Sexual abuse charges against former Cardinal Theodore McCarrick were dismissed Wednesday after a Massachusetts judge ruled the former Catholic Church official is not competent to stand trial. McCarrick, 93, was charged with sexually abusing a 16-year-old boy at a wedding reception in 1974 outside Boston. A Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine professor of psychiatry...
Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) appeared to freeze up at the podium while taking questions in Kentucky on Wednesday, the second time in recent weeks that he paused while talking to reporters. During a gaggle in Covington, Ky., a reporter asked McConnell, 81, for his thoughts about running for reelection in 2026. The Senate...
Story at a glance Those with higher education levels are linked with more civic engagement and better physical health, according to a new analysis from Gallup. Charitable giving rates increase with each successive level of educational attainment, Gallup found. Sixty-seven percent of bachelor graduates and 77 percent of those with graduate-level degrees reported charitable donations, compared...
A group of anti-abortion activists, including a woman who famously stored fetal remains in a refrigerator in her Washington, D.C., row house basement, has been convicted of violating federal law after blockading the Washington Surgi-Clinic in October 2020, according to The Washington Post. Lauren Handy, the group’s leader and a previously convicted anti-abortion advocate who...
The House subcommittee on the pandemic is demanding to know what the Biden administration is doing about COVID-19 relief dollars stolen by "international" criminals.
Sen. Joe Manchin, D-W.Va., and his daughter Heather are launching the "Americans Together" nonprofit aiming to give “the politically homeless a voice."