Last winter's unusual onslaught of rain and snow led to California's first increase in groundwater levels in four years, state officials reported on Monday. The 2023 Water Year — which spanned from Oct. 1, 2022, through Sept. 30, 2023 — brought a welcome 4.1 million acre-feet of managed groundwater recharge and a total rise in...
South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem (R) was pressed about a passage in her book in which she describes a meeting with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un while traveling during her days in Congress. "Did you meet with Kim Jong Un," Elizabeth Vargas, an anchor on cable news channel NewsNation, asked Noem during an appearance on the network...
President Biden is delivering remarks Tuesday at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum’s annual Days of Remembrance ceremony. According to the White House, Biden will discuss “our moral duty to combat the rising scourge of antisemitism,” and how his administration is implementing a national strategy to do just that. The event comes as protests at college...
The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has launched an investigation into the Boeing 787 Dreamliner after the company reported alleged "misconduct" by some employees who may have falsely reported performing key tests during production. The FAA said in a statement that “the company voluntarily informed us in April that it may not have completed required inspections...
Story at a glance Utah earned the top spot in U.S. News & World Report’s Best States rankings. This is the second year in a row Utah has been ranked the best state in the country with the outlet attributing the Beehive State’s high scores in five categories used in the ranking for its success. ...
Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-Mich.) has called on the International Criminal Court (ICC) to issue arrest warrants for Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and other Israeli officials after Israel's military seized control of the Rafah crossing on Tuesday. Tlaib, the only Palestinian American in Congress, said with the ongoing incursion into the southern city of Rafah, there...
Most registered voters say they expect former President Trump to be convicted on some or all counts in his ongoing hush money criminal trial in New York, according to a poll released Tuesday. The Suffolk University/USA Today survey, conducted from April 30 to May 3, shows 65.1 percent of registered voters expect the jury to...
Former President Trump read a series of media reports outside of the Manhattan courtroom Tuesday, showing there's "no smoking gun" in the unprecedented case.