Kyle Mazza/Anadolu via Getty Images (BUTLER, P.A.) — Investigators working to determine a motive behind the attempted assassination of former President Donald Trump found a message posted to the gaming platform Steam that they believe was authored by the suspect, in which he said that “July 13 will be myRead More →
Stefani Reynolds/ Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — Massachusetts Air National Guardsman Jack Teixeira, who pleaded guilty to federal offenses for leaking sensitive information online, will now face a military court-martial, according to the U.S. Air Force. No trial date has been set yet for the military legal proceedings, which will takeRead More →
Al Drago/Bloomberg via Getty Images (MILWAUKEE, W.I.) — Former President Donald Trump will formally accept the GOP presidential nomination Thursday night and deliver his first speech since Saturday’s assassination attempt, capping off an ebullient Republican convention at a time of heightened political uncertainty. Trump will give the keynote remarks atRead More →
Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — In the tumultuous weeks since President Joe Biden’s faltering debate performance, the 81-year-old commander-in-chief has resisted calls from within his own party to end his reelection campaign, often relying on assurances from his medical staff to rebuff those who question his fitness for office. ThisRead More →
Eva Marie Uzcategui/Bloomberg via Getty Images (MILWAUKEE, W.I. ) — Speakers at the Republican National Convention this week have faulted the Biden administration for putting the nation at risk from threats that include criminals, illicit drugs — and high prices. “American families have been crushed by inflation,” Michigan Senate candidateRead More →
Yuri Gripas/Abaca/Bloomberg via Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — President Joe Biden said in an interview airing on Wednesday that, should his doctors tell him he had a “medical condition,” he would consider leaving office and turning over power to Vice President Kamala Harris in a second term. It is his latestRead More →
Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images (MILWAUKEE, W.I.) — Ohio Sen. J.D. Vance’s opposition to more U.S. aid for Ukraine is stoking anxiety among Kyiv’s supporters about sustained U.S. support and Ukraine’s ability to fend off Vladimir Putin’s invasion. “I do not think that it is in America’s interest to continue to fundRead More →
Al Drago/Bloomberg via Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — Special counsel Jack Smith on Wednesday filed an official notice of appeal of Judge Aileen Cannon’s order dismissing former President Donald Trump’s classified documents case. Judge Cannon, in a surprising ruling Monday, dismissed the case on the grounds that Smith’s appointment as specialRead More →
Mare Island Navy Yard (WASHINGTON) — The U.S. Navy has exonerated 256 Black sailors who were unjustly court-martialed in 1944 following the Port Chicago explosion in California that killed 320 people. The sailors had been punished for refusing to go back to work in what they considered to be anRead More →
Lev Radin/Pacific Press/LightRocket via Getty Images (NEW YORK) — A nearly complete stegosaurus skeleton sold at a Sotheby’s auction in New York on Wednesday for a record $44.6 million — the most ever paid for a fossil. The dinosaur, nicknamed “Apex” — which lived between 146 and 161 million yearsRead More →
