Eagles co-founder DON HENLEY has emerged as a major financial backer of several Texas Democrats, giving hundreds of thousands of dollars to statewide candidates and to a super PAC supporting U.S. Senate hopeful James Talarico.
Virginia voters will decide on the November ballot whether to safeguard access to abortions and same-sex marriages, as Democrats attempt to insulate the state from a conservative U.S. Supreme Court.
President Biden on Sunday touted what he called the “strong” friendship between the U.S. and Ireland while marking St. Patrick’s Day at the White House alongside Taoiseach Leo Varadkar. “We celebrate the bonds of our friendship today connecting millions of Irish Americans and American people. We celebrate the friendship between the two nations — one...
Lawyer and investor Nicole Shanahan is among the possible contenders to be independent candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s running mate, his campaign suggested over the weekend. In a lengthy post on X, the platform formerly known as Twitter, Kennedy’s campaign director and daughter-in-law, Amaryllis Fox, responded to the swirling rumors that Kennedy tapped Shanahan as his running...
A bipartisan deal to fund swaths of the government and avert a shutdown later this week is hitting a snag as negotiations over the annual Homeland Security Department (DHS) spending bill sputter. The package initially planned for release Sunday would have included five full-year funding bills covering the departments of Defense, Labor, Health and Human...
Washington, D.C.’s, signature cherry blossoms tied for their second earliest peak bloom record on Sunday. “PEAK BLOOM! PEAK BLOOM! PEAK BLOOM! Did we say PEAK BLOOM?! The blossoms are opening & putting on a splendid spring spectacle. See you soon,” the National Park Service (NPS) for the National Mall wrote on X, the platform formerly known...
The marriage rate in 2022 returned to pre-pandemic highs, new government data show, after a year of pandemic lockdowns put many engagements on hold temporarily. According to the National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS), a unit of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), there were 2,065,905 marriages in total in 2022 – the first...
Russian President Vladimir Putin is projected to win Russia’s election in a record post-Soviet landslide on Sunday, extending his rule for at least another six years, according to exit polls. Putin clinched 87.8 percent of the vote, according to an exit poll as the polls closed Sunday from the Public Opinion Foundation (FOM). This is the highest...
The Biden administration’s legal battle over social media content moderation will reach the Supreme Court on Monday, when the justices are set to hear arguments over whether federal officials violated the First Amendment by urging platforms to remove posts they deemed false or misleading. Two Republican attorneys general brought the case in a challenge to...
Former Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) on Sunday underscored the stakes of the November election after former President Trump warned of a “bloodbath” for the auto industry and the country if he doesn’t win a second term in the White House. At a campaign rally in Ohio on Saturday, Trump called for a 100 percent tariff...
For the first time in Georgetown University’s history, two of its law professors will go head-to-head before the Supreme Court, when it hears the National Rifle Association’s (NRA) fight against a former New York regulator on Monday. The case has created some unusual battle lines. For one, it implicates free speech, not the Second Amendment....
By including the Army values in its mission, West Point is looking to the future, both of cadets soon to be leading soldiers, and of itself, as an institution.
Tech billionaire Elon Musk appeared to come to former President Trump’s defense on Sunday over media coverage of the former president’s “bloodbath” comments, saying people should use X, the platform formerly known as Twitter, to avoid being “misled by the legacy media.” Musk suggested that the “legacy media” outlets were taking Trump’s comments on Saturday...
Former President Trump said Sunday that he will decide “pretty soon” on whether to back a national abortion ban. Trump’s comments come after reports surfaced last month that he is considering embracing a 16-week abortion ban in federal law for his campaign platform. “We're going to find out,” Trump told Fox News’ Howard Kurtz on...
Sen. JD Vance (R-Ohio) on Sunday ripped into what he described as the “ridiculous attack” on former President Trump, who is facing criticism after he called some undocumented immigrants “not people” and warned of a “bloodbath” for the auto industry and nation if he is not reelected in November. “And now you have this ridiculous...
White House national security adviser John Kirby sidestepped questions on Sunday about whether President Biden believes Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is impeding peace amid the war in Gaza. “Fox News Sunday” host Shannon Bream pressed Kirby on the speech Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) delivered last week that called for Israel to hold new...
