An Ohio county judge issued a permanent injunction Thursday blocking the state from enforcing its “heartbeat” abortion ban, the first time the entire law has been permanently blocked following the passage of the state’s reproductive freedom amendment last year. Judge Christian Jenkins of the Hamilton County Court of Common Pleas said voters had spoken when...
Los Angeles County District Attorney George Gascón on Thursday announced a recommendation to resentence the Menendez brothers, who were charged in the 1990s with first-degree murder and conspiracy to commit murder in connection with the deaths of their parents, according to a press release. Erik Menendez, 53, and Lyle Menendez, 56, have been in custody for...
An Oregon school district on Thursday asked Sen. Ted Cruz’s (R-Texas) campaign to take down two ads targeting transgender athletes because they include a photograph of two minor girls who are not transgender and whose parents did not give the Cruz campaign permission to use the photo. Cruz’s campaign ads, part of a multimillion-dollar media...
Linda McMahon, who is co-leading former President Trump's transition team, is named in a new lawsuit accusing World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE) leaders of allowing years of sexual abuse of young boys by a ringside announcer. Linda McMahon was sued along with her husband, Vince McMahon, World Wrestling Entertainment and its parent company, TKO Holdings. She...
A sarcastic statue dedicated to Jan. 6, 2021, insurrectionists was unveiled in front of the Capitol on Thursday morning. The piece features a bronze shaped pile of poop resting atop a desk with California Rep. Nancy Pelosi’s (D) name above a short paragraph explaining the monument. “This memorial honors the brave men and women who...
Comedian Bill Maher said Vice President Harris has to prove she’s not “a stealth version of the worst excesses of the left” in an interview that aired Thursday. “Kamala’s big, I think, challenge here to win over the undecided voters, is to convince them that she's not part of what they suspect she might be,...
Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) and the Republican rival for his Senate seat, Gerald Malloy, got into a back-and-forth over former President Trump during a Wednesday debate. “Mr. Malloy, Donald Trump lies all of the time,” Sanders said during the debate hosted by local media outlets Vermont Public and VTDigger. “He fomented an insurrection so that,...
Immunocompromised adults or those who are older than 65 should get a second dose of the latest COVID-19 vaccine, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) officially recommended. The CDC on Wednesday adopted guidance recommended by the agency's Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices that a second dose should be given six months after the...
Attorneys for former President Trump on Thursday asked a judge to toss out his federal election subversion case by arguing that special counsel Jack Smith was unconstitutionally appointed. The new motion, submitted to U.S. District Judge Tanya Chutkan, mimics the argument Trump made in Florida, which led a separate federal judge to toss the former president's...