President-elect Trump doubled down on his vow to end birthright citizenship, falsely claiming in his first post-election interview this weekend that the U.S. is the only country with the policy. “Yeah, absolutely,” Trump told NBC News’s Kristen Welker, when asked whether he still plans to end birthright citizenship “on day one.” “We have to end...
Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin said the international community was expecting Syrian President Bashar Assad to have a stronger response to the rebels that took control of Damascus over the weekend. “I think the entire international community was surprised the opposition forces moved as quickly as they did,” Austin said Monday, highlighted by NewsNation. “Everybody expected...
The University of Michigan on Monday denounced an attack on Regent Jordan Acker’s home, in which his house was vandalized and pro-Palestinian messages were spray-painted on his wife's car. “The vandalism of Regent Jordan Acker’s home early this morning is a clear act of antisemitic intimidation. The University of Michigan condemns these criminal acts...
Luigi Mangione, 26, was arrested in Pennsylvania in connection to the shooting of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson in New York City, after police recovered evidence and a fraudulent ID.
Actor and activist Mark Ruffalo is urging the Biden administration to take decisive regulatory action on "forever chemicals," as the return of President-elect Trump to the White House looms near. "The EPA has worked their butts off, against all odds, to get a drinking water standard on this particular chemical class," Ruffalo said at a...
Rep. Adam Smith (Wash.), the top Democrat on the House Armed Services Committee, is requesting Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) strike a provision from the annual defense policy bill targeting some medical treatments for transgender children. House and Senate negotiators unveiled a compromise version of the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) late Saturday, including a provision that would...
The Russo-Ukrainian war cannot end until all sides want a stable and just peace, and the greatest obstacle to such an outcome is the Russian regime, which is deeply authoritarian and hostile to Ukraine.
Police have identified Luigi Mangione, 26, as a person of interest in the deadly shooting of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson in New York City last week, after Mangione was taken into custody in Pennsylvania earlier Monday. Mangione was arrested around 9 a.m. EST at a McDonald's in Altoona, about 280 miles west of New York...
Sen. Adam Schiff (D-Calif.) said President-elect Trump’s threat to throw members of the House committee that investigated rioting at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, in jail is a signal "that no one better hold him to account.” “This is not just about retribution against those of us on the committee," Schiff said on MSNBC’s...
New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy (D) signed a law Monday prohibiting book banning in state libraries and schools. The law says school boards and the governing boards of public libraries need to create standards for how books are removed from shelves and how complaints are addressed. Books will not be allowed to be removed based...