Schools across the country will need to include less sugar and salt in meals but can keep chocolate milk on the menu, the Biden administration said in its announcement of new nutrition standards published Wednesday. The new rules marks the first time added sugars will be limited in school meals nationwide, according to the U.S. […]

Some of the illegal immigrants flown to Martha’s Vineyard by Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis in 2022 are expected to receive a special visa that would allow them to stay and work, their attorney said. Those individuals applied last year for what’s known as the U visa, a special type of immigration status granted to crime […]

Israeli military’s top intelligence officer has resigned over his role in failing to prevent last October’s surprise attack on Israel. Maj. Gen. Aharon Haliva, who served the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) for 38 years, will step down as the chief of its intelligence arm and retire. He is the first senior Israeli official to take […]

The man who set himself on fire outside a Manhattan courthouse where former President Donald Trump’s so-called hush money trial was proceeding has died from his injuries, police said. Max Azzarello, a 37-year-old resident of St. Augustine, Florida, carried out the act of self-immolation on Friday afternoon in Collect Pond Park, located across the street […]

The Biden administration finalized its rule overhauling Title IX on Friday, leaving schools and colleges across the country a few months to update their policies on how to handle sex discrimination complaints based on a new, broadened definition of sex. Title IX is the federal law that prohibits sex discrimination—including sexual harassment and sexual violence—in […]

Tesla is planning to lay off more than 10 percent of its global workforce in the wake of its first year-over-year decline in vehicle deliveries since 2020. The electric vehicle giant will let go at least 14,000 of the 140,473 employees it reported in December 2023 in its latest annual earnings, according to an internal […]

A Florida woman has been sentenced to one month in prison for her role in stealing a diary that belonged to President Joe Biden’s daughter and selling it to undercover journalist group Project Veritas weeks before the 2020 election. In a ruling handed down on Tuesday, U.S. District Judge Laura Taylor Swain ordered Aimee Harris, […]

President Joe Biden faces a fresh lawsuit from a seven-state coalition challenging his “most generous ever” federal student loan repayment plan, under which millions of borrowers would have a monthly bill of $0. In their complaint, filed on April 8 at a federal court in Missouri, the states argued that what the Biden administration calls […]

Cole Brings Plenty, the actor known for his role in the “Yellowstone” prequel series “1923,” has been found dead after going missing last week. He was 27. The actor’s body was found on Friday after police officers of Johnson County, Kansas were dispatched to examine an unoccupied vehicle, the county sheriff’s office said in a […]

The illegal immigrant who attracted a massive following on TikTok offering his comrades tips on how to take over people’s homes has been arrested by the feds. Leonel Moreno, a citizen of Venezuela, gained notoriety encouraging “fellow Venezuelans” to illegally come to the United States and live as squatters. “If a house is not inhabited, […]

It costs Novo Nordisk less than $5 per month to produce its top-selling diabetes injection, Ozempic, even as it charges nearly $1,000 for a month’s supply before insurance, according to a new study. The study, published Wednesday in the journal JAMA Network Open, raises questions about the prohibitive cost of the popular diabetes treatment and […]

The governing board of New York City’s public transportation network has approved a much-debated congestion pricing plan, which includes charging $15 for motorists entering Manhattan during high traffic hours. At its meeting on Wednesday, the Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) board voted 11 to 1 to charge most commercial and passenger vehicles that would drive into […]

Joe Lieberman, four-term U.S. Senator for Connecticut and Al Gore’s running mate in the 2000 presidential election, has died at the age of 82. Lieberman’s family stated that he died “due to complications from a fall.” “His beloved wife, Hadassah, and members of his family were with him as he passed,” the statement read. At […]

Three senior Boeing executives, including chief executive Dave Calhoun, are stepping down as the commercial airliner maker is embroiled in a deepening scandal over the quality of its products. In a company-wide message on Monday, Mr. Calhoun called it a “watershed moment” for Boeing when a door panel blew out on a 737 Max-9 flown […]

At least 133 people died in a massacre at a concert hall in Moscow on Friday night in what was the deadliest terror attack on Russian soil in over a decade. Islamic State Khorasan (ISIS-K), a terrorist group based in Afghanistan, claimed responsibility for the carnage. The ISIS branch claimed responsibility for the massacre in […]

Brazilian police have indicted former President Jair Bolsonaro on allegations he faked his COVID-19 vaccination records to travel abroad, paving the way for possible criminal fraud charges against the conservative leader. Brazil’s federal police on Tuesday formally accused Mr. Bolsonaro, an outspoken skeptic of the global COVID vaccine rollout and harsh public health restrictions, of […]

A small private jet crashed into woods in Virginia and burned on March 10, killing all five people on board, police said. It was the second, five-fatality incident within a week, following a small plane crash in Tennessee on March 5. On March 10, a twin-engine IAI Astra 1125 crashed near Ingalls Field Airport in […]

Jim Beard, a musician known for his work with Steely Dan for the past 16 years, has died at the age of 63. The Hall-of-Fame rock band confirmed on Wednesday the death of their longtime keyboardist. “It is with great sadness that we announce the loss of our friend and colleague,” it wrote on its website. Mr. […]

The U.S. military on Saturday began dropping meal bundles over the Gaza Strip, the besieged enclave where supply trucks have been overwhelmed and looted. Three C-130 cargo planes dropped a total of 66 pallets containing about 38,000 meals ready-to-eat over Gaza, in the first of many upcoming rounds of emergency humanitarian aid authorized by President […]

The Israeli military has proposed a plan for attacking Hamas forces in Rafah, the city on the southern edge of the Gaza Strip where more than 1 million displaced Palestinians have been sheltering. The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) “presented the war cabinet with a plan for evacuating the population from the areas of fighting in […]

Yale University on Thursday said it will once again require prospective undergraduate students to submit their standardized test scores to be considered for admission. Yale adopted a test-optional admissions policy in June 2020, when most colleges and universities in the United States dropped their test score requirements as widespread pandemic lockdowns forced testing locations to […]

A total of $1.2 billion in federal student loan debt will be automatically discharged for 153,000 borrowers enrolled in President Joe Biden’s “most generous ever” repayment plan, the U.S. Department of Education said on Wednesday. To be eligible for the latest round of student loan debt cancellation, the borrowers must be enrolled in the new […]

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton is poised to be tried this spring after the presiding judge rejected his request to dismiss the almost 9-year-old felony fraud charges against him. The judge, Andrea Beall, decided on Friday that Mr. Paxton will go to trial in the case. The trial is set to start on April 15. […]

Country music star Chris Young was arrested on Monday night at a Nashville bar, but a newly surfaced security video from inside the bar is raising questions about what happened. According to the arrest affidavit, Mr. Young has been charged with disorderly conduct, assaulting an officer, and resisting arrest following an alleged physical altercation with […]

Sweden is another step closer to becoming NATO’s 32nd member after the parliament of Turkey on Tuesday voted to ratify the Nordic country’s application to join the transatlantic military alliance. The vote comes three months after Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan sent Sweden’s NATO membership bill to parliament for ratification. Mr. Erdoğan is expected to […]

A bid to remove former President Donald Trump from the primary election ballot in Massachusetts has failed at the state’s ballot law commission, which said they lack jurisdiction to address the matter. The decision was handed down Monday after the bipartisan State Ballot Law Commission held a hearing last week to discuss whether they have […]

“Pawn Stars” lead Rick Harrison on Monday tore into the narcotic trafficking crisis coming through the nation’s southern border, revealing that his son had fallen victim to it. His son, Adam “Wax” Harrison, was found dead in Las Vegas last Friday at the age of 39. His father on Monday confirmed that the tragedy was […]

“Pawn Stars” lead Rick Harrison has broken his silence after the death of one of his sons, taking to social media to post a heartfelt tribute. The son, Adam “Wax” Harrison, reportedly died in Las Vegas on Friday at the age of 39. The Las Vegas Review-Journal initially reported Adam’s death, and the Harrison family […]

The U.S. Department of Education on Friday said it’s canceling nearly $5 billion in federal student loan debt owed by some 73,600 borrowers, a majority of whom are public servants. The announcement marks the the latest effort by the Biden administration to target specific groups of federal student loan borrowers by tweaking and expanding rules […]

A ban on importing Apple Watches with blood oxygen sensors will be reinstated on Thursday, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit said. In a decision handed down Wednesday, the federal appeal court did not rule on Apple’s effort to appeal a U.S. International Trade Commission (ITC) ruling that prevented the company from […]

Late “All My Children” star Alec Musser’s cause of death has been unveiled. After his fiancée, Paige Press, told media that Mr. Musser was suffering from “a severe case of COVID,” the San Diego County Medical Examiner’s Office on Tuesday reported that he appeared to have died from suicide. Mr. Musser was found by Ms. […]

Boeing’s 737 MAX 9 planes won’t be returning to service any time soon as the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) said Friday they would not allow the planes to return to the skies until entirely satisfied with their safety. The decision to order airlines to immediately stop flying MAX 9s came after part of an Alaska […]

While Republicans seeking the party’s 2024 presidential nomination make their final push ahead of the critical Jan. 15 Iowa caucus, hazardous winter weather across the state has forced some of them to change their campaign plans. As of Tuesday morning, much of Iowa remains under a winter storm warning after heavy snow and strong winds […]

Harvard President Claudine Gay has resigned following allegations of plagiarism, a month after testimony before Congress where she refused to state that calling for the genocide of Jews constituted harassment. In a letter, Ms. Gay said that stepping down “is not a decision I came to easily.” “It has become clear that it is in […]

Busloads of illegal immigrants en route for New York City are being dropped off at various train stations in New Jersey, state and local officials said, an apparent attempt to exploit a “loophole” in New York City’s latest order restricting their arrival. According to a notice posted on Dec. 31 on the official X account […]

One day after an import ban on certain Apple Watches officially went into effect, a federal appeals court placed the ban on a brief hold while it weighs whether to grant a longer-term pause. In a victory for Apple, the U.S. Court of Appeals on Wednesday ordered a halt on the ban on the import […]

An Austrian business school has severed ties with Harvard University, adding to the international backlash over the Ivy League college’s handling of anti-Semitic rhetoric on campus over the Israel-Hamas war. Lauder Business School, located in Vienna, Austria, said in a statement earlier this month that the decision to end its partnership with Harvard was meant […]

The Biden administration declined to veto an import ban on certain Apple smartwatches involved in a health care patent infringement case, allowing the ban to take effect. In October, the U.S. International Trade Commission (ITC) upheld a ruling in favor of two Irvine, California-based companies, Masimo Corp. and Cercacor Laboratories, which sued Apple in 2021 […]

A “significant” winter storm is set to bring heavy snow to many in the Plains and create “hazardous” travel conditions, while much of the country can expect a wet, rainy Christmas, the National Weather Service said. In an update posted on Monday, the National Weather Service’s Weather Prediction Center said that the storm will “let […]

President Joe Biden said Friday that he will commute the sentences of nearly a dozen people who have been serving “disproportionally long” prison sentences for non-violent drug offenses. These individuals, President Biden said, “would have been eligible to receive significantly lower sentences if they were charged with the same offense today.” The president will also […]

After more than two weeks of discussions on how to keep the global temperature from rising further, the United Nation’s climate summit in Dubai concluded on Wednesday morning with an agreement calling for the world to “transition away” from fossil fuels. The non-binding pact was struck by representatives of nearly 200 countries attending the summit—known […]

The Biden administration said it is going to spend $3 billion to help less developed economies address the impact of climate change, including more than $400 million to advance “gender equity” in those countries. The announcement comes as Vice President Kamala Harris, speaking on Saturday at the United Nations’ annual climate summit in Dubai, urged […]

Walmart on Friday said it has pulled advertisements from X, joining a list of big advertisers to leave the platform formerly known as Twitter. “We aren’t advertising on X as we’ve found some other platforms better reach our customers,” Walmart said in a statement. While Amazon only announced its pullout on Friday, Joe Benarroch, head […]

Israel and Hamas have agreed to extend a temporary truce for an additional two days as of Nov. 27, according to the government of Qatar, which has presented itself as a mediator in the conflict. “The State of Qatar announces, as part of the ongoing mediation, an agreement has been reached to extend the humanitarian […]

A judge in Nevada has struck down a petition from pro-abortion groups to place a question on the 2024 ballot aiming to make access to abortion a constitutional right across the battleground state. In an opinion handed down Tuesday, District Court Judge James Russell ruled that the proposed measure—which would amend the Nevada Constitution to […]

New York Governor Kathy Hochul said Tuesday that the state is planning to develop “media literacy tools” to teach K-12 students how to identify “conspiracy theories” and “misinformation” in the media and online. The plan is part of the Democrat governor’s new initiative to combat what she called the “ongoing rise in online hate speech” […]

The New York Supreme Court on Nov. 17 dismissed a lawsuit challenging the constitutionality of the isolation and quarantine procedures the state established during the COVID-19 pandemic, saying the Republican lawmakers and the advocacy group that brought the case lacked standing to sue. The suit was originally filed in April 2022 against Gov. Kathy Hochul […]

Jacob Chansley, the Arizona man who entered the halls of Congress shirtless while wearing patriotic face paint and horned fur headgear on Jan. 6, 2021, has filed paperwork to run for Congress as a Libertarian. According to the filings, Mr. Chansley is seeking to fill the seat currently held by Rep. Debbie Lesko (R-Ariz.), who […]

A seed producer has paid a $280,000 fine to the state of Arkansas for failing to report that the Chinese regime owns a stake in the company, Arkansas Attorney General Tim Griffin said on Thursday. Syngenta Seeds LLC, a Switzerland-headquartered producer of genetically modified crop seeds, owns about 160 acres of farmland in Arkansas’ Craighead […]

The Israeli government is demanding answers after a viral report alleged that Gaza-based photojournalists working for major news networks may have had prior knowledge of Hamas’s attacks in Israel and even possibly joined the terrorists in order to capture their carnage with a camera. In an article published Tuesday, New York City-based press watchdog Honest […]

Former President Donald Trump has declined the offer by Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelenskyy to visit his embattled country, saying that this would create a “conflict of interest” ahead of the 2024 presidential election. “I have great respect for President Zelenskyy, but think it would be inappropriate to go to Ukraine at this time,” the Republican […]

Pro-Palestinian demonstrators on Saturday night climbed the fence surrounding the White House and smeared red paint on a gate to the president’s residence as tens of thousands rallied in Washington against the Biden administration’s support for Israel. The demonstration, which attracted attendees from across the nation, started at 2 p.m. at the western end of […]

New York City has started giving out one-way airplane tickets to illegal immigrants who wish to leave, a move denounced by progressive politicians as “human trafficking” and “un-American” when carried out by Republican governors of border states on the frontlines of the illegal immigration crisis. The city, struggling to house and care for more than […]

NBC News will be hosting the third and final Republican presidential primary debate on Nov. 8, the network said Monday. The event will take place at Adrienne Arsht Center for the Performing Arts in Miami, Florida, starting at 8 p.m. Eastern Time and will last two hours. It will air on television, as well as […]

There has been an increase in reported domestic threats since Hamas terrorist group launched its unprecedented attack on Israel, according to FBI Director Christopher Wray. Mr. Wray said on a call with reporters on Sunday that the FBI is moving quickly to mitigate the threats and that it does not discount the possibility that Hamas […]

The State of Utah on Tuesday sued TikTok, accusing the social media company of intentionally fostering an “addictive and unhealthy” digital experience for its youngest users and fueling a mental health crisis. The lawsuit, filed in a Salt Lake City court, alleges the Chinese-owned company has been exploiting children into “checking and watching the app […]

Whoever succeeds Rep. Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) to hold the House speaker’s gavel should try doing away with the mechanism that allows a single member to force a no-confidence vote on the speaker, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) advised. “I have no advice to give to House Republicans except one: I hope whoever the next […]

In the aftermath of a short-term funding bill to keep the federal government open, Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-Fla.) said on Sunday he will file a motion to remove House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) from his post sometime this week. “We need to rip off the Bandaid. We need to move on with new leadership that […]

JPMorgan Chase has agreed to pay $75 million to the U.S. Virgin Islands (USVI) to resolve a lawsuit over the role the bank allegedly played in Jeffrey Epstein’s sex trafficking scheme. The settlement includes $30 million to support local charities, $25 million to strengthen law enforcement to combat human trafficking, and $20 million for attorney’s […]

Texas has expanded the scale of operations to transport illegal immigrants out of the state, adding two distressed border towns to the growing list of departure points for fleets of buses filled with illegal border-crossers. Texas Gov. Greg Abbott announced on Friday that he has directed the Texas Department of Emergency Management to deploy more […]

“Game of Thrones” and “Elden Ring” writer George R. R. Martin is joining a coalition of over a dozen authors to sue OpenAI in a bid to stop the ChatGPT developer from using their copyrighted books to train artificial intelligence (AI) models. Originally a non-profit AI research organization, OpenAI is now a Microsoft-backed, $30 million […]

As an influx of tens of thousands of illegal immigrants overwhelms New York City, New York Gov. Kathy Hochul is looking into an “unprecedented” option to provide the new arrivals with documents that would allow them to legally work in the state. On Tuesday afternoon, shortly before a discussion with state legislative leaders on the […]

New Mexico Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham’s order to suspend all forms of gun carry in and around the state’s largest city in the name of a “public health emergency” has already drawn multiple legal challenges. Citing the recent shooting deaths of three children, including an 11-year-old boy killed outside a minor league baseball park in […]

A Marine veteran turned high school football coach who fought and won a legal challenge over his First Amendment right to pray on the field that went to the Supreme Court has resigned after briefly returning to the game. Joe Kennedy, who had been serving as an assistant coach for the Bremerton High School in […]

Index fund giant Vanguard on Monday said it has narrowed support for shareholder resolutions on environmental, social, and governance (ESG) issues, backing only 2 percent of such proposals at company meetings across the United States during the 2023 proxy season. In a report on its most recent voting history, the $7.2 trillion asset manager said […]

Putting toddlers in front of a screen may delay their development in communication and problem-solving skills, a new study involving more than 7,000 children suggests. Spending anywhere between one and four hours of screen time per for children under one year old is linked to higher risks of delays in crucial skills, ranging from controlling […]

The College Board’s pilot Advanced Placement (AP) course on African American studies won’t be offered for high school students in Arkansas, the state’s education department has confirmed. The decision to remove the course from the state’s roster of offerings was shared with high school teachers on Aug. 11, the Friday just before the start of […]

Elon Musk said that his social media company X will pay the legal bills of users who have been mistreated by their employers for posting or engaging with content on the platform formerly known as Twitter. In an Aug. 5 post on X announcing the move, Mr. Musk pledged to support potential lawsuits regardless of […]

The Biden administration’s new light bulb rule came in full effect on Tuesday, marking another step toward limiting American households’ illuminating options to energy efficient, but more expensive, LED lights. Under a U.S. Department of Energy rule finalized last April, the new minimum standard for light bulbs is set at 45 lumens—a measure of brightness—per […]

The Biden administration, in its latest attempt to push car manufacturers towards transitioning to electric vehicles, is proposing higher fuel economy standards for gas-powered cars. The new Corporate Average Fuel Economy (CAFE) standards, unveiled on Friday by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA), mandate that all new vehicles sold in the United States meet […]

The U.S. Department of Education is taking up a civil rights complaint over Harvard University’s legacy admissions policies, a long-standing practice critics say is unfairly biased toward children of alumni and wealthy donors. The complaint was filed earlier this month by Lawyers for Civil Rights on behalf of several black and Hispanic activist groups in […]

As the Biden administration’s plan to erase more than $400 billion in federal student loan debt failed at the U.S. Supreme Court, both Democrats and Republicans are saying they have an answer to help with the looming student loan default crisis. To fulfill his campaign promise, President Joe Biden has pledged that he’ll still push […]

Americans planning to celebrate this Fourth of July with a cookout can expect to pay slightly less than they did last year, according to an annual survey by the American Farm Bureau Federation (AFBF), the nation’s largest general farm organization. According to this year’s estimate, families will pay on average $67.73 for groceries to feed […]

The legal fight over President Joe Biden’s proposal to “forgive” billions of dollars in federal student debt has finally been put to rest, along with all questions and confusion about when, or if at all, borrowers of student loans will have to start paying their debts again. Prior to Friday’s decision, the U.S. Supreme Court […]

Hunter Biden arrived at a Delaware courthouse on June 29 for a deposition as part of a civil defamation lawsuit brought by the owner of a computer repair shop where Biden abandoned his now infamous laptop. The computer repairman, John Paul Mac Isaac, sued Biden last year for $1.5 million in damages, alleging that his […]

The U.S. Department of Defense on June 20 said it has overcounted the value of the weapons it sent to Ukraine over the past two years by $6.2 billion. This error occurred because U.S. military officials didn’t count the actual value of what was pulled from the Pentagon’s weapons stockpile and sent to Ukraine but […]

Federal Reserve chairman Jerome Powell on Wednesday affirmed that more interest-rate hikes are on the way as inflation in the United States is still too high above the central bank’s target of 2 percent. “Nearly all” participants in the policy-making Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) “expect that it will be appropriate to raise interest rates […]

Three Chinese research centers, including the bat coronavirus-tinkering Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV), had been awarded more than $2 million in U.S. taxpayers’ money in the years leading to the COVID-19 pandemic, a new government report found. The report (pdf), released on June 14 by the nonpartisan Government Accountability Office (GAO), focuses on federal funds […]

A federal jury in New Jersey has awarded $25.6 million to a former Starbucks regional manager who accused the company of firing her as a racial scapegoat following the arrest of two black men at a Philadelphia store. Shannon Phillips, a white woman who had worked with Starbucks for 13 years, sued the coffee chain […]

Federal student loan payments have been on pause since March 2020. But soon that will change. The U.S. Department of Education, which oversees a $1.6 trillion portfolio in federal student loan debt owed by about 43 million Americans, has posted a notice at the top of its student aid website, confirming when borrowers should start […]

Former President Donald Trump has landed in Miami, Florida, where he will appear in federal court to be arraigned on charges related to his handling of classified documents after his first term in the White House. As the Republican 2024 frontrunner arrived at Miami International Airport on Monday afternoon, his supporters had already gathered nearby […]

In the wake of an ongoing customer backlash against Target, the retail chain’s longtime partnership with a national activist group that places LGBT-themed books in K-12 school libraries and encourages teachers to discuss sex and gender with children has gained renewed attention. Over the past decade, the New York City-based Gay, Lesbian and Straight Education […]

A federal appeals court has upheld the admissions policies at Virginia’s top public high school, ruling that the school district didn’t discriminate against students of Asian ethnicity by trying to reduce their presence in the student body. The decision, issued Tuesday by a panel of three judges on the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals […]

Montana has become the latest state to strictly define the terms “female” and “male” based on biology, under a new law signed last week by Republican Gov. Greg Gianforte. “In human beings, there are exactly two sexes, male and female, with two corresponding types of gametes,” states the law, previously known as Senate Bill 458. […]

The U.S. government will have to default on some payments if Congress fails to raise the national debt ceiling before June, Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen said. “If Congress fails to do that, it really impairs our credit rating. We have to default on some obligation, whether it’s Treasuries or payments to Social Security recipients,” Yellen […]

A shooting in the border town of Yuma, Arizona, on Saturday night left two people dead and five others injured, police said. The police responded to a report of shots fired, which came in at “approximately 10:54 p.m.” local time, Yuma police Sgt. Lori Franklin said on Facebook. When police officers arrived at the scene, […]

The Biden administration said on May 10 that it brought back a Trump-era immigration rule under which many people planning to illegally cross the southern border will be rendered ineligible for asylum. Under the finalized rule (pdf), migrants will be disqualified from applying for asylum in the United States if they didn’t first seek protection in […]

Twitter owner Elon Musk said the platform is permanently removing inactive accounts to release desirable usernames back into rotation, a move that had long been promised but never delivered. While Twitter does have an inactive account policy in place, it hasn’t done much to enforce it. The platform encourages users to log in at least […]

A new Republican-backed bill would authorize the Texas Secretary of State to rerun elections in the state’s most populous county if a ballot paper shortage occurs. The one-page legislation cleared the Texas Senate on Monday in a strictly party-line vote of 19–12. It would give the Secretary of State, a position appointed by the governor and […]

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved the first-ever respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) vaccine for use in adults aged 60 and over on Wednesday. The approval of its drug Arexvy is a major victory for British pharmaceutical giant GlaxoSmithKline (GSK), which has been rushing to get its RSV vaccine out to the market before […]

Florida’s Republican-led Legislature has approved a bill clarifying that Gov. Ron DeSantis may run for president in 2024 while keeping his current position. In a party-line vote of 76-34 on Friday, the Florida House approved an amended version of SB 7050, which includes a provision that explicitly exempts anyone running for president or vice president […]

The Texas Senate has passed a bill that would create a new crime for foreign nationals who enter the state illegally and authorize law enforcement to arrest any offender anywhere in the state. The bill, SB 2424, cleared the state Senate last week in an 18–12 party-line vote. It would create a new state-level criminal […]

The U.S. Supreme Court has put on hold a lower court’s order that suspends the federal approval of mifepristone, the nation’s most widely used abortion drug. In a brief order (pdf) issued Friday by Justice Samuel Alito, the high court halted the enforcement of a decision issued earlier this month by U.S. District Court Judge […]

Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Xavier Becerra said Sunday that the Biden administration is considering defying a conservative federal judge’s order that suspends the approval of mifepristone, the nation’s most widely used abortion drug. “We want the courts to overturn this reckless decision,” Becerra said on CNN’s “State of the Union” of the ruling […]

Saudi Arabia and other members of the oil-producing group OPEC+ announced Sunday that they will be cutting their output by about 1.15 million barrels per day (bpd), a move expected to cause an immediate rise in prices. According to its state news agency, Saudi Arabia will voluntarily cut its oil production by 500,000 bpd from […]

Harrowing recordings of 911 calls paint a disturbing picture of the distress and fear felt by those inside Nashville’s Covenant School on Monday as an attacker went on a killing spree that left six people dead. The audio of about two-dozen emergency calls, released Thursday by the Metro Nashville Police Department, unveiled more details about […]

Santa Fe District Attorney Mary Carmack-Altwies announced on Wednesday she will no longer handle the prosecution of Alec Baldwin for the fatal October 2021 shooting on the “Rust” movie set. The decision comes two weeks after New Mexico state Rep. Andrea Reeb, the special prosecutor in the “Rust” case, resigned on the premise that she […]

New York is reportedly close to passing the nation’s first legislative ban on gas stoves for most new construction, including single-family homes and commercial buildings. Amid a statewide uproar over the plan, the Democrat-led state legislature is set to advance it as part of Democratic Gov. Kathy Hochul’s $227 billion budget blueprint, which heavily focuses […]

Amazon on March 20 announced yet another round of layoffs, saying that it’s letting go of 9,000 employees or roughly 3 percent of its corporate workforce. In a blog post published on March 20, CEO Andy Jassy said the cuts will primarily affect those in Amazon’s cloud web services, the Twitch gaming division, advertising, and […]

A Miami hotel might be stripped of its alcohol license for hosting a Christmas-themed drag event despite a warning from the Florida government. In December 2022, the Florida Department of Business and Professional Regulation (DBPR) demanded that Hyatt Regency Miami prevent children from attending the sexually explicit show but the hotel did anyway, Florida Gov. […]