The average-sized household in Fairfax County, Virginia, has 2 or 3 people — 2.71 people, according to the U.S. Census Bureau. My household in Fairfax County has eight people — plus two dogs. Fairfax has a confusing system for residential trash collection, but if your home is serviced by the county, you get one big […]
Senate Majority Whip Dick Durbin (D-Ill.), 79, said he underwent a “successful” hip replacement surgery Wednesday and will remain in Illinois as he recovers. The No. 2 Senate Democrat will return to Washington once he is cleared to travel by his doctor, Durbin’s office said in a statement. “Today, I had a routine hip replacement...
About 55 percent of the water emanating from U.S. rivers is vulnerable to pollution, due to their lack of protections under the Clean Water Act, a new study has found. The Supreme Court last year ruled that "ephemeral streams" — those that fill up and flow only after weather events — do not fall under...
Russians are increasingly unwilling to serve and are thereby depressing supply, while the manpower deficit on the battlefield is growing and is thereby increasing demand.
The number of foreign nationals in the U.S. currently eligible for naturalization outnumbers the 2020 presidential margin of victory in five battleground states. A report released by the American Immigration Council (AIC) on Thursday concluded that if some or all of the country’s 7.4 million not-yet-naturalized-but-eligible residents got their citizenship before November, they could swing...
Former President Trump felt “wounded” by Kim Kardashian’s support for President Biden in 2020, the author of a new book on the former president said in a Wednesday interview. Ramin Setoodeh, the author of “Apprentice in Wonderland,” a book focused on Trump’s time as a reality TV star, said the former president “absolutely” felt betrayed...
Legendary actor Dick Van Dyke is dismissing concerns about President Biden's age, saying even though he's more than a decade older than the commander in chief, he's still "got all [his] marbles." "I'm old enough to be his father," the "Dick Van Dyke Show" and "Mary Poppins" star said in an interview with The Hollywood Reporter's "Awards...
Republicans in Ohio’s state House passed a bill Wednesday banning transgender students from using bathrooms and locker rooms in K-12 schools and colleges that correspond with their gender identity. The measure was added at the last minute as an amendment to a Senate bill focusing on the state’s college credit program. The state legislature went...
House Republicans are trying to wrap their heads around the idea of directing the sergeant-at-arms to take Attorney General Merrick Garland into custody, as Rep. Anna Paulina Luna (R-Fla.) says she will force a vote on holding him in “inherent contempt” of Congress. The promise from Luna is yet another headache for GOP leaders, who...
President Biden and Donald Trump are squaring off against each other in their first televised debate of the 2024 campaign in Atlanta, which will be hosted by CNN at 9 p.m. EDT. The stakes are high for both men. Trump currently holds a narrow lead over Biden nationally at 45 percent to 44 percent, according...