Marco Rubio ordered the deportation of Milwaukee's largest mosque leader on national security grounds, citing Israeli convictions and alleged terror ties.
On Thursday, April 4, 1968, Martin Luther King III was sitting at home in Atlanta with his siblings, watching the news, when a news bulletin flashed across their TV screen: Their father, Martin Luther King, Jr., had just been assassinated at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tenn. It was this memory King shared as he...
A group of House Democrats is calling on Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) to include humanitarian assistance in a foreign aid package that is expected to address funding for Ukraine, Israel and the Indo Pacific. In a letter to Johnson sent Tuesday and obtained by The Hill, the Democrats ask Johnson to include $9.16 billion in...
Former Trump attorney John Eastman downplayed a California judge calling for his disbarment last week, arguing that he’s still likely to succeed on appeal and revealing that he has been subpoenaed in a separate suit related to the Jan. 6, 2021 Capitol riot. The judge recommended that Eastman, who was at the center of efforts...
President Biden on Thursday urged Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu toward a cease-fire deal that would release the remaining hostages in Gaza while suggesting that U.S. policy on the war will depend on Israel’s ability to better protect civilians and humanitarian workers after a deadly attack that killed a contingent of international aid workers this...
A federal judge in Philadelphia rejected a nonprofit’s attempt to open a safe drug-injection site in the city. Safehouse, the organization that seeks to provide overdose prevention services, said the threat of prosecution by the Department of Justice over potentially violating drug laws is hindering its religious rights as a group. The organization said its...
When the federal government locks migrants up, it’s responsible for them — whether or not they’ve been formally processed, a federal judge found on Wednesday. As migrant crossings over the border between Mexico and Southern California have overwhelmed local detention facilities, thousands of people have been left to camp in the desert, often for days....
Ford is delaying the rollout of its new electric pickup truck and electric SUV as the demand for EVs decelerates industry-wide. The Dearborn, Mich., auto giant said on Thursday it had delayed the launches of its electric pickup truck built in Tennessee and the three-row SUV manufactured in Ontario, Canada. Despite the delay, the auto-manufacturing...
Stephen Colbert is calling on Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to end the country's war with Hamas, making an impassioned plea following the deaths of six World Central Kitchen workers and a translator in Gaza. "One of our self-imposed mandates is that, if we can, we talk about what everybody's talking about. And today, what...
With public approval ratings of Congress dipping into the teens, the warning lights are already flashing red. A wake-up call is long overdue for Congress to reverse its performative antics and get back to legislating for the nation.
To downplay NATO's importance, undermine it or even cast it aside would threaten the peace and security that Americans have enjoyed since the end of World War II.
Eighty percent of worldwide carbon emissions since 2016 are attributable to fewer than 60 companies and countries, according to a report published Thursday by the think tank InfluenceMap. The report attributes the vast majority of overall emissions to 57 entities, a combination of nation-states, state-owned companies and investor-owned companies. The three largest producers of man-made...
Former President Clinton will lead a U.S. delegation to Rwanda this weekend to mark 30 years since a genocide ravaged the country, the White House announced Thursday. An ethnic conflict between Hutu and Tutsi people in the country escalated to genocide in early 1994, eventually resulting in the deaths of between 500,000 and 800,000 Tutsi...
President Biden praised the NATO alliance to mark its 75th anniversary Thursday, amid threats from former President Trump to encourage aggression towards “delinquent” members. Biden called NATO “the greatest military alliance in the history of the world,” adding that for the last 75 years, the “United States and our fellow Allies have chosen to come together...
