Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) said the House will vote on a resolution to remove Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) from the House Foreign Affairs Committee on Thursday, one day after a second Republican holdout — Rep. Ken Buck (Colo.) — revealed that he would back the congresswoman’s ouster. McCarthy’s announcement of a Thursday vote came shortly after...
The Earth may lose some 10 percent of its animals and plants by 2050 and about27 percent by the end of the century, a new study has found. Using one of Europe’s most powerful supercomputers, scientists created a synthetic Earth replete with virtual species and 15,000 food webs to predict how plants and animals will...
One Minnesota woman was able to capture the rare phenomenon of thundersnow on camera. Who knew that was a thing? Today in health, the CDC released new research findings linking thousands of deaths to long COVID, highlighting the potential severity of the post-COVID condition that is still not well understood. Welcome to Overnight Health Care, where we’re...
For years, Republicans refrained from criticizing McCarthy for fear of alienating their most loyal supporters.
The House committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021 attack on the Capitol will release its list of criminal referrals alongside its final report on Dec. 21, the panel’s chair told reporters Thursday. “We will make that announcement on the 21st when we release the report,” said Chair Bennie Thompson (D-Miss.). The panel is meeting this...
The top Democrat and Republican on the Senate Banking Committee have threatened to subpoena FTX CEO Sam Bankman-Fried if he doesn’t agree to testify during a hearing on the cryptocurrency firm’s collapse scheduled for next week. In a Wednesday letter, Senate Banking Committee Chairman Sherrod Brown (D-Ohio) warned Bankman-Fried he may be forced to testify...
The U.S. has seen more than 600 mass shootings for three straight years. According to the nonprofit Gun Violence Archive, there have been 609 incidents in 2022 in which four or more people, other than the attacker, were shot — putting the U.S. on pace to reach around 675 by the end of the year....
Donald Trump's legal team is asking a judge to force the Justice Department to turn over a fully unredacted copy of the FBI affidavit used to secure a warrant to search the former president’s Mar-a-Lago property. In court filings Tuesday, Trump turned to the same judge who appointed a special master to review the documents...
A 10-year-old Ghanian activist received a standing ovation at the U.N. climate conference (COP27) on Friday as she called upon world leaders to “have a heart and do the math” to solve the climate crisis. Nakeeyat Dramani Sam addressed the global climate change conference after the summit’s president, Sameh Shoukry, asked if anyone wished to make a...
Rep. Doug Lamborn (R-Colo.) on Tuesday raised concerns that the United States is falling behind adversaries China and Russia in manufacturing and testing hypersonic missiles. “As a country, we are behind China, and even Russia for that matter, and this is not a good situation,” Lamborn said, adding hypersonics are “a whole new type of...
President Biden's approval rating is at its highest point since June, a new Reuters/Ipsos opinion poll found. The two-day poll, completed Tuesday, shows Biden's rating at 41 percent — the first time it has topped 40 percent since the beginning of the summer. Of the 1,005 adults surveyed, 78 percent of Democrats voiced support for...
Records the FBI searched for at former President Trump’s Mar-a-Lago property included classified documents related to nuclear weapons, The Washington Post reported Thursday. Sources familiar with the investigation told the Post that those documents were among those the FBI sought on Monday, when the bureau executed a search warrant at Trump's Palm Beach, Fla., residence. The...
While McConnell would like to be remembered for transforming the federal judiciary, his enduring legacy will be the damage he has done to the institutions of government.
Two recent controversies are exposing the way the political ground is shifting around Latino voters. The change isn’t yet catastrophic for Democrats. But it’s giving them cause for alarm. In short, expectations that Latino voters would be a solid Democratic bloc in perpetuity, buoying the party's fortunes as the nation becomes ever more diverse, have...
ATLANTA (AP) — The Georgia prosecutor who's investigating whether former President Donald Trump and others illegally interfered in the 2020 general election in the state has informed 16 Republicans who served as fake electors that they could face criminal charges. They all signed a certificate declaring falsely that then-President Trump had won the 2020 presidential election and...
A former Trump campaign operative delivered lists of false electors on Jan. 6, 2021, to Capitol Hill in an effort to get them to former Vice President Mike Pence who was presiding over the Senate that day, two people familiar with the matter told Politico. The sources told Politico Friday that Mike Roman, who served...
The Jan. 6 House committee witness who President Trump allegedly tried to call after a recent hearing was a member of the White House support staff, CNN and NBC reported Wednesday night. Citing two sources familiar with the matter, CNN reported that Trump made the call after the committee heard public testimony by Cassidy Hutchinson,...
Two-thirds of Americans support “stricter gun control laws” in the country, according to a new poll released just days after President Biden signed bipartisan gun safety legislation in the wake of several high-profile mass shootings. The Politico-Morning Consult poll out on Wednesday showed 66 percent of respondents back stricter laws compared to 30 percent who...
Two-thirds of Americans say they think that former President Trump should be prosecuted for his efforts to overturn the 2020 election, according to a new poll. A Politico-Morning Consult poll released on Wednesday asked respondents if they believed Trump’s efforts to overturn the last presidential election’s results was a crime and that he should face...
Trump’s promotion of conspiracy theories is reminiscent of the late Robert Welch, who founded the John Birch Society in 1958.