A majority of young adults say they would not live in a state that has banned abortion, according to a new survey released Tuesday. In the CNBC/Generation Lab poll of 1,033 adults ages 18-34, a total of 62 percent say they would “probably not” (32 percent) or “definitely not” (30 percent) live in a state...
Rapper Macklemore went after President Biden in a new song on the war in Gaza and recent pro-Palestinian student protests. “The blood is on your hands, Biden, we can see it all,” the rapper says in a video featuring the song, titled “Hind’s Hall,” seemingly in reference to what pro-Palestinian protestors renamed a building on...
The lack of transparency threatens American democracy.
An outside panel of advisers to the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) will meet next month to discuss a new Alzheimer’s drug from Eli Lilly, the company said Tuesday. The panel will meet June 10, three months after FDA said it wanted advisers to scrutinize the safety and effectiveness of the drug, called donanemab. ...
Rep. Don Bacon (R-Neb.) said he will file a resolution to censure Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) on Tuesday after the Minnesota Democrat suggested that some Jewish students are “pro-genocide.” Bacon said he does not plan to make his resolution privileged, which means the House will not immediately vote on the measure. He said he will...
Lawmakers in both parties should use the hearing to not only deliver bipartisan condemnation of rising antisemitism but also to deliver bipartisan solutions that help schools more effectively address it.
The online trading platform Robinhood is bracing for a potential lawsuit or administrative order from the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) over its cryptocurrency offerings. In a recent regulatory filing, the platform revealed that Robinhood Crypto, its digital currency trading operation, received a "Wells Notice" from the SEC — a formal warning of a pending...
Last winter's unusual onslaught of rain and snow led to California's first increase in groundwater levels in four years, state officials reported on Monday. The 2023 Water Year — which spanned from Oct. 1, 2022, through Sept. 30, 2023 — brought a welcome 4.1 million acre-feet of managed groundwater recharge and a total rise in...
The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has launched an investigation into the Boeing 787 Dreamliner after the company reported alleged "misconduct" by some employees who may have falsely reported performing key tests during production. The FAA said in a statement that “the company voluntarily informed us in April that it may not have completed required inspections...
Story at a glance Utah earned the top spot in U.S. News & World Report’s Best States rankings. This is the second year in a row Utah has been ranked the best state in the country with the outlet attributing the Beehive State’s high scores in five categories used in the ranking for its success. ...
Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-Mich.) has called on the International Criminal Court (ICC) to issue arrest warrants for Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and other Israeli officials after Israel's military seized control of the Rafah crossing on Tuesday. Tlaib, the only Palestinian American in Congress, said with the ongoing incursion into the southern city of Rafah, there...
Most registered voters say they expect former President Trump to be convicted on some or all counts in his ongoing hush money criminal trial in New York, according to a poll released Tuesday. The Suffolk University/USA Today survey, conducted from April 30 to May 3, shows 65.1 percent of registered voters expect the jury to...
The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) announced Monday they will no longer require diversity statements from prospective faculty. The school says the decision was directed by President Sally Kornbluth “with the support of the Provost, Chancellor, Vice President for Equity and Inclusion, and all six academic deans.” “My goals are to tap into...
Federal investigators are asking Tesla for more information on the Autopilot fix, which was instituted in the wake of a 2023 recall of more than 2 million Tesla vehicles. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) is looking for more information from the auto manufacturer as the number of crashes has gone up, despite the...
Pro-Palestinian protesters retook their encampment on the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) campus Monday evening, just hours after mostly vacating the area. The group of tents had been almost entirely emptied out by the 2:30 p.m. deadline set by administrators Monday, with only five students remaining at that time, according to MIT officials. Many other...
If, very soon, No Labels does not regain its footing and present a plausible unity ticket, the only alternative for the millions of voters who reject the Trump-Biden choice will be to write in Nikki Haley’s name in November.
A group of right-leaning federal judges sent a letter to the president and law dean of Columbia University saying they won’t hire graduates of their school after the unrest that has taken over campus the last few weeks of the academic year. “As judges who hire law clerks every year to serve in the federal...
The Bureau of Prisons just can’t be trusted to police itself. Congress is finally moving to impose outside oversight on the runaway agency.
President Biden’s reelection campaign is hitting former President Trump with a new digital ad on the anniversary of the Trump administration’s family separation policy. The 50-second ad, entitled “Ripped Apart,” aims to target Latino voters across battleground states, according to the campaign. It includes images of the children at the border and quotes from Trump...
Former President Trump appeared to delete a social media post Tuesday morning complaining that his legal team did not have adequate time to prepare for the next witness in the hush money criminal trial, within an hour of initially posting it. In his statement posted at 7:30 a.m. on his Truth Social platform, Trump said...
Kevin Spacey is throwing his support behind Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., praising the independent presidential candidate for sticking by him when the "world turned its back" on the actor amid his legal troubles. "There's a lot I can learn from this man," Spacey wrote of Kennedy in a Monday post on X. "When the world...
Central policy planning sounds easy but, in fact, is exceedingly difficult.
Stormy Daniels, the porn actor at the center of former President Trump's hush money trial is expected to next take the witness stand in Manhattan on Tuesday, according to multiple reports. The Associated Press s cited her attorney, who said she is "likely" to be the trial's next witness. ABC News reported sources suggested the...
Boeing's first astronaut launch was scrubbed Monday due to a valve problem, further delaying the company's historic takeoff. The company's attempt to send its Starline capsule to the International Space Station (ISS) was halted by The United Launch Alliance (ULA) over “an observation on a liquid oxygen self-regulating solenoid relief valve on the Centaur upper...
Where does Israel’s policy of violent coercion rather than cooperation and an ever-widening reliance on military force come from?