The cross-examination of the woman at the center of former President Trump’s hush money trial is set to resume on Thursday, with an expectation of continued testy exchanges between her and the defense team. Stormy Daniels spent hours on the stand Tuesday recounting vivid and sometimes lewd details about an alleged sexual encounter she says...
The Volunteer State’s new law is quite simple: The Tennessee Department of Education must disclose all federal guidance it receives to state lawmakers.
Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) said Wednesday that he is concerned President Biden's handling of the ongoing war in Gaza between Israel and Hamas could cost him the election. When asked by CNN's Kaitlan Collins if Biden could lose in November, especially with young, progressive voters, Sanders said, "Well, that's what I worry about." "Look, I...
For dually eligible Americans, bureaucratic nightmares are their daily realities.
The American Cancer Society recently shared a bleak figure – for the first time, new cases of cancer in the United States are expected to cross the 2-million mark. While advancements in care have led to a steady decline in cancer deaths over the last 30 years, rising cases for many common cancers put that progress...
Barron Trump, former President Trump's youngest son, was named a Florida delegate for this year's Republican National Convention, marking the 18-year old's debut into politics. Barron will serve as one of the 41 at-large GOP delegates to represent Florida at the July convention, where the party is expected to officially nominate his father as its...
Has the U.S. government secretly retrieved exotic craft of “non-human” origin? Newly declassified documents, along with extraordinary legislation, illustrate how two successive Democratic Senate majority leaders appear to have believed so. Notably, Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) and the late Sen. Harry Reid (D-Nev.) were not alone in their focus on UFOs. The Democratic heavyweights received critical support and encouragement from a...
With their public feuding and over-the-top allegations of pervasive British racism, Harry and Meghan are self-centeredly and unwittingly helping advance Russia and China's anti-democratic agenda in sub-Saharan Africa.
Judge Aileen Cannon’s indefinite delay of Donald Trump’s documents trial is among the latest roadblocks to the former president seeing trial in several of the outstanding cases against him ahead of the election. Cannon on Tuesday granted one of the earliest asks from Trump’s legal team in declining to set an ultimate trial date — leaving...
Prince George’s County Executive Angela Alsobrooks and Rep. David Trone (D-Md.) are locked in a dead heat in the Maryland Democratic Senate primary, according to a new poll. An Emerson College Polling/The Hill/DC News Now survey released on Thursday showed Alsobrooks at 42 percent and Trone at 41 percent in the Democratic contest to replace...
What do howler monkeys and toucans have in common? Both were recently confiscated at the southern border.
Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) has become the subject of much bemusement among his Senate GOP colleagues as he has taken a detour from his role as a conservative rabble-rouser to playing the lead on reauthorizing the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA). The Texas senator, long-known for stirring up trouble for leadership, has suddenly gone in the...
A tie in the Electoral College in November is a very real possibility — and it could even end with a new President Trump and a new Vice President Harris sharing power. The odds are unprecedented in modern history, but the setup of the country’s electoral system and the fact that a nail-biter election is...
Senate Democrats are venting their fury over Florida Judge Aileen Cannon's decision to cancel the start date of former President Trump’s trial for mishandling classified documents, accusing the Trump appointee of “deliberately slow-walking” the case. Cannon, who serves on the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida, asserted in a five-page order that...
Across the Eastern U.S., trillions of flying, buzzing cicadas are struggling out of the ground and heading for the trees — part of the biggest congregation of the insects to emerge since 1803. This historic emergence is happening from the Gulf Coast to Virginia, and from Illinois to the Atlantic. It represents a loud racket...
Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) said President Biden's warning to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was a "good step forward" in a Wednesday interview, but he hopes to see "even more" from the president going forward. “Well, I think it's a good step forward. I think we've got to do even more,” Sanders told CNN’s Kaitlan...
House Republicans on Wednesday passed a bill that calls for adding a citizenship question to the decennial census, re-upping an issue that the Supreme Court blocked in 2019. The legislation — titled the Equal Representation Act — cleared the chamber in a party-line 206-202 vote. The measure would direct the Census Bureau to add a question to the...
Miss Teen USA, UmaSofia Srivastava, resigned from her title on Wednesday, just days after Miss USA did the same. In a post on Instagram, Srivastava said she had been “grappling with this decision” for months, but ultimately came to the decision to resign, saying, “I find that my personal values no longer fully align with...
Faculty at the University of Southern California voted to censure the university’s president and provost on Wednesday, citing the leadership’s poor handling of pro-Palestine student protests and decision to effectively cancel commencement. The USC Academic Senate voted 21-7, with six abstentions, for censuring President Carol Folt and Provost Andrew Guzman. Faculty were specifically critical of...
A former quality inspector at Boeing’s largest parts supplier said Wednesday that he was pressured to hide defects found in airline parts, adding to scrutiny over the company’s quality control for its 737 aircraft. Santiago Paredes worked for over a decade as an inspector at Spirit Aerosystems, Boeing's largest parts manufacturer. He told CBS News and the BBC that...
Second gentleman Doug Emhoff urged more men to advocate for abortion rights on Tuesday, saying the key 2024 election issue is about more than just women, but families and all Americans. “This is an issue of fairness to women. Women are dying,” Emhoff told NBC’s Yamiche Alcindor. “It’s affecting [men's] ability to plan their lives....
The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) projected in a new report that the extension of tax cuts passed as part of former President Trump’s signature 2017 tax law could add trillions of dollars to the nation’s deficits over roughly the next decade. Citing numbers from the Joint Committee on Taxation, the CBO said Wednesday that the...
President Biden’s move to pause a shipment of heavy bombs to Israel has drawn the fury of Republicans, further polarizing U.S. efforts to deter Israel from launching a bloody campaign in southern Gaza. The U.S. held back some 3,500 bombs that had already been approved for Israel as the White House is growing increasingly frustrated...
President Biden on Wednesday warned he would stop supplying Israel with offensive weapons like bombs and artillery shells if Israeli forces launch an invasion of Rafah, laying down a clear line amid outcry over the conflict in Gaza. "Civilians have been killed in Gaza as a consequence of those bombs and other ways in which...
Presented by AstraZeneca — Around 14 million Americans owe more than $1,000 in medical debt. {beacon} Health Care Health Care The Big Story Congressional progressives want to eliminate medical debt Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) is leading an effort to wipe out the medical debt of the entire country. © Getty The legislation introduced Wednesday...
