The Supreme Court declined to take up whether President Trump can be prosecuted for his efforts to overturn the 2020 election, punting for now the question on the limits of presidential immunity as the former president seeks to toss the case. The refusal, which had no noted dissents, comes as an appeals court weighs a...
The director of the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) told people to stay home if they are sick in a holiday message Friday. “We continue to see a lot of respiratory illness right now. Flu, COVID and RSV are spreading in most of the country,” Mandy Cohen said in a Friday video posted to the...
A pair of bipartisan senators are calling on President Biden to ramp up pressure on Qatar to push Hamas to release more than 100 hostages it kidnapped from Israel, a group that includes eight Americans. Senators Joni Ernst (R-Iowa) and Jacky Rosen (D-Nev.) sent a letter to the president on Thursday calling for Biden to...
The Washington Post and its employees union have reached a tentative agreement on a new three-year contract, the two sides announced Friday. The agreement, if ratified, would give all Post employees a $30 per week raise starting the first payroll period of 2024 with additional raises planned for April 2025 and April 2026, according to...
The Democratic National Committee (DNC) is suing New Hampshire officials over an election law backed by Republicans that the committee claims will disenfranchise voters and affect the party’s members. The lawsuit challenges a law passed last year that requires people who register and vote on election day without photo ID to send in missing documentation...
With no further American assistance, European countries can’t make up the shortfall, and Ukraine will likely wilt before a renewed Russian offensive next spring.
The Supreme Court has declined to fast-track a case regarding whether former President Trump has absolute immunity from alleged crimes committed while he was in office.