SimpleImages/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — Maine’s Supreme Court has dismissed an appeal from Secretary of State Shenna Bellows, who requested last week for the high court to consider her earlier decision to bar former President Donald Trump from the state’s primary ballot under the 14th Amendment. Maine’s top trial court hadRead More →
President Joe Biden delivers his State of the Union address, Tuesday, Feb. 7, 2023, on the House floor of the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C. (Official White House Photo by Adam Schultz) (WASHINGTON) — President Joe Biden invited Kate Cox, the Texas woman who was denied an emergency abortion byRead More →
EllenMoran/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — The Federal Aviation Administration released final instructions to airlines to begin conducting inspections of their 737 Max 9 planes Wednesday — a move that will eventually allow them to fly again. The agency had grounded nearly 200 of the planes after an Alaska Airlines flightRead More →
Joliet Police Department (JOLIET, Ill.) — Police in Joliet, Illinois, arrested Kyleigh Cleveland-Singleton, 21, who they identified as the girlfriend of shooting suspect Romeo Nance, for obstructing justice. Police said she made statements to detectives on Jan. 22 to “prevent the apprehension of the suspect and obstruct this investigation.” Nance,Read More →
Philadelphia Police Department (PHILADELPHIA) — Philadelphia police are on a manhunt for a teenage murder suspect who escaped from a hospital Wednesday and is “considered dangerous,” the department announced. Authorities identified the escaped prisoner as 17-year-old Shane Pryor, who was being held on murder charges, Deputy Commissioner of Investigations FrankRead More →
Klaus Vedfelt/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — The Florida Board of Governors voted Wednesday to prohibit state funding to be used toward Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) initiatives, including “political or social activism” activities on campus in a 15-2 vote. The regulation prohibits state universities from using state or federal fundsRead More →
Mark Chivers/Getty Images (MOREHEAD CITY, N.C.) — Dozens of cold-stunned sea turtles were rescued by researchers off the coast of North Carolina this week. The North Carolina State University Center for Marine Sciences and Technology said it saved 36 cold-stunned sea turtles from Cape Lookout. While they took in 109 cold-stunnedRead More →
Jamie Kelter Davis/Bloomberg via Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — President Joe Biden received a key 2024 endorsement on Wednesday from the United Auto Workers, with the union’s president using the occasion to savage Biden’s likely general election opponent, Donald Trump. Shawn Fain announced UAW’s support for Biden’s reelection bid at their biannualRead More →
Al Drago/Bloomberg via Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — “I don’t get too angry, I get even,” former President Donald Trump sniped on Tuesday night during his New Hampshire victory speech shortly after his former U.N Ambassador Nikki Haley, whom he’d just beaten by double digits, vowed to fight on against him forRead More →
Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — Former Trump White House adviser Peter Navarro will be sentenced on Thursday for defying a congressional subpoena to cooperate with the House select committee that investigated the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol. Navarro was convicted in September on one count of contempt of CongressRead More →
