After news broke of a shooter bursting through a security checkpoint outside the White House Correspondents’ Association dinner on Saturday night, the suspect’s profile emerged with a chillingly familiar predictability: a young, highly intelligent male, shaped by a decade of progressive propaganda, convinced he could make history by ridding the world of a modern-day Hitler. […]
President Trump and his political allies are pointing to Saturday’s shooting at the White House Correspondents’ Association (WHCA) Dinner as providing urgent proof of the need for his planned ballroom on White House grounds, touting its security strengths for large events. Trump highlighted the ballroom’s security benefits shortly after the shooting on Saturday, telling reporters...
A group of Senate Democrats are investigating an early March attack on U.S. troops stationed in Kuwait, where six service members were killed and another 20 were injured amid the U.S. war with Iran. The four Democrats - Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.), Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.), Kirsten Gillibrand (D-N.Y.), and Mark Kelly (D-Ariz.) - all members of...
A new (and very specific) speed limit has been posting in Wisconsin at the Outagamie County Recycling and Solid Waste facility. Drivers entering the facility need to drive no faster than 17.3 mph.
A fresh wave of conspiracy theories is rolling through social media across the country following Saturday night’s attempted assassination of President Trump at the annual White House Correspondents Association dinner. The unfounded theories largely capitalize on short video snippets of those in the room and initial breaking news reports filed moments after a gunman tried to breach a ballroom at...
House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) on Monday called White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt a “stone-cold liar” after she blamed Democrats for the Saturday shooting at the White House Correspondents' Association dinner. “I think that what's interesting to me, as you pointed out, is that the so-called White House press secretary, who's a disgrace,...
The decision by the Center for Disease Control and Prevention to stop recommending giving infants a dose of the hepatitis B vaccine within 24 hours after birth is likely to lead to hundreds of more infections, worse health outcomes and millions of dollars in higher costs, according to new research published Monday in JAMA Pediatrics. The CDC in December approved the change to longstanding practice following...
The Trump administration will pay two energy companies to abandon their offshore wind ambitions and invest in fossil fuels instead. The Interior Department announced on Monday that it would issue a refund to Global Infrastructure Partners, which is part of BlackRock and Golden State Wind, for the money they paid for the opportunity to build...
House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) is standing by his promise to use “maximum warfare” in the battle over redistricting, even following Saturday’s shooting at a press gala where President Trump was in attendance. In the wake of the shooting, a number of conservatives have hammered Jeffries’s choice of language, saying the Democratic leader was...