More than 170 worldwide leaders and Nobel laureates are calling on Bangladesh to halt cases against Muhammad Yunus, who was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 2006 for pioneering the use of microcredit to help impoverished people. In an open letter to Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, leaders including former President Obama, former U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon...
President Biden called Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) on Thursday about the major disaster declaration he signed for the state in response to Hurricane Idalia. On the call, Biden also conveyed that he “ordered all available federal resources to help with the continued response to Tropical Storm Idalia,” according to the White House. And, it...
Former President Trump pleaded not guilty Thursday to all 13 charges in the sweeping Georgia case alleging he illegally attempted to overturn the state’s 2020 election results to remain in power. The former president also waived his right to an arraignment, where he was scheduled to hear the charges he faces and enter a plea...
Oprah Winfrey and Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson are donating $10 million to launch a fund aimed at “putting money directly in the pockets” of people affected by the deadly wildfire that ripped through Maui. “We were so concerned about what was happening in Maui that we were texting back and forth,” Winfrey, standing alongside “Black...
The Biden administration is conducting a deportation flight to Haiti on Thursday, a day after the State Department called on all U.S. citizens to leave the country immediately due to security concerns. The scheduled deportation flight, the second to Haiti this month, left Alexandria, La., shortly before 8 a.m. EDT and is scheduled to land in Port-au-Prince...
For decades, the federal Department of Transportation has been pushing local police departments across the country to make more low-level traffic stops like the one that led to Tyre Nichols’ death.
House Oversight and Accountability Committee Chairman James Comer (R) is not ruling out a future Senate run in his home state of Kentucky as others are questioning whether Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R) is fit for office after he froze up at a podium for the second time. “I can’t predict the future. I...