Civil rights leader the Rev. Al Sharpton, one of the organizers of this year's March on Washington, compared New York Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D) to the late presidential candidate Rep. Shirley Chisholm (D-N.Y.) while introducing her at the event. "I know people; I was Shirley Chisholm's youth director," Sharpton stated on stage while introducing Ocasio-Cortez,...
President Trump awarded NASA's Artemis II crew with the Congressional Space Medal of Honor on Friday during a visit to Johnson Space Center in Houston. U.S. astronauts Reid Wiseman, Christina Koch, Victor Glover, and Canadian Jeremy Hansen all received the honor four months after their historic mission in which the crew flew by the moon....
President Trump posted an update Friday on the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool, quoting an Interior Department official as saying it was “Coming out great!” and will be open in a few weeks. In a Truth Social post, Trump quoted Interior’s Greg Wischer as saying, “I visited the Reflecting Pool this morning, and pictures are included below...
A federal judge on Friday rejected President Trump’s latest bid to fight his criminal conviction outside of New York’s state courts, a strategy aimed at citing presidential immunity, under which Trump could potentially toss charges that stem from a 2016 hush money payment in the trash can. U.S. District Judge Alvin Hellerstein has denied Trump’s attempts to move to federal court three...
Meal delivery companies Blue Apron and Marley Spoon have been hit with a barrage of complaints and threats to cancel after weeks of supply chain issues have left once-loyal customers with nearly empty meal boxes arriving on their doorsteps.
California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) — a likely presidential candidate in 2028 — will head to the South next week on a four-day, three-state sweep covering 10 counties, as part of his "Take it Back Tour," his office announced Friday. As part of the tour, which begins Wednesday, Newsom will visit South Carolina, which the Democratic...
Cases of a parasitic illness linked to iceberg lettuce have been confirmed in 20 states, health officials said, as the largest outbreak of the disease in U.S. history keeps growing. The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on Thursday said cyclosporiasis cases have been identified in three additional states:...
CNN political commentator Bakari Sellers on Friday said President Trump is being “bullied” by Canada amid an escalating trade war, comparing the current president’s handling of Canada to previous administrations. “We’re getting bullied by Canada,” he said during a CNN panel discussion, comparing Trump’s diplomatic efforts to those of previous administrations. “Joe Biden didn’t get...
A Missouri deputy attorney general has been found alive six days after authorities said he vanished during a hike through the Wyoming wilderness. Shaun Mackelprang, 55, was rescued by helicopter on Wednesday morning near Scott Lake in the Wind River Range, a roughly 100-mile-long mountain range in western Wyoming, according to the Sublette County...
