Former President Trump pondered alien lifeforms on a podcast appearance published Thursday, acknowledging that “there could be” alien life out in the universe, but that he wasn’t convinced. Trump appeared on YouTuber Logan Paul's "Impaulsive," where he spent minutes discussing the possibility of life beyond Earth and whether unidentified anomalous phenomena (UAPs) could in fact...
House Oversight Committee Chair James Comer (R-Ky.) announced Thursday he is launching a probe into a news-rating system that seeks to guard against misinformation by scoring news and information sites based on their reliability, trustworthiness and financial conflict of interest. Comer said the probe will focus on “the impact of NewsGuard on protected First Amendment...
Milwaukee Mayor Cavalier Johnson fiercely defended his home turf after reports surfaced that former President Trump called it a “horrible city” in a meeting with congressional Republicans on Capitol Hill on Thursday. “If Donald Trump wants to talk about things that he thinks are horrible — all of us lived through his presidency, so, right...
Rep. Bennie Thompson (D-Miss.), who chaired the committee tasked with investigating the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol, sharply rebuked former President Trump for returning to Capitol Hill on Thursday — the first time since that infamous day. “After inciting a deadly insurrection that defiled the halls of Congress, how dare Trump show his...
Hostilities between Israel and Hezbollah in Lebanon are threatening to erupt into a full-scale war, compounding President Biden’s problems just as optimism about a cease-fire in Gaza fades. There have been clashes between Israel and Lebanon’s Hezbollah militants since the day after Hamas attacked southern Israel last October. But the intensity of the conflict on Israel’s...
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A majority of Republicans joined with Democrats on Thursday to vote down Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene’s (R-Ga.) amendment to the annual Defense bill that called for preventing any funds in the legislation from going toward assistance for Ukraine. The chamber voted 74-343 on Greene’s measure for the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA), with all support coming...
The Supreme Court on Thursday rejected an effort by abortion opponents to limit access to mifepristone, one of the two drugs used for a medication abortion. The case was brought by a group of anti-abortion doctors in Texas called the Alliance for Hippocratic Medicine, which formed in the wake of the Supreme Court’s decision ending...
Two Senate bills from different sides of the aisle aimed at protecting access to in vitro fertilization (IVF) were voted down this week amid bipartisan squabbling. The Right to IVF Act — sponsored by Democratic Sens. Tammy Duckworth (Ill.), Patty Murray (Wash.) and Cory Booker (N.J.) — and the IVF Protection Act — sponsored by...
NASA Administrator Bill Nelson said the government agency aims to send astronauts back to the moon, while the Perseverance Rover explores what was once a lake on Mars.