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Gary Miller/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — The satirical website The Onion purchased InfoWars on Thursday, a capstone on years of litigation and bankruptcy proceedings following InfoWars founder Alex Jones’ defamation of families associated with the Sandy Hook Elementary School massacre. Those families backed The Onion’s bid to purchase InfoWars’ intellectual property, including its website, customer lists and […]
FatCamera/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Infant mortality rates remained relatively unchanged from 2022 to 2023, but racial and ethnic disparities still persist, new provisional federal data released early Thursday finds. The U.S. provisional infant mortality rate in 2023 was 5.61 infant deaths per 1,000 live births, unchanged from the 2022 rate, according to a report […]
Karl Tapales/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — Social media platform TikTok is hurtling toward a U.S. ban that could upend its business and frustrate more than 150 million American users — unless President-elect Donald Trump finds a way to reverse the policy. Trump, who boasts 14 million followers on TikTok, voiced opposition to the ban earlier this […]
Photo by Mario Tama/Getty Images (WASHINGTON, D.C.) — President-elect Donald Trump announced on Wednesday that he has chosen Rep. Matt Gaetz as his pick for attorney general, a move that, if he’s confirmed by the Senate, would place a firebrand and one of Trump’s most loyal allies at the head of the Justice Department. “Matt […]
FBI (WASHINGTON) — Federal authorities are offering a $25,000 reward in connection with a series of arson incidents involving ballot boxes in Washington state and Oregon during early voting last month. The FBI said Wednesday it is seeking the public’s assistance in identifying a suspect sought in three incendiary fires. The agency is offering a […]
SimpleImages/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Special counsel Jack Smith on Wednesday asked a federal appeals court to pause his appeal of the dismissal of President-elect Donald Trump’s classified documents case. The move is part of Smith’s winding down of his two cases against Trump — the classified documents case and the federal election interference case […]
Courtesy Sue Benedict (OWASSO, Okla.) — The U.S. Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights (OCR) announced Wednesday that Owasso Public Schools in Oklahoma has “entered into an agreement to remedy violations of Title IX” concerning sexual harassment in its schools following the February death of LGBTQ+ student Nex Benedict. The OCR states that its […]
SimpleImages/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — The climate crisis is not a distant threat; it’s happening right now and affecting what matters most to us. Hurricanes intensified by a warming planet and drought-fueled wildfires are destroying our communities. Rising seas and flooding are swallowing our homes. And record-breaking heatwaves are reshaping our way of life. The […]
Allison Robbert-Pool/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — President-elect Donald Trump, ahead of his return to power in January, is announcing who he wants to fill Cabinet positions and other key roles inside his administration. Trump began to roll out his nominees and appointees just days after his election victory over Vice President Kamala Harris. They include some of […]
Simona Granati – Corbis/Corbis via Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — The Rainbow Youth Project, a national LGBTQ advocacy group, typically fields about 800 calls a month on its crisis outreach hotline. In just 10 days, as the 2024 presidential election came to a head, the organization told ABC News it received roughly 5,400. Organizers say they […]
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