Giles Clarke/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — The U.S. Supreme Court has denied Idaho serial killer Thomas Eugene Creech’s last-minute request for a stay of execution. Associate Justice Elena Kagan issued the decision to deny Creech’s request Wednesday morning, clearing the way for prison authorities to carry out his execution by lethalRead More →

Win McNamee/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — Lawyers for former President Donald Trump are seeking to pause the enforcement of the penalties in his civil fraud trial, telling the court that he intends to post a bond of only $100 million — well short of the $464 million judgement ordered by ManhattanRead More →

Peter Zay/Anadolu via Getty Images (NEW YORK) — At least nine tornadoes were reported across Illinois, Michigan and Ohio as a storm barreled through the Midwest overnight. Wind gusts reached 82 mph near Chicago, and hail was larger than golf balls in DuPage County, Illinois, just outside of Chicago. 2024Read More →

Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — President Joe Biden will undergo his yearly physical Wednesday morning at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center in what could be the final health update before the November election. Biden, 81, last received his physical on Feb. 16, 2023. Results have been released on theRead More →

Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — Senate Democrats on Wednesday aim to force Republicans to take a public stand in the controversy over in vitro fertilization by requiring them to either support or oppose legislation led by Sen. Tammy Duckworth — a measure that would establish a statutory right to accessRead More →

Leigh Vogel/UPI/Bloomberg via Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — Vice President Kamala Harris on Tuesday assembled voting rights leaders to reiterate the White House’s support for the issue as she has taken a public role in advocating for several Democratic priorities — on ballot access as well as abortion rights. For theRead More →

Rudy Sulgan via Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — Congress is scrambling to lock in a plan to keep several key government agencies funded before a Friday deadline — or risk a partial government shutdown that, among having other impacts, could eventually affect food assistance for millions. Funding for the agencies —Read More →

Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — President Joe Biden handily won the Michigan primary Tuesday night, but still faced protest votes over his handling of the war in Gaza. Critics of the president have protested the Israel-Hamas war across the state, which is home to a large Arab American population. However,Read More →

Andrew Lichtenstein/Corbis via Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Just days after the untimely death of Flaco, the Eurasian eagle owl who became world famous after escaping from his vandalized enclosure at New York City’s Central Park Zoo, fans and politicians are proposing ideas to preserve his legacy, including erecting aRead More →

Jeremy Hogan/Getty Images (NASHVILLE, Tenn.) — The Covenant School, which was the site of a 2023 mass shooting, received a bomb threat on Monday, according to a Nashville Police Department spokesperson. “Yesterday an employee of Covenant School received an emailed bomb threat. We cleared the site, with assistance from aRead More →