On Oct. 1, a new half-cent per dollar sales tax took effect across LA County. It will cost families hundreds of dollars a year. But that's not even the...
Rep. Mike Gallagher (R-Wis.) announced Friday he would resign from Congress before his term is up, shrinking the GOP's already razor-thin majority in the House. Gallagher, a four-term lawmaker who is considered a rising star within the GOP, announced last month that he would not seek reelection. But Friday, he said he would leave the...
Kate, the Princess of Wales, says she’s been diagnosed with cancer, asking the public for “time, space, and privacy” amid a media frenzy surrounding her absence from public appearances. “It’s been an incredibly tough couple of months for our entire family,” Kate, sitting on a bench outdoors, said Friday in a video posted on social...
Former White House communications director Anthony Scaramucci joked on Friday that he and other former Trump administration officials are in a “Trump recovery unit.” “[L]et me just talk about my colleagues and friends, ‘cause we’re sort of like in this Trump recovery unit together, which would include [former Defense Secretary Mark Esper], [retired Gen. Mark...
Most Americans doubt that SCOTUS will be impartial in decisions affecting the 2024 election. By striking down Colorado’s decision to remove Trump from the ballot, the justices validated their fears.
Story at a glance Married adults in the U.S. are more likely to be thriving than those who have never been married, are divorced or live with a domestic partner, according to newly-published data from Gallup. In 2023, married adults aged 25 to 50 were 16 percent more likely to be thriving compared to those...
Republicans on the House Judiciary Committee on Friday subpoenaed President Biden’s ghost writer, advancing their efforts to gain access to recordings and a transcript of conversations referenced by special counsel Robert Hur. Hur’s report indicates that Biden at three different times read passages from his notebook that references classified information while working with ghost writer...
A group of migrants rushed past Texas National Guard troops at the border wall in El Paso Thursday, seeking to surrender to Border Patrol to apply for asylum. The migrants made their way across concertina wire and to an opening in the border wall, where they were momentarily forcibly held back by a small group...
House Oversight Chair James Comer (R-Ky.) suggested that the impeachment vote against President Biden may not be the “best path,” and thinks criminal referrals will be the way to go. “I believe that the best path to accountability is criminal referrals,” Comer told Newsmax hosts on Thursday. The Oversight Committee on Wednesday held a hearing...
The House on Friday approved a $1.2 trillion government funding bill, sending the sprawling package to the Senate hours before the deadline and officially capping off the fiscal year 2024 appropriations process in the lower chamber. The legislation — which includes six funding bills — cleared the House in an 286-134 vote, hours before a slew of...
Passengers on an Alaska Airlines flight who experienced a midair blowout earlier this year have received a letter from the FBI saying they may be crime victims. “As a Victim Specialist with the Seattle Division, I'm contacting you because we have identified you as a possible victim of a crime,” the FBI letter, dated Tuesday,...
President Biden is using the anniversary of the Affordable Care Act’s (ACA) passage to hammer former President Trump’s record on health care and capitalize on his threats to repeal the law. In a new digital ad released Friday ahead of the 14th anniversary of the law, the Biden campaign sought to highlight Trump’s repeated repeal threats...
Ronna McDaniel, the former head of the Republican National Committee (RNC), will join NBC News as a contributor. McDaniel will appear on "Meet The Press" this Sunday, giving her first interview since resigning as head of the RNC earlier this year. McDaniel is expected to be featured as part of election coverage on NBC and...
