A senior Justice Department prosecutor was charged Wednesday with sending herself a copy of former Special Counsel Jack Smith's report on President Trump, defying court orders that the document be kept under tight control.
The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) warned about children’s screen time in an advisory released Wednesday, citing impacts on sleep and mental health. The “Surgeon General's Warning on the Harms of Screen Use” states that “harmful screen use among children and adolescents has become a public health concern; growing up surrounded by screens...
Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney on Wednesday made a joke referencing criticism from President Trump over a teleprompter issue at the United Nations (UN) last year. During an event for the Greater Vancouver Board of Trade on Wednesday, Carney was delivering a speech when he noted a teleprompter issue. “Happens, it happens,” he said, laughing....
NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in Pasadena, Calif., said it's laying off 550 employees Tuesday as "part of a reorganization that began in July and not related to the current government shutdown." "In order to best position JPL going forward, we are taking steps to restructure and establish an appropriate size to ensure future success,"...
Former President Obama appeared in a new ad for California Gov. Gavin Newsom’s (D) redistricting effort on Tuesday, warning that Republicans want to steal congressional seats to “rig” next year’s midterm elections. “California, the whole nation is counting on you,” Obama says in the 30-second spot. “Republicans want to steal enough seats in Congress to rig the...
Transgender surgery on minors is facing increasing pushback from medical professionals and state-level efforts to silence counselors, and may eventually be viewed with the same horror as lobotomies from decades ago.
Most of the nation's leading news organizations have said they will not sign a policy severely restricting journalists' access to the Pentagon ahead of a Tuesday deadline set by the Trump administration. Outlets including the New York Times, Washington Post, The Associated Press, The Hill and NewsNation will not sign the policy, which limits access...
Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) is championing the kind of hardline stances in the government shutdown fight long favored by the House Freedom Caucus. The Speaker has canceled previously scheduled votes in the lower chamber and kept the House in extended recess as he aims to put maximum pressure on Senate Democrats to accept the “clean” stopgap to re-open...
President Trump criticized Time Magazine early Tuesday over its new cover photo of him, shot from below, so that his neck is featured prominently and light from the sun makes the wisps of hair above his forehead appear transparent. The president, on his Truth Social platform, said that while the outlet’s story on his administration’s...
Maine Gov. Janet Mills (D) on Tuesday formally launched her bid to unseat Sen. Susan Collins (R-Maine), teeing up the latest high-profile primary to pit establishment and populist factions of the Democratic Party against each other. Mills launched her campaign after much prodding from Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.). But prominent progressives like Sen....
EMILY’s List, a major Democratic group that backs Democratic women candidates who support abortion access, announced on Tuesday that it’s backing Maine Gov. Janet Mills (D) in the Senate contest to take on Sen. Susan Collins (R-Maine) next year. “This moment demands someone with backbone and grit, someone who has proven she will fight Trump head...
