Matt Cardy/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — Are Facebook, Instagram and YouTube more like newspaper publishers or telephone companies? The Supreme Court on Monday was wrestling with that question in a pair of cases being called the most important tests of the First Amendment in the internet era. The justices’ answer couldRead More →
Alex Wong/Getty Images (EAGLE PASS, TEXAS) — President Joe Biden will make his second visit to the U.S.-Mexico border on Thursday to make another push for Congress to pass a bipartisan border deal, the White House announced Monday. Former President Donald Trump, the presumptive Republican nominee, will also deliver remarksRead More →
Lisette Morales McCabe/Bloomberg via Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — New home sales ticked up in January, despite a twin burden imposed by elevated mortgage rates and expensive housing prices, according to U.S. Census data released on Monday. Sales of new single-family homes rose 1.8% in January compared to the previous year,Read More →
Kent Nishimura/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Lawyers for former President Donald Trump and his co-defendants are appealing their $464 million civil fraud case. In a filing Monday, the defendants signaled their plans to appeal the ruling to New York’s Appellate Division, First Department. “This appeal is taken from each andRead More →
Douglas Sacha/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — An active-duty airman has died after authorities say he set himself on fire outside the Israeli Embassy in Washington, D.C. The man was identified by the Metropolitan Police Department as 25-year-old Aaron Bushnell of San Antonio. The incident unfolded just before 1 p.m. ET outsideRead More →
Republican presidential candidate, former U.N. Ambassador Nikki Haley delivers remarks at her primary-night rally at the Grappone Conference Center on January 23, 2024 in Concord, New Hampshire. — (Photo by Brandon Bell/Getty Images) (WASHINGTON) — Americans For Prosperity Action, an advocacy organization backed by billionaire Charles Koch and his networkRead More →
RNC Chairwoman Ronna McDaniel speaks at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Foundation & Institute’s ‘A Time for Choosing Speaker Series’ at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library on April 20, 2023 in Simi Valley, California. — (Photo by David McNew/Getty Images) (WASHINGTON) — After seven years at the helm of the GOP,Read More →
Douglas Sacha/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — A man identified by the Air Force as an active-duty airman was hospitalized in critical condition Sunday after authorities say he set himself on fire outside the Israeli Embassy in Washington, D.C. The incident unfolded just before 1 p.m. ET outside the gates of theRead More →
Inmate Leon Ruffin in a mugshot from the Jefferson Parish Sheriff’s Office (HARVEY, La.) — A convicted felon who had been in custody on a second-degree murder charge escaped on Sunday after pepper spraying his transporting deputy and stealing her car, authorities said. The inmate, Leon Ruffin, should be consideredRead More →
Julia Cherner/ABC News (WASHINGTON) — More than 2,000 people have served in the U.S. Senate since it was established in 1789. But just 12 have been Black — and only three have been Black women, none of whom have ever served together. That could soon change. Rep. Barbara Lee (D-Calif.),Read More →
