JERUSALEM -- The families of women soldiers held hostage by Hamas allowed the release on Wednesday of harrowing video showing of the violent abduction during the attack of Oct 7. The video, three minutes and ten seconds long, is a short compilation of footage taken from Hamas body cameras. It shows the rounding up of...
Fish oil may increase the risk of stroke and heart conditions like atrial fibrillation, a new study found. The study, published Tuesday in the journal BMJ Medicine, followed more than 400,000 people in the United Kingdom aged 40 to 69 for 12 years. Those people used fish oil supplements regularly. Fish oil supplements are a...
President Biden on Wednesday celebrated the Senate confirming the 200th judge since he took office, framing it as a major milestone that underscored the issues at stake in November's election. The Senate confirmed Magistrate Judge Angela Martinez to become a federal judge in the District of Arizona, making her the 200th judicial nominee of Biden's...
A study published Wednesday found a higher risk of psychotic disorders among teens who use marijuana. “This study provides new evidence of a strong but age-dependent association between cannabis use and risk of psychotic disorder, consistent with the neurodevelopmental theory that adolescence is a vulnerable time to use cannabis,” the study, published in the journal...
A Singapore Airlines flight from London to Singapore experienced such severe turbulence that a person was killed and several more were injured.
Almost 6,000 doctors called on the Supreme Court to protect emergency abortions, urging it to uphold a federal law recently challenged by Idaho. Nearly 6,000 physicians from all around the country penned a letter Wednesday asking the nation’s highest court to uphold protections for patients who are experiencing complications and need emergency abortion care. “We...
A majority of Americans wrongly believe the country is in a recession, a new survey found. A Harris Poll, conducted for The Guardian, found that nearly 3 in 5 respondents say the U.S. is in a recession, even though experts say there hasn’t been one since 2020. A recession is defined as a period of...
House and Senate Democrats are referring the results of their probe into alleged climate disinformation by the oil industry to the Justice Department. “We are making a formal referral to Attorney General [Merrick] Garland to commence a proper inquiry into whether charges should be brought and what charges should be brought,” Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-R.I.)...
The IRS tax filing program that allows citizens to use certain corporate tax filing software for free is being extended through 2029, the agency announced Wednesday. Participating software companies for 2024 include Tax Act, Online Taxes, Tax Hawk and On-Line Taxes. “Free File remains an important part of the IRS portfolio to help taxpayers file...
Kevin R. Brock, one of the FBI’s most transformational leaders in the years following 9/11, passed away last month.
The House Agriculture committee is trying to fund its farm bill proposals with “counterfeit money,” Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack told reporters Wednesday morning. Vilsack spoke after a range of groups from across the political spectrum criticized House Republicans’ proposed farm bill, which seeks to direct tens of billions to subsidies for farmers of peanuts, rice and cotton....
Music artist Sean “Diddy” Combs was hit this week with a lawsuit alleging he drugged and sexually assaulted a model in the early 2000s, marking the latest in a series of accusations against him. The lawsuit, filed Tuesday in federal court in New York City, states that Crystal McKinney — then a 22-year-old rising model —...
Call it the Haley factor — it could be the difference between 2016 and 2020 for Trump.
Former President Trump falsely claimed in a fundraising email that President Biden was “locked & loaded and ready to take me out” — twisting standard language from documents prepared as law enforcement readied to search Mar-a-Lago for classified records. Trump's comment plucks from court filings a policy statement prepared by law enforcement that lays out...
Policymakers need to take this seriously and stand up for the public interest.
White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre is slated to deliver remarks Wednesday during a press briefing. The event is scheduled to begin at 1 p.m. EDT. Watch the video above.
House Oversight Chair James Comer (R-Ky.) and Rep. Katie Porter (D-Calif.) introduced a bill Wednesday that would require presidents to make a series of disclosures about their relatives’ foreign earnings — drafting a laundry list of obligations stemming from the GOP inquiry into President Biden. The legislation requires presidents and vice presidents to disclose anything...
The Congressional Hispanic Caucus (CHC) is blasting the revival of the bipartisan Senate border deal, opposing both its content and its potential to upend any forward motion to reform the immigration system. Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) is bringing the legislation back from the dead to prop up vulnerable Democrats including Sens. Jon Tester...
Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) on Wednesday pushed back on claims that former President Trump’s political opponents are out to kill him as “outlandish and dangerous” and urged GOP colleagues to tamp down conspiracies he worries could lead to violence. “What Donald Trump said falsely suggesting his political opponents are out to kill him...
Oprah Winfrey, Serena Williams and Sandra Bullock are among the female celebrities voters would be most likely to support if they made a political run, according to a new poll. Nearly 30 percent of those surveyed in the Suffolk University/USA Today poll released Wednesday said they would be "more likely" to support former talk show host Winfrey...
The increase in sexually transmitted infections (STI) has caused a “major concern” for health officials, according to a new report published Tuesday by the World Health Organization (WHO). One of the curable STI diseases, syphilis, has increased to over a million among adults aged 19-45 in 2022, according to the report. The highest spike was...
Biotech entrepreneur and former GOP presidential nominee Vivek Ramaswamy acquired an activist stake in BuzzFeed, according to a new regulatory filing. A May filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission shows Ramaswamy acquired a 7.7 percent stake and 2.7 million shares in BuzzFeed as the company continues to face financial challenges. The billionaire used his...
An open civil society that allows protest can be a soft power asset.
A growing portion of Americans are reporting daily and near-daily marijuana use, in numbers now higher than the share of daily and near-daily alcohol drinkers, according to a new analysis. About 17.7 million people in 2022 recorded daily or nearly daily use of marijuana, compared to the 14.7 million who reported the same habits for...
The time is ripe for a new, bolder partnership between the U.S. and Africa. Presidents Biden and Ruto are right to call for a transition away from a relationship built on aid to one that fosters sustainable economic growth and increased trade, seeding the grounds both for a booming manufacturing sector in Africa and a clean energy revolution in the U.S.