Maryland Gov. Wes Moore in a commencement speech Sunday at Morehouse College urged graduates to celebrate Black history in order to save it. “History will save you, and help you save us,” he said in the commencement address to the historically Black college. “Those who yearn to destroy history will not stop at our history...
A Russian revolutionary group opposed to Russian President Vladimir Putin claimed to have liberated a town in Russia near the border with Ukraine. The rebel faction, the Free Russia Legion, said it had liberated the town of Kozinka in the Belgorod region and its forces were now entering the town of Grayvoron along with another...
A judge on Monday entered not guilty pleas for the man accused of stabbing four University of Idaho students to death last year. Bryan Kohberger, 28, has been charged with burglary and four counts of first-degree murder in connection with the November 2022 deaths. He declined to enter pleas on his own, and the judge...
If American leaders are even remotely serious when they point to long-term competition from revisionist China, they cannot possibly entertain a default on the debt.
Dozens of transgender children, teens and their families from more than 17 states gathered in Washington on Monday to celebrate their identities at a prom organized specifically for trans youth. Chase Strangio, a staff attorney at the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) and one of the prom’s organizers, described the event as a “needed disruption”...
Congress and the White House have just 10 days to reach a deal to raise the debt ceiling before the Treasury Department estimates the nation risks default. But major sticking points have emerged in the past week. Friday's negotiations snagged on disagreements over spending but resumed over the weekend as pressure mounts on both sides...
The Education Department’s Office for Civil Rights (OCR) on Friday announced that a Georgia school district may have violated students’ civil rights by removing books that contained characters who were people of color or LGBTQ. The office said it concluded its investigation into Forsyth County School District after the school put restrictions on more than...
The White House on Monday threatened to veto a Republican-led bill in the House that would block the Biden administration's student loan forgiveness program. In a Statement of Administration Policy, the White House expressed its concerns with a House resolution to disapprove of the student loan forgiveness plan, which provides up to $20,000 in relief...
The Biden administration is green-lighting a plan from seven western states to reduce critical water supplies by nearly a trillion gallons amid an ongoing drought.