U.S. officials detail plans for rewards to help locate missing hostage bodies in Gaza while addressing Hamas executions and creating safe zones for Palestinians.
Rep. Mikie Sherrill criticizes Republican Jack Ciattarelli's response to President Donald Trump's decision to halt Gateway Project funding in New Jersey's competitive governor race.
Federal prosecutors said Friday they will seek to imprison the person who attempted to assassinate Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh at his home in 2022 for at least 30 years and up to life. Prosecutors’ sentencing memo came as the defendant’s public defenders newly indicated their client now uses female pronouns and goes by Sophie Roske. “She has not asked...
California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) on Friday signed a slate of bills regarding climate and clean energy in an effort to “lower electricity costs, stabilize the petroleum market and slash air pollution.” The measures signed into law include legislation to increase climate credits on utility bills, expand regional power markets out West, add $18 billion...
Fewer Republican voters said the U.S. is headed in the right direction following the recent killing of conservative activist Charlie Kirk in Utah, according to a survey released Friday. The new Associated Press (AP)-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research poll found that now over half of GOP voters, 51 percent, think the country is heading...
Mike Eisner, the former longtime CEO of Disney, is criticizing the company's current leadership for suspending Jimmy Kimmel following pressure from the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) over comments the comedian made about the recent assassination of Charlie Kirk. "Where has all the leadership gone," Eisner wrote Friday in a post on social platform X. "If not...
The Senate on Friday confirmed Mike Waltz as President Trump’s ambassador to the United Nations, filling a key post days before the United Nations General Assembly kicks off in New York next week. Waltz’s nomination was delayed for months amid pushback from some Senate Democrats, although Sen. Jeanne Shaheen (D-N.H.) had expressed support for his...
Taliban officials rejected President Trump’s suggestion that Bagram Air Base near Kabul could return to U.S. control after it was abandoned during the withdrawal of troops from Afghanistan under the Biden administration. The Taliban indicated it is willing to talk with the Trump administration about the base — which was built by the Soviet Union...
CNN anchor Jake Tapper called ABC's decision to suspend comedian Jimmy Kimmel's late-night show a "direct" violation of the First Amendment, accusing the broadcaster of stifling speech critical of President Trump and his allies. “If we do not have the ability to criticize, mock, investigate our leaders, we are no longer the United States of...
Three Russian fighter jets flew into Estonian airspace on Friday in what the country’s top diplomat called an “unprecedented and brazen intrusion.” The three Russian MiG-31s flew into Estonian airspace for 12 minutes, Margus Tsahkna, Estonia’s minister of foreign affairs, wrote in a post on X. Tsahkna said that the Russian charge d’affaires was summoned...
A Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) advisory panel is meeting for the second day Friday to vote on guidance for the Hepatitis B and COVID-19 vaccines for children. The 12-member Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP), in its first meeting on Thursday since Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr....
Speaker Mike Johnson is ready to bring a continuing resolution (CR) to avert a shutdown to the House floor on Friday, before the chamber leaves for a recess that stretches beyond the Oct. 1 government funding deadline. Democrats have vowed to vote against the funding bill, demanding restoration of Medicaid support and action to extend...
It is exceedingly difficult to comprehend why Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu ordered an airstrike on a group of Hamas leaders meeting in Doha. These men were negotiating with representatives of Mossad, Israel’s intelligence agency, to bring a halt to the conflict in Gaza. And the Mossad had refused to mount a ground operation to...
Former Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg weighed in on former Vice President Harris’s assertion in her new book that picking him as her running mate would be “too risky,” saying he was "surprised." “Well, I was surprised when I read that — I just believe in giving Americans more credit," Buttigieg said Thursday in an interview...
