The Department of the Interior announced on Thursday that it would be launching a formal process to develop long-term operational guidelines for the dwindling Colorado River. Once finalized, the new strategies will replace the 2007 Colorado River Interim Guidelines for Lower Basin Shortages and the Coordinated Operations for Lake Powell and Lake Mead, which are slated to...
White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre slammed Sen. Tommy Tuberville (R-Ala.) for holding up some 200 Pentagon nominees over a Defense Department abortion policy, calling the lawmaker "shameful" and accusing him of endangering national security. Jean-Pierre said the senator's blockade on the nominees was hurting military families and risking "our military readiness by depriving our...
A longtime town maintenance worker was struck by lightning on a practice soccer field next to a middle school in Woodbridge Township, New Jersey, officials said Wednesday.
Sen. Mike Lee (R-Utah) argued Wednesday that United Airlines’s opposition to the expansion of Reagan National Airport (DCA) in the Washington, D.C., area is an effort to limit competition. “.@UnitedAirlines_ is lobbying against competition—for blatantly anticompetitive reasons,” the senator wrote on his personal Twitter account. He shared a post from the coalition Capital Access Alliance...
Bill de Blasio says politicians and live animals are an “insane” combo, opening up about a snafu he suffered while handling a groundhog when he was New York City’s mayor. The former Democratic mayor detailed what led to an infamous photo-op gone wrong, when in 2014 he dropped the squirming creature during a Groundhog Day event in...
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis poked fun at California Gov. Gavin Newsom on Thursday, telling him to “stop pussyfooting around" and enter the 2024 presidential race to “challenge Joe."
The Indian Child Welfare Act was upheld by the Supreme Court despite challenges from several states and families looking to adopt Native American children.
Democrat Reps. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York and Pramila Jayapal of Washington walked away from a question on the transgender activists who went topless at the White House.