Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg (D) responded Thursday to a previous anti-LGBTQ statement House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) made. Johnson wrote in a column CNN uncovered that “[e]xperts project that homosexual marriage is the dark harbinger of chaos and sexual anarchy that could doom even the strongest republic.” CNN said the column was from 2004....

The House on Friday passed a bill aimed at punishing entities who facilitate the trade of Iranian oil — including refineries and ports. It passed 342-69. The same bill has been introduced with bipartisan support in the Senate, but it’s not clear whether or when the upper chamber will take it up. Kimberly Donovan, director...

House Republicans on Friday approved a legislation that would slash nearly 40 percent of the budget for the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). The funding bill, approved on a 213-203 vote, cuts 39 percent of the EPA’s budget and would be the smallest budget the agency has had in three decades.   Republicans have had longstanding complaints about the agency, which takes...

Secretary of State Antony Blinken said Friday "we need to do more" to protect civilians in Gaza after deadly Israeli strikes have killed around 9,000 people since early October, when Israel launched a major war against Palestinian militant group Hamas. Blinken told reporters at a press conference in Tel Aviv that the U.S. was committed...

Israel Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Friday rejected the prospect of a pause in fighting with Hamas until the militant group releases hostages taken during the Oct. 7 attacks on Israel. Netanyahu’s comments, which came in a brief televised statement, seemingly rebuffed calls from President Biden and other White House officials for a “humanitarian pause”...

A New York appeals court denied Ivanka Trump’s attempt to block her scheduled testimony next week at her father’s ongoing fraud trial. In a ruling late Thursday given without explanation, the New York Appellate Division, First Department rejected a motion to stay the testimony as the full appeal proceeds. “Application for interim stay pending decision...

As the ground engagement ramps up in Gaza, it is important to preview some of the particular challenges the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) will face while conducting urban warfare.

Donald Trump Jr., who testified in the New York fraud trial against his family business Thursday, asked the courtroom sketch artist to make him “look sexy” in her illustrations, she says. According to the artist, Jane Rosenberg, Trump Jr., who took the stand the same day as his brother Eric Trump, paused to banter with...

Research published Thursday in the Oxford Open Climate Change journal suggests the world will reach the threshold of 1.5 degrees Celsius of warming by the end of the decade. In addition to crossing the 1.5-degree threshold, the limit set by the Paris Climate Agreement, by 2030, the study suggests the Earth will hit 2 degrees of...