George Doyle/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration has issued its highest-on record May hurricane forecast for the upcoming hurricane season. All categories of storms are expected to exceed the typical number seen every year, National Weather Service forecasters announced Thursday in a news conference forRead More →
Joe Raedle/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — NASA announced the new target launch date for the first astronaut-crewed flight into space aboard Boeing’s Starliner after several delays. The first flight will attempt to launch on Saturday, June 1, at 12:25 p.m. ET, with backup dates set for June 2, June 5Read More →
SimpleImages/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Former President Donald Trump is on trial in New York City, where he is facing felony charges related to a 2016 hush money payment to adult film actress Stormy Daniels. It marks the first time in history that a former U.S. president has been triedRead More →
Tim Graham/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — The GOP-led House Education Committee on Thursday called on more university leaders to defend their handling of pro-Palestinian protests and respond to allegations of antisemitism on campus. Leaders from Northwestern, Rutgers and UCLA testified as the committee’s main witnesses, joining the presidents of Harvard University,Read More →
Grant Faint/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — The U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday upheld a newly-drawn South Carolina congressional district, reversing a lower court decision that had struck it down as product of unconstitutional racial gerrymandering. Justice Samuel Alito, writing for the court in a 6-3 ruling from which the liberal justicesRead More →
J.Castro/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — The Senate will vote Thursday for the second time in three months on a border security measure negotiated earlier this year by a bipartisan group of senators after Republicans blocked the bill from advancing earlier this year at the direction of former President Donald Trump. BothRead More →
Sen. Rick Scott speaks during a news conference at the Capitol, April 16, 2024. (Tierney L. Cross/Bloomberg via Getty Images) (WASHINGTON) — Sen. Rick Scott has officially thrown his hat in the ring to become the next Senate Republican leader. Scott announced his plans to seek the top party leadershipRead More →
Bloomberg Creative Photos/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — He said he would do it in his first term. Now, with immigration a top issue for voters in November, Donald Trump says, if elected again, he’s determined to carry out his threat: to round up and deport millions of migrants living in theRead More →
john finney photography/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Wednesday was another day of severe weather across the country with more than 200 severe storm reports from New York to Texas. Wednesday’s severe weather included three reported tornadoes in Texas, with some of the worst damage in Bell County between Austin andRead More →
CBP (NEW YORK) — U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers in California have discovered more than 1,400 packages of methamphetamine worth over $18 million inside a shipment of squash, officials said. The discovery happened early Monday morning at approximately 6:47 a.m. when CBP officers working at the Otay Mesa CommercialRead More →
