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Spencer Platt/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Donald Trump’s defamation damages trial is scheduled to resume Thursday after a two-day postponement stemming from a courtroom COVID-19 scare. At issue is whether the former president has to pay writer E. Jean Carroll additional damages for defaming her in 2019 when he denied her allegations of sexual abuse. Originally […]
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 biannual conference in Washington, D.C. “I […]
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 Congress over his refusal to appear […]
George Rose/Getty Images (BEATTY, Nev.) — The remnants of an ancient lake are still visible in Death Valley National Park after an inundation of rain last year left a significant amount of water in the famed Badwater Basin. On Aug. 20, heavy precipitation from Hurricane Hilary — an event that prompted the first-ever tropical storm watch […]
Joshua Roberts/Bloomberg via Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — Texas Sen. John Cornyn, considered a top contender to succeed Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, joined over half of Republicans in the chamber in endorsing Trump following the former president’s victory over Nikki Haley in Tuesday’s New Hampshire primary. In a reversal, Cornyn in a statement on X called […]
Maddie McGarvey/For The Washington Post via Getty Images (COLUMBUS, Ohio) — The Ohio Senate has voted to override Gov. Mike DeWine’s veto against Ohio House Bill 68 in a 23-9 vote. This bill would ban transgender minors from receiving gender-affirming medical care and prevent transgender girls from taking part in girls’ and women’s sports. The […]
Photography by Keith Getter (all rights reserved)/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Thirty-five million Americans are under flood watches as states from Texas to the Northeast face heavy rain and potential flooding. In the Northeast, flood watches were prompted Wednesday by the combination of rain and warming temperatures melting the snow on the ground. Icy conditions […]
Photo by Mike Kline (notkalvin)/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — The reopened House ethics probe into Rep. Matt Gaetz continues to ramp up, as the committee in recent weeks has contacted multiple new witnesses as part of its ongoing investigation into the Florida congressman, sources tell ABC News. In recent days, the Republican-led House Ethics Committee has […]
Normand Blouin / EyeEm/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — After a barrage of icy storms, strong winds and record-breaking freezes, Americans living in southern states are now battling one of weather’s most dangerous side effects — bursting pipes. Residents in Tennessee and Mississippi were placed under water advisory notices and had limited access to clean, running […]
Oliver Helbig/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — An Amish family had their horse and buggy stolen while they shopped at a Michigan Walmart, police say. The theft took place on Saturday at approximately 5:30 p.m. in the town of Sturgis, Michigan – some 95 miles south of Grand Rapids near the Indiana border – when the […]
