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Scott Olson/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — Donald Trump is raising new alarms about what he would do if he makes it back to the White House, even referring to himself in an interview Tuesday night as a “dictator,” but only, he said, on “Day One.” At a town hall in Iowa with Fox News host Sean […]
Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — In the face of bipartisan backlash, Harvard University’s president on Wednesday tried to clarify answers she gave during a congressional hearing on Tuesday when asked how she would respond to calls for the “genocide of Jews.” Claudine Gay, one of three university presidents grilled before the House Education Committee over […]
NurPhoto via Getty Images, FILE (WASHINGTON) — The U.S. military is grounding all of its Osprey V-22 aircraft in the wake of last week’s deadly U.S. Air Force crash off the coast of Japan that left eight airmen dead. The coordinated announcement means that all versions of the Osprey flown by the Marine Corps, Air […]
Micah Green/Bloomberg via Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — Entrepreneur and Republican presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy shared multiple conspiratorial or controversial claims at Wednesday night’s debate, amplifying them to a new level of prominence in the 2024 race. Ramaswamy touted himself as an outsider willing to speak “truth” on stage. But most of his assertions on hot-button […]
avid_creative/Getty Images (LAS VEGAS) — University of Nevada, Las Vegas senior Mike Henderson had just left his classroom in Beam Hall and was in a hallway when he heard about eight gunshots on Wednesday. “An alert came to my phone from UNLV [saying], ‘Shots fired — run, hide, fight,’” Henderson said, and that’s when he […]

Image Source/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — An off-duty pilot who admitted to taking psychedelic mushrooms two days before he was accused of trying to shut down the engines of an Alaska Airlines jet in mid-flight from a cockpit jumpseat pleaded not guilty Thursday to 84 charges stemming from the attempted sabotage. Joseph David Emerson was […]
Haiyun Jiang/Bloomberg via Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — The House on Wednesday advanced a Republican resolution to censure Democrat Rep. Jamaal Bowman for pulling a fire alarm, teeing up a final vote on Thursday. A Democratic motion to table the censure resolution failed by a vote of 201-216. Bowman has admitted pulling a fire alarm before […]
Oliver Helbig/Getty Images (LAS VEGAS) — Three faculty members were killed and one faculty member was injured in a mass shooting at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas on Wednesday. The suspect — who had applied for a college professorship at UNLV, but was not hired, according to sources — died at the scene following […]
ABC News (GALLUP, N.M.) — Just miles from the site of the 1979 Church Rock Mill spill, the largest nuclear disaster in American history, uranium extraction operations could resume near the Navajo Nation. Now, Navajo leaders say the health and prosperity of their community could be in even further jeopardy. A Canadian company is working […]
SimpleImages/Getty Images (DENVER) — The Colorado Supreme Court heard oral arguments Wednesday in the historic challenge to Trump’s ballot eligibility in Colorado under Section 3 of the 14th Amendment. During the two-hour hearing in Denver, the seven-justice court posed sharp questions central to the case, including on the definition of insurrection; whether the Capitol riot […]