Thousands of flights on Monday were delayed or canceled as much of the country experienced subzero temperatures, dangerous wind chills and snow. By about 2 p.m. EST, 5,067 flights within, into or out of the United States were delayed, and another 2,154 were canceled, according to FlightAware’s live tracker. Many of the disruptions occurred at...
Election officials in Virginia’s Prince William County have acknowledged roughly 4,000 votes were misreported in former President Trump's favor during the 2020 presidential election, when President Joe Biden went on to win the state. A release from the county’s Office of Elections announced Trump incorrectly received 2,327 extra votes, while Biden was shorted 1,648 votes....
Former President Trump took aim at his Republican rivals on Monday, just hours before Iowans were set to kick off the first presidential election contest of the 2024 cycle. In a post on his Truth Social platform, Trump attacked the other GOP candidates for lacking the “America-first” set of values that are associated with his...
Emergency responders in Washington on Monday were dispatched to a false alarm at the White House after a 911 caller claimed there was a structure fire in the building. Noah Gray, the chief communications officer for D.C. Fire and Emergency Medical Services, said its units were dispatched to the White House just after 7 a.m....
North Korea claimed to have successfully test-fired a hypersonic missile on Sunday as Pyongyang moves toward procuring a rocket that can travel at five times the speed of sound in a bid to bolster its nuclear arms arsenal against the U.S. and South Korea. The country fired an "intermediate-range solid-fuel ballistic missile" equipped with a...
The Iowa Republican Party chair predicted there will be a “robust turnout” at the caucuses Monday night despite subzero temperatures. “I really think now — as long as there's not ice that actually makes it impossible to travel and as long as we don't have whiteout conditions, snow actually falling — I think temperatures are...
Ohio Lt. Gov. Jon Husted (R) endorsed former President Trump for the GOP nomination on Monday ahead of the first-in-the-nation vote of the Iowa caucuses. Husted said in a post on X, formerly known as Twitter, that President Biden’s “reckless” policies have weakened the country, especially the economy and security, and “out-of-control" spending has led...
President Biden on Monday joined volunteers at a food bank in Philadelphia in observance of Martin Luther King Jr. Day, the third consecutive year he has marked the holiday at the organization. Biden volunteered at Philabundance, a hunger relief organization in South Philadelphia. Biden chatted with volunteers and stuffed boxes of food. “Where do you...