Firefighters in the Texas Panhandle scrambled Monday to contain massive wildfires that have already scorched a record-breaking 1.3 million acres in the Lone Star State and forced the evacuation of an entire town. The Smokehouse Creek fire, the largest in the state’s history at more than 1.1 million acres, continued its march east toward Oklahoma,...
We now have initial assessments of what has happened at a number of companies that were early movers in demanding that employees return to working in-person.
The former chief financial officer of the Trump Organization on Monday pleaded guilty to perjury charges stemming from his testimony in former President Trump’s civil fraud trial. Allen Weisselberg, Trump's longtime financial gatekeeper, was a defendant alongside Trump in New York Attorney General Letitia James’s (D) sweeping civil fraud case against the former president and...
Police in King City, Calif., are searching for three men they say opened fire at a California house party, killing four and wounding at least three others. The King City Police Department said officers responded to reports of shots fired around 6 p.m. Sunday and discovered three men with gunshot wounds in front of a...
Former President Trump celebrated a Supreme Court ruling to restore him to the ballot in Colorado as a "BIG WIN FOR AMERICA" on Monday. Trump reacted to the ruling with the four-word post on Truth Social, which was emailed out by his campaign. The Supreme Court unanimously ruled Monday that Colorado cannot disqualify Trump from the...
Bono gave a musical shoutout to Jill Biden, dedicating a song to her and other “great women” during U2’s last night of its Las Vegas residency. The rock band wrapped up their final set of concerts over the weekend at the Sphere venue in Nevada. Its residency began in September. While introducing their 1988 song...
The Supreme Court declined to wade into the constitutionality of college bias response teams Monday, dismissing as moot a request to take up such a case involving Virginia Tech. Speech First, a group formed to advocate for students’ free speech rights, petitioned the court to hear an appeal after a lower court tossed its lawsuit...
The first birth control pill available without a prescription in the U.S. has shipped to retailers and will be available in most stores and online later this month, its manufacturer announced Monday. According to Perrigo, Opill is available for preorder this week from select online retailers and is expected to be on store shelves at...
The European Commission fined Apple nearly $2 billion in an antitrust penalty over how the tech giant’s app store rules impacted the music streaming market, the commission announced Monday. The 1.8 billion euro fine is the first issued by the European Union against the U.S.-based tech giant over antitrust violations. The penalty stems from...
JetBlue Airways and Spirit Airlines announced Monday that they have terminated their merger agreement after a federal judge blocked it nearly two months ago. The airlines, in two separate statements, announced they reached an agreement to terminate the merger announced in July 2022, calling it the “best path forward.” JetBlue said the necessary legal and...
The progressives group Our Revolution is backing the “uncommitted” effort in Washington state, adding to support for the protest vote movement against President Biden’s response to the Israel-Hamas war. The endorsement on Sunday from the progressive group comes after more than 100,000 Michigan voters cast ballots for uncommitted last week. The Democratic Socialists of America...
Young voters want to see changes made to reproductive rights, health care and inflation, according to a new poll released Monday. In partnership with Future Majority research, Rolling Sea Action Fund and ASPIRE PAC, Communities United Action Fund polled 2,257 of voters under the age of 40 living in Arizona, Michigan, Georgia and competitive districts...
Americans' views of both Israel and the Palestinian Authority have dropped as Israel's war with Hamas in Gaza approaches its fifth month of fighting, according to a new Gallup poll. The poll released on Monday found 58 percent of Americans have "very" or "mostly favorable" opinions of Israel, the lowest rate in over 20 years....
Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska) said Saturday that she “could not” vote for either former President Trump or President Biden in the 2024 election, opening the door to third-party support as the candidates likely face off in a general election rematch. Murkowski told NBC News that she “could not” vote for Trump, but added that, “I...
Majorities of Americans in a new survey have doubts about the mental capabilities of both President Biden and former President Trump, as their age develops as a central focus in a likely general election rematch. Roughly 6-in-10 respondents said they’re not very or not at all confident in Biden’s mental capability to serve another term...
The U.S. Supreme Court doesn’t seem to care about its credibility any more.
Former President Trump brushed off a GOP primary loss in Washington, D.C. on Sunday, saying after Nikki Haley claimed her first victory of the primary season that there was no "upside" to competing in the race. “I purposely stayed away from the D.C. Vote because it is the ‘Swamp,’ with very few delegates, and no...
With the clock running out, and the Supreme Court having no appetite for proceeding on Special Counsel Jack Smith’s timetable, it seems more likely than not that there will be no trial of Donald Trump in a federal court before the election.
Lawmakers must reintroduce legislation to permanently expand virtual care access for mental health treatment.
Speculation surrounding the possibility of Nikki Haley launching a third-party bid is mounting as she struggles to win delegates going into Super Tuesday. The group No Labels has said it would be open to the possibility of Haley leading its ticket as it scrambles to find a candidate to top its ticket. Haley, for her...
Split-ticket voting could help keep Democrats competitive in the battle for control of the Senate, even in swing states where President Biden is suffering low approval ratings. Democratic Senate candidates have been significantly outperforming Biden in early polls in battlegrounds like Arizona, Montana and Pennsylvania, fueling hopes that their strength could carry the party to...
The California Senate race is coming down to the wire for Rep. Katie Porter (D-Calif.) as she looks to eke out a second-place showing and advance into November's runoff in the state’s "top two” primary. Polling has shown Rep. Adam Schiff (D-Calif.) leading the crowd of California Senate contenders, with Porter and Republican Steve Garvey...
House conservatives are finding themselves increasingly sidelined and frustrated as Congress barrels toward a bipartisan deal to fund the government through the end of the fiscal year without the steep cuts the far right has demanded. Hard-liners so far have had enough leverage to prevent a long-term budget agreement from being struck, partly because any...
The sprint to stave off a partial government shutdown is set to collide with President Biden’s State of the Union address this week, as the president prepares to go face-to-face with some of his fiercest GOP opponents — who have sharply criticized his handling of spending matters — one day before the funding deadline. Biden’s State...
Unless the political center takes hold in both parties and restrains the excesses of the left and the right, the nation’s course is tragically predictable.