Only Los Angeles could spend billions fighting homelessness, watch tents swallow sidewalks and parks, and then decide the city has been too aggressive keeping people from camping. That is...
NAACP President Derrick Johnson bashed the Navy Friday following reports that it planned to rename an aircraft carrier, named after a Black WWII war hero, and had considered President Trump's name as a replacement. Johnson wrote in a social media post that the alleged talks surrounding the USS Doris Miller's name are “a slap in...
Sen. Susan Collins (R-Maine) pushed the Trump administration to “consider the negative impact" that engaging in a tariff war with Canada may have on American constituents, straying away from some of her GOP peers. Republican lawmakers were split Saturday after negotiations between Canada and the U.S. fell through, causing the White House to impose a...
President Trump is attempting to block the BBC's efforts to subpoena his family members for the channel's defense in his ongoing $10 million defamation lawsuit. In Saturday court filings, Trump's lawyers wrote that the British broadcaster's attempts to subpoena the president's children — Donald Trump Jr., Ivanka Trump and son-in-law Jared Kushner — were “cynical” and a...
More than 60,000 Canadians are backing an effort to remove U.S. Ambassador Pete Hoekstra from the country, accusing him of undermining relations between the neighboring countries and interfering in Canadian politics. The online petition calls on Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney to declare Hoekstra “persona non grata” and seeks his removal as President Trump’s ambassador...
A left-leaning publication sued President Trump’s media company on Wednesday over its new product that gives paying Wall Street firms faster access to the president’s Truth Social posts The Intercept filed the lawsuit alongside the Freedom of the Press Foundation, saying the offering violates the First Amendment. “This scheme is profoundly corrupt,” the lawsuit states. “The...
The Treasury Department on Tuesday officially repealed a requirement for American companies and individuals to report beneficial ownership information to its Financial Crimes Enforcement Network, or FinCEN. The department initially proposed the repeal in March 2025 and published the final rule in the Federal Register on Tuesday. In addition to repealing the reporting requirement, the...
Sen. John Fetterman (D-Pa.) said he would not campaign against Sen. Dave McCormick (R-Pa.) in 2030 if the Republican chooses to run for a second term. In remarks made to the Washington Examiner, Fetterman was asked whether he would support or oppose McCormick’s potential run in four years. “Well, I would absolutely never move against...
Sen. Tim Scott (R-S.C.), chair of the National Republican Senatorial Committee (NRSC), announced Wednesday that he voted for Sen. Darline Graham (R-S.C.) and will support her in the South Carolina Senate Republican primary runoff for her late brother's seat. Graham will face Rep. Ralph Norman (R-S.C.) in a runoff scheduled for Aug. 25. Graham —...
The Los Angeles Lakers have reportedly been sold to Bob Iger and Josh Kushner for more than $12 billion, a record for any NBA team in history and a total that is believed to be among the highest valuations of any North American sports franchise. The deal, first reported by ESPN, is worth an estimated...
The head of the World Health Organization (WHO) criticized changes to the U.S.’s vaccine policy for children on Wednesday. “@WHO is concerned that recent changes to US immunization policy are not aligned with decades of evidence that show when children are most vulnerable to disease, when vaccines provide the strongest protection, how many doses are...
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is assuring Americans that they should feel confident eating fresh produce again, seeking to ease concerns over the nation’s food supply after a cyclospora outbreak linked to iceberg lettuce spread across more than a dozen states. “We have the safest food supply in the world,” acting FDA Commissioner Kyle...
Four human rights groups are suing the Trump administration over its economic pressure campaign against the International Criminal Court (ICC), arguing that sanctions against judges, prosecutors and others are unlawfully interfering with their international criminal justice work. The lawsuit was filed on Tuesday in New York by the American Friends Service Committee, the Center for...
The screwworm flies can lay eggs on any warm-blooded animal, including people. Those eggs develop into parasitic larvae, or maggots, that feed on the surrounding flesh as they burrow deeper.
Delinquency rates among student loan borrowers dipped last quarter relative to a year prior, according to a new analysis from the Federal Reserve Bank of New York. Roughly 7.8 percent of student loan borrowers missed at least three monthly payments in the second quarter, according to data from the New York Fed’s quarterly report on...
Rosie O'Donnell says President Trump — who has repeatedly verbally attacked and threatened her during a decades-long public feud — has reignited public interest in her. "I feel like recently I'm refamous. That's what I feel like," the former "The View" co-host said during an interview on Amy Poehler's podcast, "Good Hang," released Tuesday. "I...
