Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida has given final approval to begin a plan for the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant to release treated and diluted radioactive wastewater into the Pacific Ocean as early as Thursday. At a Cabinet meeting Tuesday, Kishida described the controversial move as an important step in the plant decommissioning and in...

The Biden administration on Tuesday announced it is awarding $1.4 billion in grants through its coronavirus initiative to fund the development of "a new generation of tools and technologies to protect against COVID-19 for years to come." Through the Administration for Strategic Preparedness and Response (ASPR), the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) awarded...

Three top House Republicans sent a letter to the Biden administration this week expressing "deep concern" about potential threats to national security from an alleged agreement being kept under wraps between the U.S. and Iran. The Monday letter — signed by House Foreign Affairs Chairman Michael McCaul (Texas), House Majority Leader Steve Scalise (La.), and...

Over eight in 10 New Yorkers said the recent migrant surge to the Big Apple is a “serious problem,” which comes as the state struggles to house the influx of asylum-seekers into the state, according to a new survey.  A poll published Tuesday from Siena College found 82 percent of New York voters said the recent influx...

A group that integrated Little Rock Central High School back in 1957 when it was segregated by race has come out to decry Arkansas barring AP African American Studies from counting towards credit for graduation. Arkansas has not banned AP African American Studies from its schools but said the class will not count for credit...

Vivek Ramaswamy is seeking to clean up comments he made that appeared to cast doubt about the origins of the 9/11 attacks as part of an interview released just before the first GOP presidential debate. Ramaswamy, the 38-year-old upstart GOP presidential candidate who had been riding a hot streak, said The Atlantic had misquoted him and...

If voters were to “vote for the crook” because the other option is so repugnant, who would get that vote?

Two major generic drug companies Monday settled charges of criminal price fixing with the Department of Justice (DOJ). The U.S. division of Israel-based Teva will pay a $225 million criminal penalty over five years, and the U.S. division of India-based Glenmark will pay a $30 million criminal penalty, the DOJ announced. The two companies entered...

GOP presidential candidate Will Hurd on Tuesday knocked the Republican National Committee (RNC) over a “lack of transparency and confusion” surrounding candidate requirements for the party's first primary debate. “The lack of transparency and confusion around the RNC’s debate requirements is antithetical to the democratic process. The polling standards are arbitrary, unclear, and lack consistency....

The Biden administration has finalized the restoration of Obama-era offshore oil drilling rules, passed in the wake of the 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill, that the Trump administration rolled back. The final rule restores the bulk of the 2016 protections, including a required analysis and investigation of any failures within three months of an incident...