President Joe Biden said France was America's "first friend" at its founding and is one of its closest allies more than two centuries later as he was honored with a state visit Saturday by French President Emmanuel Macron aimed at showing off their partnership on global security issues and easing past trade tensions.
Two Missouri Democrats urged their state’s governor, Mike Parson (R), to stop the execution of a convicted veteran in a letter dated Friday. “We write today to urgently ask that you halt the execution of David Hosier scheduled for June 11, 2024,” reads the letter from Democratic Missouri Reps. Cori Bush and Emanuel Cleaver. “As...
Three private citizens launched into space and landed safely back on Virgin Galactic’s VSS Unity spacecraft, completing the company’s second spaceflight of 2024 and 12 missions to date. Virgin Galactic’s seventh commercial mission carried one researcher and three private astronauts, the company said on Saturday. Onboard were two pilots Nicola Pecile and Jameel Janjua. They...
A number of high-profile Republicans have been floated as prospective running mates for former President Trump, but as he inches closer to a decision, it remains unclear who he will ultimately pick. While Sens. Tim Scott (R-S.C.) and Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) are considered some of the leading contenders, strategists say the former president could end...
The U.S. has begun a slow transition of its exit from Niger in in preparation for a troop withdrawal, according to a statement from the U.S. Department of Defense and the Department of National Defense of the Republic of Niger. “The U.S. Department of Defense and the Nigerien Ministry of National Defense of the Republic...
Former President Trump’s first campaign stop last week since his guilty verdict in the hush money trial took him to Arizona, a key swing state that went to President Biden in 2020 by less than half-a-point. The now-convicted former president was in the Manhattan courtroom most of last month and is heading out on the...
In order to have a chance for a Middle East peace agreement in the future, the priority for the U.S. right now is to save lives, not to continue to underwrite a conflict which destroys them.
Sen. John Fetterman (D-Pa.) and late night host Bill Maher differed in their opinions on whether President Biden can win reelection on Maher’s show Friday. “He's actually the only American that's ever beat [former President Trump] in an election,” Fetterman said on HBO’s “Real Time with Bill Maher” when the host asked him about if...
Story at a glance A growing number of children in the United States are being diagnosed with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) — what one recent report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) referred to as an “expanding public health concern.” ADHD diagnoses have been rising for decades. CDC data shows...