President Biden on Friday afternoon will present the Presidential Medal of Freedom to 19 people of diverse backgrounds, with actions and achievements spanning the better part of a century. Among those receiving this highest of civilian honors are two prominent figures from the Civil Rights movement: Clarence B. Jones, a lawyer and activist who co-wrote...
“The View” co-host Sunny Hostin said Sen. Tim Scott (R-S.C.) wouldn’t help former President Trump with gaining Black voters in the 2024 election if he ends up being picked as the vice presidential candidate. Scott, who endorsed Trump early this year, is one of the candidates the former president is considering to pick as his...
South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem’s memoir has not been released, but inaccuracies in the text are already emerging. Noem’s spokesperson said “two small errors” have been brought to the Republican governor's attention. The book is titled “No Going Back: The Truth on What’s Wrong with Politics and How We Move America Forward." The Dakota Scout...
Residents of households with gas or propane stoves are regularly inhaling pollutants that are both exacerbating childhood asthma rates and causing early death, a coast-to-coast study of U.S. homes found. A mix of pollutants, with nitrogen dioxide (NO2) chief among them, may be responsible for as many as 200,000 current such asthma cases, according to...
A group of House Republicans is introducing an amendment to require U.S. foreign assistance to display the American flag, which would revive a Trump-era policy that was revoked by President Biden. The amendment is being led by GOP members of the House Foreign Affairs Committee: Reps. Brian Mast (Fla.), Maria Elvira Salazar (Fla.), Mike Lawler...
f negotiators fail to act, they place all of humanity at grave risk of a global health catastrophe, and the harsh judgment of generations who would look back at this inflection point in horror at the road not taken.
Centrist Democrat Sen. Joe Manchin (W.Va.) is blasting the Biden administration’s new interpretation of which vehicles can qualify for electric vehicle tax credits — saying it gives too much leeway for batteries containing Chinese materials. “The Administration has made clear from Day 1 of implementing the consumer electric vehicle tax credit in the Inflation Reduction...
The Department of Homeland Security is winding down a controversial experts group after a lawsuit from a conservative legal group who said it was in violation of federal law.