Joe Raedle/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Donald Trump, in his third run for the White House, has made “retribution” central to his agenda if elected. “For hard-working Americans, Nov. 5 will be our new Liberation Day,” Trump said as he headlined this year’s Conservative Political Action Conference. “But for theRead More →

ABC News (FORT WORTH, Texas) — Opal Lee was only 12 years old when a racist white mob stormed and set fire to her home on 940 East Annie Street in Fort Worth, Texas. The violence raged on June 19, 1939 — the date now known as “Juneteenth,” the annualRead More →

Robert Nickelsberg/Getty Images (AUSTIN, Texas) — The Texas Medical Board released guidance on what qualifies for an exception to the state’s multiple abortion bans, weighing in on how physicians can provide care in medical emergencies. While the board voted to publish the guidance publicly, they will vote on adopting theRead More →

Getty Images – STOCK (CAMEL VALLEY, Calif.) — A 30-year-old woman who went on a day-trip hike in coastal California has now been missing for four days, according to authorities. Search and rescue teams are scouring the trails around the Tassajara Zen Mountain Center for Caroline Meister, the Monterey CountyRead More →

Win McNamee/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — Georgia Republican Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene on Friday filed a motion to vacate the speaker’s chair, threatening to oust Speaker Mike Johnson just months after he ascended to the speakership. “I filed the motion to vacate today, but it’s more of a warning and aRead More →

Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — The House passed a $1.2 trillion government funding package, the first in a series of steps that need to be taken to avert a partial government shutdown before a deadline at midnight Friday. The bills passed in a 286-134 vote despite pushback from far-right membersRead More →

Spencer Platt/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — In his State of the Union address this month, President Joe Biden boasted that the nation reported a historically low murder rate in 2023 and violent crime had plummeted to one of the lowest levels in 50 years. For some Americans, however, the perception ofRead More →

Joe Raedle/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — Donald Trump’s social media company Truth Social completed a merger Friday morning that could net the former president over $3 billion. Shareholders of Digital World Acquisition Corporation — a special purpose acquisition company — approved a merger with Trump Media & Technology Group, which ownsRead More →

Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Mega Million’s jackpot has surged to $977 million after no winners were selected in Tuesday night’s drawing. The next drawing is Friday night at 11 p.m. The numbers drawn Saturday night were: 24, 46, 49, 62 and 66 and gold Mega Ball 7. ThereRead More →

Smithsonian Institution (NEW YORK) — Scientists have discovered a new ancient amphibian species that could bridge the gap in understanding how modern-day frogs and salamanders developed. The fossilized skull of the 270-million-year-old amphibian ancestor was first unearthed in 1984 in a rock formation in Texas. However, it spent decades sittingRead More →