As Donald Trump sat with some of the country's top oil executives at his Mar-a-Lago Club last month, he vowed to immediately reverse dozens of President Biden's environmental rules and policies and stop new ones from being enacted with one caveat: Raise $1 billion to return me to the White House. Giving $1 billion would be a "deal," Trump said, because of the taxation and regulation they would avoid thanks to him. Read more
A recent study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences reveals that across all political and social groups in the United States, there is a strong preference against living near AR-15 rifle owners and neighbors who store guns outside of locked safes. This surprising consensus suggests that when it comes to immediate living environments, Americans' views on gun control may be less divided than the polarized national debate suggests.
College protests against Israel's war in Gaza are dominating headlines. But only a sliver of students are participating or view it as a top issue. This is the second poll where young people ranked the conflict in the Middle East as the least important issue facing them. Read more
A recent analysis of a sperm whale's vocalizations suggests variations in 'clicks' represent a kind of alphabet that forms the basis of a complex communication system. Read more
Long after midnight and well into the early hours of Thursday, Donald Trump went on a furious tirade aimed at former House Speaker Paul Ryan (R-WI), calling for him to be ousted from the board of the Fox Corporation. As the former president heads into another day of testimony in his Manhattan hush money trial, he was up late on Wednesday raging on his Truth Social platform at President Joe Biden and Ryan " in Ryan's case likely because the former GOP leader recently told voters to turn on Trump. In an interview on Tuesday, Ryan bluntly stated, "Character is too important to me. And it's a job that requires the kind of character that he just doesn't have."
Deputies responding to a disturbance call at a Florida apartment complex burst into the wrong unit and fatally shot a Black U.S. Air Force airman who was home alone when they saw he was armed with a gun, an attorney for the man's family said Wednesday. Senior Airman Roger Fortson, 23, who was based at the Special Operations Wing at Hurlburt Field, was in his off-base apartment in Fort Walton Beach when the shooting happened on May 3. Civil rights attorney Ben Crump said in a statement that Fortson was on a Facetime call with a woman at the time of the encounter.
Russia's fortress economy has proved remarkably resilient to an onslaught of Western sanctions. Two years after the Kremlin's invasion of Ukraine, it continues to fund a costly war and to prop up President Vladimir Putin. But there's at least one spot where the pain is very real.
Keeping CO2 levels low reduces infectious airborne viral loads, new research suggests. While the study focused on the pathogen behind COVID-19, it has clear implications for reducing the risk of transmitting viruses in spaces where ventilation is limited.
Conservative MP Natalie Elphicke has defected to the Labour Party, saying the Tories "have become a byword for incompetence and division".
It will soon be Barron Trump's time to step into the political spotlight. Trump, former President Donald Trump's youngest child, who will graduate from high school next week and has largely been kept out of the political spotlight, was picked by the Republican Party of Florida on Wednesday night as one of the state's at-large delegates to the Republican National Convention, according to a list of delegates obtained by NBC News.
"I do think people had too high hopes for these cases to take the place of grass-roots organization and self-education and voting rights and getting people to the polls and basically having a more fundamental and a real conversation about what we are facing now in under 200 days," said University of Baltimore law professor Kimberly Wehle, a former assistant U.S. attorney. "I just thought courts were the last thing standing." Read more
Conservative MP Natalie Elphicke has defected to the Labour Party, saying the Tories "have become a byword for incompetence and division".
A high-profile New York real estate lawyer, whose law license was once suspended, said he approached the judge presiding over Donald Trump's civil fraud case to offer unsolicited advice about a law at issue in the case. The judge, through a court spokesman, denied impropriety and said he was "wholly uninfluenced" by Mr. Bailey. New York's judicial oversight body has now launched an investigation into the alleged interaction, according to sources familiar with the matter.
"I love Heathrow. We take edibles, usually chocolate truffles with hash, and just have a good time soaking up the atmosphere."
Unassuming heroes emerge from the most unlikely of circumstances, their extraordinary courage and selflessness shining through when least anticipated.
The cost of extending the 2017 tax cuts enacted under President Donald Trump has expanded to $3.8 trillion over ten years, putting a massive price tag on what is likely to be a top issue in Washington next year, according to new estimates from Congress's fiscal scorekeeper.
