The marriage rate in 2022 returned to pre-pandemic highs, new government data show, after a year of pandemic lockdowns put many engagements on hold temporarily. According to the National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS), a unit of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), there were 2,065,905 marriages in total in 2022 – the first...
Washington, D.C.’s, signature cherry blossoms tied for their second earliest peak bloom record on Sunday. “PEAK BLOOM! PEAK BLOOM! PEAK BLOOM! Did we say PEAK BLOOM?! The blossoms are opening & putting on a splendid spring spectacle. See you soon,” the National Park Service (NPS) for the National Mall wrote on X, the platform formerly known...
The Biden administration’s legal battle over social media content moderation will reach the Supreme Court on Monday, when the justices are set to hear arguments over whether federal officials violated the First Amendment by urging platforms to remove posts they deemed false or misleading. Two Republican attorneys general brought the case in a challenge to...
Russian President Vladimir Putin is projected to win Russia’s election in a record post-Soviet landslide on Sunday, extending his rule for at least another six years, according to exit polls. Putin clinched 87.8 percent of the vote, according to an exit poll as the polls closed Sunday from the Public Opinion Foundation (FOM). This is the highest...
Former Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) on Sunday underscored the stakes of the November election after former President Trump warned of a “bloodbath” for the auto industry and the country if he doesn’t win a second term in the White House. At a campaign rally in Ohio on Saturday, Trump called for a 100 percent tariff...
By including the Army values in its mission, West Point is looking to the future, both of cadets soon to be leading soldiers, and of itself, as an institution.
For the first time in Georgetown University’s history, two of its law professors will go head-to-head before the Supreme Court, when it hears the National Rifle Association’s (NRA) fight against a former New York regulator on Monday. The case has created some unusual battle lines. For one, it implicates free speech, not the Second Amendment....
Tech billionaire Elon Musk appeared to come to former President Trump’s defense on Sunday over media coverage of the former president’s “bloodbath” comments, saying people should use X, the platform formerly known as Twitter, to avoid being “misled by the legacy media.” Musk suggested that the “legacy media” outlets were taking Trump’s comments on Saturday...
Sen. JD Vance (R-Ohio) on Sunday ripped into what he described as the “ridiculous attack” on former President Trump, who is facing criticism after he called some undocumented immigrants “not people” and warned of a “bloodbath” for the auto industry and nation if he is not reelected in November. “And now you have this ridiculous...
Former President Trump said Sunday that he will decide “pretty soon” on whether to back a national abortion ban. Trump’s comments come after reports surfaced last month that he is considering embracing a 16-week abortion ban in federal law for his campaign platform. “We're going to find out,” Trump told Fox News’ Howard Kurtz on...