Maryland Gov. Wes Moore estimated the cost to fix the collapsed Francis Scott Key Bridge to be between $1.7 and $1.9 billion, as the Port of Baltimore reopened for business last week.
The fate of a ban on bump stocks is now in the hands of Congress after the Supreme Court ruled Friday that current law doesn't allow the government to outlaw them as equivalent to machine guns.
Over 170,000 people have traveled out-of-state to receive abortion care since January of last year, according to new data from the Guttmacher Institute, a figure underlined by the increasing difficulty to access care in some states. Out-of-state care accounted for over 15 percent of the estimated 1 million clinician-provided abortion procedures between 2023 and March...
Two people were killed and multiple were injured in a shooting at a Juneteenth celebration in Texas on Saturday, police said. An altercation broke out between two groups at Old Settlers Park in Round Rock, Texas, and someone began shooting, Round Rock Police Chief Allen Banks said in a press conference. Banks said the victims...
Former President Trump is turning up the heat on Sens. Jon Tester (D-Mont.) and Sherrod Brown (D-Ohio) as Senate Republicans stand on the precipice of winning back the majority. During Trump’s visit with Senate Republicans last week, Sen. Lindsey Graham (S.C.) urged the former president to do more to “hammer” the two Democratic red-state incumbents....
Thirty-five glass bottles filled with cherries and berries were found at Mount Vernon, the home of George Washington. Archaeologists at Washington’s Virginia home found the bottles from the 18th century in storage pits in a cellar. Of the 35 bottles discovered, 29 are intact and contain perfectly preserved cherries and berries like gooseberries or currants,...
Seven people were shot and another injured at a car meet in northern Massachusetts early Sunday morning, local police said. The shooting occurred just before 2 a.m. in Methuen, Mass., near the New Hampshire border. Police Chief Scott McNamara said officers arrived at the scene to find seven gunshot victims and an eighth person who...
An MSNBC host said President Biden has been playing "chess" while former President Trump is playing "hungry, hungry hippo." MSNBC host Alicia Menendez, along with co-hosts Michael Steele and Symone Sanders-Townsend, praised Biden for his meetings with world leaders over the last week as he concluded the Group of Seven (G7) summit in Italy. Lincoln...
The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) is investigating a Southwest Airlines flight that plunged toward the ocean off the coast of a Hawaii island. The plunge happened on April 11 on Southwest Flight 2766 but only was reported after Bloomberg reported that Southwest sent a memo to its pilots about the incident. According to Bloomberg, the...