President Biden approved Monday a disaster declaration for Oklahoma after tornadoes ripped through parts of the state and killed at least three people. The president's action makes federal funding available for recovery efforts in the affected areas. The storms that moved through the central U.S. late last week left at least three people dead and...
Republicans pledged during the State of the Union to take Social Security and Medicare off the table in debt ceiling negotiations, but Speaker Kevin McCarthy’s (R-Calif.) new plan demands that older and working Americans pay for the GOP’s miserly fiscal agenda in other ways. The House Republicans’ recently released proposal for lifting the debt ceiling would...
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) is accepting a comedian’s apology for snubbing her during her first House run and mistakenly calling her “Alexis.” Standup comic Hari Kondabolu recounted his snafu in his YouTube special “Vacation Baby,” which premiered last week. The New York City-born performer and “The Problem with Apu” writer said back in 2017 he received a message...
Kimberly Potter, the former Minnesota police officer who was sentenced to a two-year prison term for the killing of Daunte Wright, was released from prison on Monday after spending 16 months behind bars. Potter shot Wright, a 20-year-old Black man, during a 2021 traffic stop near Minneapolis, apparently mistaking her gun for a taser and...
The Supreme Court has agreed to take up two cases that weigh whether public officials on their personal social media accounts can constitutionally block users when they use the account to post about their job. The cases come two years after the high court dismissed as moot a lawsuit over former President Trump blocking users...
Washington, D.C., police officers arrested a group of climate protesters Monday morning for blocking rush hour traffic in an effort to push climate action.
A new poll revealed a large number of Biden's 2020 voters do not think he should seek re-election, while former President Trump supporters are weighing their support of another four years.
Lu Jianwang, who is accused of running a secret Chinese police station in New York City, purportedly was filmed mingling with Eric Adams and Chuck Schumer.
House Republicans have put forward new legislation that would kill the Treasury Department's Advisory Committee on Racial Equity, established late last year.
Sheriffs in Nevada are rallying around a crime bill supported by Republican Gov. Joe Lombardo that would lower the felony threshold for certain crimes.