A judge handed down a maximum sentence Monday morning to Bionca Ellis, the woman accused of killing a 3-year-old boy in an unprovoked attack in the parking lot of a local Giant Eagle last summer.
CNN is denying a recent report that its head Mark Thompson recently met with officials in President Trump's administration and afterward urged staff at the network to ease up on its coverage of the White House renovation project, which has torn down the East Wing. The report, published in the media-news outlet Status, cited people...
The largest union representing federal workers is calling for an end to the government shutdown, as it hits Day 27. In a Monday release, American Federation of Government Employees (AFGE) National President Everett Kelley said “it’s time” for Congress to immediately pass a clean continuing resolution (CR) to reopen the government. “No half measures, and...
A group of Chinese bombers conducting “confrontation drills” recently flew near Taiwan, Beijing’s state media claimed Sunday, just days ahead of a meeting between President Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping in South Korea. Without giving a date or specific location for the war games, the Weibo account for Chinese state television’s military channel said “several J-10...
Ken Burns says his latest epic documentary shows America has been deeply divided since its earliest days, but that the story of the revolution, and the war itself, could "put the 'us' back in the U.S." “We were divided, really divided back then,” Burns told ITK of the time leading up to the Revolutionary War...
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) and Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) directed their ire at President Trump on Sunday evening as they rallied in support of their progressive ally in New York City, Democratic mayoral nominee Zohran Mamdani. The high-profile figures addressed a large crowd of Mamdani supporters at a rally in Queens, where they both directly...
Indiana Gov. Mike Braun (R) called a special session Monday to redraw the Hoosier State’s congressional maps, capping off months of intense lobbying from the White House to do mid-decade redistricting as Republicans look to hold onto their narrow majority in the House. “I am calling a special legislative session to protect Hoosiers from efforts...
Argentinian President Javier Milei's party secured more than 40 percent of the vote in legislative elections on Sunday, delivering a major victory to President Trump, who staked U.S. financial support on the success of the libertarian Latin American ally. “I love that question because that was a big win in Argentina,” Trump told reporters on...
President Trump told reporters on Monday that he went underwent an MRI and a cognitive test during his "secondary" physical at Walter Reed earlier this year. The president did not detail the reason for the MRI, saying that the full results were made public and added that the exam was "perfect." “I got an MRI,...
