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Biden awards Presidential Medal of Freedom to Pelosi, Gore, 17 others: Watch live

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...

How a single rogue elector could flip the presidential election

The Electoral College is not the faceless “race to 270” that cable news portrays it to be.

Sunny Hostin: Tim Scott wouldn’t help Trump with Black viewers if picked as VP

“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...

Inaccuracies found in Noem’s new memoir ahead of release

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...

Gas stove emissions increasing childhood asthma rates, adult deaths: Stanford study

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...

Our revised race standards still fall short for Indigenous Americans

We need to decouple Indigenous identity from race in federal data for two reasons. 

Republicans seek to revive Trump policy of branding foreign aid with US flag

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amendment to require U.S. foreign assistance to display the American flag, which would revive a Trump-era policy that was revoked by President Biden.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...

Four years after COVID, we are still lacking an international prevention plan 

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. 

Manchin blasts leeway in Biden’s EV tax credit rule: ‘Outrageous and illegal’ 

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...

Biden’s controversial DHS ‘experts’ panel shuttered after being slapped with lawsuit

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.

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