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ftwitty/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Former President Donald Trump is on trial in New York in a $370 million civil lawsuit that could alter the personal fortune and real estate empire that helped propel Trump to the White House. Trump, his sons Eric Trump and and Donald Trump Jr., and other top Trump Organization executives […]
Spencer Platt/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — Former President Donald Trump said on Wednesday that he’s decided who his vice presidential pick will be if he wins the 2024 Republican nomination — but his campaign quickly downplayed that claim, saying the issue hasn’t been discussed in “any great detail.” “I know who it’s going to be,” Trump […]
Jason Marz/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — A federal judge has ruled that a lawsuit challenging book bans in Escambia County, Florida, can move forward on the same day the county released an updated list of more than 2,800 individual books that have been pulled from shelves for review. U.S. District Judge T. Kent Wetherell II […]
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis and former Ambassador to the U.N. Nikki Haley speak during the fifth Republican presidential primary debate at Drake University in Des Moines, Iowa, on Jan. 10, 2024. (Jim Watson/AFP via Getty Images) (DES MOINES, Iowa) — Former South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley and Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis clashed on Wednesday night […]
NM Department of Cultural Affairs (NEW YORK) — Paleontologists have discovered a new species of dinosaur that could be the closest-known relative of the famed Tyrannosaurus rex. The jaw of the dinosaur was found in 1983 by civilians boating in the Elephant Butte reservoir in Las Cruces, New Mexico, Spencer Lucas, curator of paleontology at […]
Lokman Vural Elibol/Anadolu via Getty Images (NEW YORK) — New York City officials said they have issued vacate orders due to an illegally constructed “underground tunnel” connected to a Chabad synagogue complex where chaos erupted this week over the secret passageway. Engineers with the city’s Department of Buildings have been investigating the site since Tuesday […]
Edward Diller/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — Fallout continues Wednesday from Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin’s secretive hospitalization, revealed to be for complications resulting from prostate cancer treatment, and the botched notification process that followed — including a Democrat’s call for his resignation and congressional Republicans’ demand that top Pentagon officials provide answers about who knew what and when. […]
Graeme Sloan/Bloomberg via Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — In a blow to House Speaker Mike Johnson, a group of hard-line Republicans tanked a procedural vote on Wednesday in a revolt of a tentative funding deal he negotiated with Democrats to prevent a government shutdown. Thirteen Republicans joined Democrats to effectively bring the House floor to a stop, […]
Tetra Images – Erik Isakson/Getty Images (SACRAMENTO, Calif.) — The California legislature began debating a bill Wednesday that would ban youth tackle football for children under age 12. AB 734, introduced last year by Sacramento Assemblymember Kevin McCarty, a Democrat, would “prohibit a youth sports organization that conducts a tackle football program, or a youth tackle […]
Gaelen Morse/Bloomberg via Getty Images (COLUMBUS, Ohio) — The Ohio House has voted to override Gov. Mike DeWine’s veto against Ohio House Bill 68 in a 65-28 vote. This bill would ban transgender minors from receiving gender-affirming medical care and prevent transgender girls from taking part in girls’ and women’s sports. The Ohio Senate will vote […]
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