The NAACP has joined growing calls for political leaders to demand an end to the violence in the Middle East as the Israel-Hamas war rages in the Gaza Strip. Derrick Johnson, president and CEO of the 114-year-old organization, said in a statement this week that the violence overseas has ripple effects across the entire world. ...

Rep. Dan Kildee (D-Mich.) announced Thursday that he will not run for reelection in 2024, opening a competitive seat in the heart of Michigan. Kildee, 65, said a cancer diagnosis this year sparked a need to reassess his career plans. “For most of this year, I saw myself continuing to serve and was actively planning...

Demonstrators seeking a cease-fire in Israel's war with Hamas blocked traffic on the Boston University bridge connecting Cambridge to Boston on Thursday morning. The protestors were calling in part for Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) to support their calls for a cease-fire, according to the Associated Press. In a post on X, a platform formerly known...

Organizers of the protest outside the Democratic National Committee (DNC) headquarters Wednesday night said 90 of its demonstrators were injured after skirmishes broke out with police. Members of the Ceasefire Now Coalition said hundreds of people attended a candlelight vigil outside the DNC building in Washington to demand a cease-fire in the Israel-Hamas war and...

More than 94,000 electric customers in Florida were without power mid-morning on Thursday, as the eastern coast of the state was inundated with heavy rain overnight. According to PowerOutage.us, which tracks outages across the country, that number is falling, down from more than 100,000 earlier Thursday morning. A slight risk of excessive rainfall was in...

Should a business owner be entitled to a grant just because of the color of their skin or their gender preference or their cultural background?

A half-dozen House Progressives introduced a bill Thursday to block a $320 million arms sale to Israel amid its war with Hamas in Gaza. The measure, led by Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.), would revoke the export license of a specific type of guided bomb kit approved for sale to Israel months before the Oct. 7...

Rep. George Santos (R-N.Y.) announced Thursday he will no longer run for reelection in 2024, dropping out of the race shortly after the House Ethics Committee released a scathing report detailing “substantial evidence” that the embattled Congressman “violated federal crimes.” Santos, while revealing he will not seek another term in Congress, did not say he...

I have witnessed time and time again the effectiveness of cutting off terror organizations’ financial resources — their oxygen.

New York Attorney General Letitia James (D) is seeking a December deadline for the judge to respond to former President Trump's mistrial motion in his New York fraud case. In a letter to Judge Arthur Engoron on Thursday, the New York attorney general's office requested the judge to respond to what it called the defendants'...