1979—President Carter nominates This Day Hall of Famer Stephen Reinhardt to a seat on the Ninth Circuit. 1987—In the aftermath of the Senate’s defeat of…
California‘s nonpartisan Legislative Analyst’s Office released its fiscal outlook for the 2026-2027 budget cycle, forecasting an $18 billion deficit that Gov. Gavin Newsom (D-CA) and the legislature’s Democratic super-majority will have to balance by June 15. This is the fourth year in a row California has posted a multibillion-dollar budget shortfall, and the LAO predicted […]
Four people were killed and 14 others were injured during a shooting at a family event in Stockon, Calif., officials said Saturday. The incident, which was likely targeted, occurred shortly before 6 p.m. local time, per a statement from the San Joaquin County Sheriff's Office. The shooter is still a large, District Attorney Ron Freitas...
Andriy Yermak, the chief of staff to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky and a lead negotiator in peace talks with the U.S., has resigned, Zelensky said Friday. In his nightly address, the Ukrainian president said he was “grateful” to Yermak “for always representing Ukraine’s position on the negotiation track exactly as it should be represented. It...
Although largely forgotten, a little-known Tennessee school once powerfully influenced the U.S. Civil Rights movement and its leaders, while preserving Southern Appalachian culture. Its inspiring impact on the lives of two participants — one Black, one white — have lessons for today, according to the author of a new book. For Richard Dillingham in the early 1960s, economic prospects were bleak for a poor white...
The suspect in Wednesday’s shooting in Washington, D.C., now faces first-degree murder charges, after U.S. Army Spc. Sarah Beckstrom died from her wounds Thursday. Rahmanullah Lakanwal, the Afghan national accused of shooting Beckstrom and U.S. Air Force Staff Sgt. Andrew Wolfe, members of the West Virginia National Guard on deployment in the nation’s capital, now...
The next president of the United States will face the difficult task of restoring trust in the American government, which has been eroded by the Trump presidency, and will need to be committed to good government, restoring the rule of law, and reestablishing norms that have served the country well.
Elaine Miles, an Indigenous actor, alleged Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers said her Oregon tribal identification “looked fake” during a recent encounter, according to The Seattle Times. Miles, best known for her role as Marilyn Whirlwind in “Northern Exposure,” reportedly was stopped by four masked men while she was walking to a bus stop...
Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz (D) fired back at President Trump referencing him in a Thanksgiving rant. “Release the MRI results,” Walz wrote on the social platform X. Trump said last month that he underwent an MRI as part of a visit to Walter Reed Military Center, but the White House has not revealed the results...
Commentator Stephen A. Smith slammed Sen. Mark Kelly (D-Ariz.) this week for urging service members to disobey illegal orders from the Trump administration. Smith, while criticizing President Trump’s rhetoric toward Kelly and five other Democratic lawmakers who released a video calling for active-duty military and intelligence personnel to ignore unlawful orders last week, said the...
President Trump said Thursday he will halt immigration from “all Third World Countries” after two National Guard members were shot in Washington, D.C., earlier this week. “I will permanently pause migration from all Third World Countries to allow the U.S. system to fully recover,” the president said in a lengthy post on his Truth Social...
