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Alex Wong/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — Facing angry lawmakers for the first time since his cancer diagnosis, Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin testified Thursday that he takes “full responsibility” for keeping the White House in the dark when he underwent surgery and later when he was admitted to the intensive care unit after suffering complications. “Again, we […]
David Peinado/Anadolu via Getty Images (AUSTIN, Texas) — A federal judge granted a preliminary injunction Thursday to temporarily prevent one of the strictest immigration bills in the country from going into effect in Texas on March 5. The law, known as SB 4, would authorize local and state law enforcement to arrest migrants they suspect […]
George Rose/Getty Images (LOS ANGELES) — The effects of the El Niño event currently bringing extreme moisture to the southwestern U.S. are expected to linger for months, with record heat recorded all over the world, scientists say. Several regions around the planet are expected to experience record-breaking average surface air temperatures through the summer as […]
WABC House Republicans on Thursday will demand to know whose decision it was to keep Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin’s hospital stays a secret from the White House and Congress. In a hearing before the GOP-led House Armed Services Committee, Austin has been called to testify for the first time since undergoing surgery for prostate cancer […]
Courtesy Jay Artis-Wright In the four years since schools were shuttered in an effort to protect students from the onset of COVID-19, public education has been placed under a microscope and turned into a major political talking point. Conservatives, led by political figures like Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis and groups like Moms for Liberty, have […]
ABC News Several large wildfires continue to tear through northern Texas, including one that has grown into the second-largest blaze in state history. The Smokehouse Creek Fire that ignited in Hutchinson County remained active as of Wednesday night, having burned an estimated 850,000 acres and was just 3% contained, according to the Texas A&M Forest […]
Annabelle Gordon/Bloomberg via Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — With Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell announcing Wednesday his plans to relinquish his leadership role in November, speculation is swirling about what will happen next and who might fill his shoes. McConnell will be leaving a post he’s held for about 17 years. And while his announcement Wednesday […]
WFTV At least one person is dead and several others have been injured following a shooting in Orlando, Florida, police said. At approximately 11 p.m., officers from the Orlando Police Department responded to the area of Iron Wedge Drive and South Lake Orlando in reference to several shots fired and, upon arrival, located multiple victims, […]
Joe Sohm/Visions of America/Universal Images Group via Getty Images (MONTGOMERY, Ala.) — Alabama lawmakers held a hearing Tuesday to begin debate over two bills that would add protections for in vitro fertilization treatment, allowing physicians to continue providing care a week after a state Supreme Court decision that said embryos should be considered children halted […]
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. 2024 off to a somewhat decadent […]
