The Pentagon on Friday called on Russia to stand down on Ukraine as tensions rise over the threat of a Russian military invasion. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin in a briefing with reporters said Moscow has for months been deploying forces along Ukraine’s border at a “consistent and steady pace,” which has been supported by Russian […]
President Biden and congressional Democrats are getting less done in Washington than a plurality of voters expected, according to a new poll. Meanwhile, a separate poll released this week shows Biden’s approval rating reaching the lowest point of his presidency. The sluggish poll results emerged as the Biden administration was grappling with inflation fears among […]
Democratic Sen. Joe Manchin said Sunday he cannot back his party’s signature $2 trillion social and environment bill, seemingly dealing a fatal blow to President Joe Biden’s leading domestic initiative heading into an election year when Democrats’ narrow hold on Congress was already in peril. Manchin told “Fox News Sunday” that he always has made […]
15 million people, including nearly 6 million children, could be at risk of losing their Medicaid eligibility when the protection expires, according to the Urban Institute, an economic and policy research think tank. The change could have an outsize effect on communities of color, the Urban Institute concluded. Many are likely to be eligible for […]
As the omicron variant of the coronavirus is poised to become the new leading variant in the United States, many schools and businesses are closing their doors over what President Biden is predicting to be a winter of “severe illness and death.” President Biden has previously claimed he would “shut down the virus,” and added he would not “shut down the […]
A divided Supreme Court on Monday turned away a pair of religious-based requests to temporarily block New York state’s COVID-19 vaccine mandate for health care workers. The order was unsigned, though the court’s three most conservative justices indicated they would have ruled for the religious-based objectors. A group of doctors, nurses and health care personnel […]
The U.S. has reached the grim milestone of 800,000 deaths related to COVID-19, Reuters reports. Over 450,000 people in the United States have died after contracting COVID-19 so far in 2021, according to the news service, which added that the total accounts for 57 percent of all U.S. deaths from the illness since the pandemic […]
President Biden’s approval rating on crime has plummeted as smash-and-grab lootings plague California and other areas of the country. About 36% of Americans support Biden’s handling of crimes, according to a ABC/Ipsos poll released Sunday. The percentage is down from an October ABC/Ipsos poll, which found 43% of people approved of Biden’s handling of crime. […]
Two civilians are confirmed dead after an alleged human smuggler transporting illegal migrants collided with their vehicle. The victims were killed Saturday in Mission, Texas, after a human smuggler, being pursued by police, ran a stop sign and T-boned their vehicle, according to the Texas Department of Public Safety (DPS). Texas DPS confirmed the fatalities […]
Two dozen people were indicted in Georgia last month on charges of smuggling Mexican and Central American immigrants to the United States and forcing them to live in camps and work on farms in the state in what authorities say was an illegal enterprise akin to “modern-day slavery.” Named “Operation Blooming Onion,” the yearslong probe […]
WASHINGTON — A federal appeals court ruled Thursday that former President Donald Trump cannot prevent the House Jan. 6 committee from getting hundreds of documents created when he was in the White House. A three-judge panel at the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia ruled that although Trump retained some authority to […]
At least 12 major U.S. cities already have set annual homicide records with three weeks remaining in 2021. Chicago led the nation with 739 homicides as of the end of November. That’s up 3% from 2020, according to Chicago Police Department crime data, but well short of the city’s 974 homicides in 1970. ABC News […]