retaliatory attack on the country. The U.S. Embassy in Israel on Thursday issued a security alert restricting American employees and their family members from personal travel outside of the greater Tel Aviv...
The White House stressed Friday that the bill to reauthorize the United States’s warrantless surveillance authority is critical to U.S. national security, just after the House advanced it and ahead of an expected final vote later in the day. “Obviously we strongly support the bipartisan effort to get 702 reauthorized,” national security communications adviser John...
A Colorado reproductive rights campaign announced Friday it has surpassed the necessary number of signatures to have a measure added to the November ballot enshrining the right to an abortion into the state's constitution. The Coloradans for Protecting Reproductive Freedom coalition announced it had exceeded its goal of collecting 185,000 signatures, securing more than 225,000....
Americans believe both President Biden and former President Trump’s times in office did more harm than good, but they say so for different reasons, a new survey found. The AP-NORC Center for Public Affairs survey found that people think Biden’s presidency hurt the country due to cost of living, immigration and international relations. Those surveyed...
The former director of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), Francis S. Collins, revealed his prostate cancer diagnosis and detailed his decision to go public with it in an essay published by The Washington Post on Friday. Collins said he knew his prostate-specific antigen (PSA) levels were going up, and an increase in those can...
Years of underspending on defense generally and on naval forces in particular have left many NATO navies short of both personnel and funding for operations and maintenance.
A congressional panel tasked with reviewing quality of life for United States service members released a report Thursday making an array of recommendations to improve pay, child care, housing, access to medical care and spouse support. Among the key recommendations in the Quality of Life Panel Report from the House Armed Services Committee were raising...
