The man accused of spraying Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) with apple cider vinegar during a January town hall in her Minnesota district has reached a plea agreement with federal prosecutors, according to court filings. Anthony Kazmierczak, 55, is expected to change his plea to guilty during a May 7 hearing in U.S. District Court in St. Paul,...
The recall covers roughly 207,800 pairs of 32 Degrees-branded socks which the CPSC says are tied to at least 14 "heat-related incidents." Thirteen of those incidents involved burns.
Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) warned on Thursday that investments in artificial intelligence could trigger a potential economic crash, drawing parallels to the 2008 financial crisis caused by a collapse in the housing bubble. “The parallels to the 2008 financial crisis are striking: the reckless behavior of a few billionaires and Big Tech CEOs has turned...
Back-to-back verdicts against Meta and Google’s YouTube sent a warning shot to Big Tech this week, marking the first time juries found the social media platforms liable for their impact on kids and teens online. As Congress remains at a stalemate over how to regulate platforms and protect children online, legal and technology experts say...
Sen. Andy Kim (D-N.J.) said Sunday that the American people are paying the price of the U.S.-Israeli war with Iran on multiple fronts. “There's a reason why Donald Trump is not coming before the American people for approval for this war,” Kim told host Jake Tapper on CNN’s “State of the Union.” “It's because he...
Democratic Sen. Andy Kim (N.J.) said Sunday that if the Senate-backed bill to fund the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) reached the House floor, it would pass. “What we know is that we have a bill that passed the Senate unanimously, a bipartisan piece of legislation that sits over at the House of Representatives. If...
Sen. James Lankford (R-Okla.) on Sunday pushed for federal workers to be paid following recent tensions over funding for the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) in Congress. “We, by the way, I've got a bill that ends government shutdowns forever. You and I have talked about it before, this is a bipartisan bill, I believe...
White House border czar Tom Homan expressed uncertainty Sunday at whether federal immigration officers will leave airports once Transportation Security Administration (TSA) employees receive their delayed paychecks. “We’ll see. It depends [on] how many TSA agents come back to work, how many TSA agents have actually quit and have no plans [on] coming back to...
Pope Leo XIV on Sunday said that God “does not listen to the prayers” of individuals who start wars, as the U.S.-Israeli conflict with Iran continues. “Brothers and sisters, this is our God: Jesus, King of Peace, who rejects war, whom no one can use to justify war,” the first American pope, citing a Bible...
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky told NBC News on Saturday that Russian forces took satellite images of a U.S. air base in Saudi Arabia three times in the days before Iran attacked the site. During an interview in Doha, Qatar, Zelensky said he was “100 percent” confident that Russia was sharing that intelligence with Iran. On...
The foreign ministers of Pakistan, Egypt, Saudi Arabia and Turkey will meet in Islamabad on Sunday, as the U.S.-Israeli war with Iran hits the 30-day mark. Pakistan’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs wrote Saturday on the social platform X that Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan arrived in Islamabad “along with Foreign Ministers of Saudi Arabia and...
