Is it a violation of the Texas Constitution for a city to give money to its low-income residents? On Thursday, a Texas state court judge answered with a definitive "no" — the first ruling in what is shaping up to be a long legal fight over that question. “There is sufficient evidence to show that guaranteed...
Comedian Stephen Colbert’s “The Late Show” is headed to Chicago for the Democratic National Convention this summer, the late-night host said Wednesday. “‘The Late Show' is doing shows from Chicago for the entire Democratic convention,” Colbert said on his show Wednesday. The shows will be live, according to a post by the show’s account on...
Trader Joe’s has recalled some of its organic basil due to a salmonella outbreak, the company announced this week. The grocery chain’s Infinite Herbs brand organic basil was sold in 2.5-ounce clamshell packages between Feb. 1 and April 6 in stores across 29 states and Washington, D.C. It has since been taken off shelves,...
More than three decades after Erin Brockovich recognized that hexavalent chromium was making residents of Hinkley, Calif., sick, state water regulators on Wednesday approved the nation's first standard to limit the toxin's presence in drinking water. The California State Water Control Board voted to adopt a maximum contaminant level (MCL) of 10 micrograms per liter...
Maine could soon shield from liability those who perform abortions or gender surgeries for minors from other states under a bill heading to Gov. Janet Mills' desk.
Former President Trump declared it is President Joe Biden who “should be in jail" and “be on trial," while blasting the case against him and saying “the whole world is watching this New York scandal," as he left court after the third day of his historic and unprecedented criminal trial.
Independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is on the 2024 general election ballot in Michigan, a battleground that Trump carried by a razor-thin margin in 2016 and Biden narrowly won in 2020
Several social media users mocked Rep. Ilhan Omar's daughter after she revealed she had been suspended from Barnard College following her involvement in an anti-Israel protest.