The second day of deliberations in Kyle Rittenhouse’s homicide trial ended Wednesday with a defense request to toss out charges still looming over the high-profile Wisconsin trial. The case went to jury late Tuesday morning with Kenosha County Circuit Judge Bruce Schroeder having not ruled on defense requests for a mistrial with prejudice — to have charges tossed out […]
The convictions of two of the three men in the assassination of the civil rights activist Malcolm X are expected to be thrown out Thursday. The men, Muhammad A. Aziz and Khalil Islam, always maintained their innocence in the 1965 assassination of Malcolm X, who rose to become one of the most prominent leaders of […]
The governor of North Dakota signed a bill Friday banning critical race theory (CRT) in schools, making North Dakota the latest Republican-controlled state to take legislative action against CRT in public education. “This bill addresses the concerns of parents while preserving the decision-making authority of local school boards to approve curriculum that is factual, objective and aligned with state content standards,” Gov. […]
An overwhelming majority of voters said cancel culture has gone too far, a new Hill-HarrisX poll finds. Seventy-one percent of registered voters said they strongly or somewhat believe that cancel culture has gone too far. By contrast, 29 percent of respondents said they believe a little or not at all. The Hill-HarrisX poll used the […]
A Wisconsin judge on Monday dismissed a misdemeanor charge against Kyle Rittenhouse, the teenager facing murder charges for fatally shooting two protesters during unrest over police brutality last year in Kenosha, Wis. The charge of possession of a dangerous weapon by a minor was dropped Monday morning as jurors were waiting to hear closing arguments […]
Democrats and independents are becoming more and more disenchanted by President Joe Biden and his administration, as approval of the president reached a new low in The Washington Post/ABC News poll. Strikingly, Biden is 12 points under water on job approval (53% disapprove, just 41% approve), which is roughly equal to the 10-point edge Republicans […]
Inflation isn’t going anywhere fast — but prices certainly are. The latest Consumer Price Index for October recorded a 6.2 percent increase, year over year, according to data released Wednesday by the Bureau of Labor Statistics. It’s the largest increase in over 30 years and far outpaced economists’ expectations of a 5.9 percent spike. October’s […]
Minnesota Vikings offensive lineman Dakota Dozier, who is vaccinated, was hospitalized on Tuesday night after contacting COVID-19, reports say. Head coach Mike Zimmer confirmed to reporters on Wednesday that dozens of players and staff are being tested after being deemed a close contact with a player that was sent to the emergency room with COVID. […]
WASHINGTON — The House select committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol issued a new round of subpoenas on Tuesday to 10 former officials who worked in the Trump administration, including Kayleigh McEnany and Stephen Miller. McEnany had been serving as White House press secretary on the day of the riot, a position she held from April […]
President Biden’s approval rating continued to sink in a new poll released on Sunday, following weeks of drama on Capitol Hill regarding his legislative agenda and the party’s losses in Virginia on Tuesday. The poll was conducted by USA Today and Suffolk University between Wednesday and Friday of last week, just before Democrats passed an […]
The U.S. added 531,000 jobs in October and the unemployment rate dropped 0.2 percentage points to 4.6 percent as the country began to shake off a summer surge of COVID-19, according to data released Friday by the Labor Department. The October jobs report showed the labor market rebounding after the July emergence of the delta […]
China is building nuclear warheads at an “accelerating pace” and will have 1,000 by the end of the decade, according to the Pentagon’s new China report released Wednesday after a two-month delay. Just a year ago in the last China report, the Pentagon had estimated China’s nuclear arsenal to be in the “low-200s” and would “at least double” over the […]