Three years after he was convicted of staging an attack against himself in downtown Chicago, the ruling against Jussie Smollett has been overturned by the Illinois Supreme Court. Smollett was convicted on five counts of felony disorderly conduct and acquitted on a sixth for filing a false police report. The Empire actor claimed in 2019 […]
Matt Gaetz, the former Florida representative and Trump nominee for Attorney General, announced Thursday that he is withdrawing as Trump’s pick for the top prosecutor, citing what he described as the “distraction” his nomination had caused due to a swirl of allegations about paying underage women for sex. “While the momentum was strong, it is […]
A rare 17th Century coin sold at auction for a record-breaking $2.52 million eight years after it was found in an old cabinet in Amsterdam. The 1652 New England threepence, which is about the size of a nickel, was struck in Boston and found over three centuries later, inside an old cabinet in Amsterdam around […]
Vice President Kamala Harris has retreated from the public spotlight since her resounding loss to President-elect Donald Trump two weeks ago. As Democrats reel from a Republican takeover of Washington, Harris traveled to Kalaoa, Hawaii, on Tuesday evening, capping a postelection period in which she has shifted back into the background of the Biden administration. […]
Vivek Ramaswamy and Elon Musk’s new effort to increase government efficiency could initially target the nearly two-thirds of federal workers who are still approved to work from home 18 months after the pandemic ended. Vacant federal office space in downtown Washington is costly to maintain and a deep source of frustration to Mayor Muriel Bowser. […]
Russian President Vladimir Putin signed a revised nuclear doctrine on Tuesday stating that any attack on Russia supported by a country with nuclear power could be grounds for a nuclear response. Putin signed the new policy on the 1,000th day of the war with Ukraine and the day after President Biden authorized Ukraine to use […]
Tech entrepreneur Vivek Ramaswamy, who accepted a role alongside Elon Musk in President-elect Trump’s incoming administration to lead the new “Department of Government Efficiency” (DOGE), said “certain agencies” are expected to be “deleted outright.” “We expect mass reductions,” said during an appearance on Fox News’s “Sunday Morning Futures” with Maria Bartiromo. “We expect certain agencies […]
President Joe Biden’s decision to enable Ukraine to employ American long-range missiles in Russia demonstrates that his administration intends to “throw oil on the fire” of the crisis, a Kremlin spokesperson told reporters. “It is obvious the outgoing administration in the United States wants to throw oil on the fire and escalate the conflict in […]
Calls from Republicans are intensifying for Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) to pick President-elect Trump’s daughter-in-law Lara Trump to replace his secretary of State pick, Marco Rubio, in the Senate. On Thursday, Florida Sen. Rick Scott (R) said he hopes Trump picks his daughter-in-law, echoing his colleagues Sens. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) and Katie Britt (R-Ala.). […]
Democrats in blue Pennsylvania counties have admitted to counting illegal ballots in the Senate race that is headed for a recount. Republican candidate Dave McCormick was projected as the winner by The Associated Press, but is only leading Democratic incumbent Bob Casey by 29,000 votes. Pennsylvania Secretary of the Commonwealth Al Schmidt told reporters that […]
Democrats are rethinking the “weird” targets they put on Republicans’ backs as they compete to rebrand the Democratic National Committee. After voters delivered his party stinging losses in the White House, Senate, and the House last week, DNC Chairman Jaime Harrison is not expected to seek a second term to keep his position next year. […]
The great X-odus is under way. More than 1 million new users have joined the social media platform Bluesky since the US election. Many are seeking to escape Elon Musk’s X amid warnings from anti-hate speech campaign groups and the EU about misinformation and extremism on the platform. But what exactly is Bluesky, why it […]