U.S. authorities announced charges Wednesday against Mohammad Sharifullah, the man they said acted as a scout ahead of the suicide bombing that killed 13 American troops during the 2021 troop withdrawal in Afghanistan.
President Donald Trump gave the first State of the Union-style address of his second presidential term on Tuesday night, and the objective was clear: Remind the people why they voted for him on Nov. 5. Overall, he succeeded. Setting aside my usual grievances with these acts of political theater — including the breathless partisanship, endless […]
ABC News Group is eliminating its political arm, 538, which specializes in polling, surveys and data, amid wider layoffs at the Walt Disney parent company, according to information obtained by The Hill. The layoffs are expected to impact 200 employees which represents under 6 percent of the staff at the company and Disney Entertainment Networks...
House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) is defending the conduct of the “majority” of his fellow Democrats during President Trump’s defiant speech before Congress Tuesday night. But he declined to weigh in on the protests by a smaller group of Democrats during the marathon address, most notably Rep. Al Green’s (D-Texas) heckling of the president...
Mohammad Sharifullah, a member of the Afghanistan branch of the terror group Islamic State, ISIS-K, was charged on Sunday by the United States for allegedly helping plan the 2021 terror attack at the Kabul airport that killed 13 American soldiers and several others. According to the Department of Justice (DOJ), Sharifullah has been charged with...
More than 31 million Americans borrowed money last year to pay for health care, a new survey found. Those Americans borrowed about $74 billion, despite most of them have some form of health insurance, the West Health-Gallup survey found. Most of the borrowers were ages 18-29, 30-39 and 40-49. Just two percent of Americans who...
Ben Stiller has revealed that former President Obama counts himself among the fans of "Severance" but still turned down a role on the popular Apple TV+ show. The "Zoolander" star, who's an executive producer and director on "Severance," told Jimmy Kimmel during a Monday appearance that he attempted to land Obama to narrate an animated...
Former Georgia gubernatorial candidate Stacey Abrams defended herself after President Trump invoked her name in his address Tuesday night to a joint session of Congress. When speaking about wasteful spending, Trump said his Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) found that $1.9 billion was used to form a committee focused on the decarbonization of homes. That...
Rep. Sylvester Turner (D-Texas), the former Houston mayor who won a seat in Congress in November, succeeding the late Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee (D), died Tuesday night. He was 70. House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) confirmed Turner’s death Wednesday morning. “The House Democratic Caucus family is shocked and saddened by the sudden passing of...