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kolderal/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — President Joe Biden on Tuesday lamented recent shootings and called for stricter gun reforms in a statement marking one year after the holiday parade mass shooting in Highland Park, Illinois. In the July 4 statement, Biden noted shootings in past days in Philadelphia, Fort Worth, Texas, Baltimore, Maryland, Lansing, Michigan, […]
Barry Winiker/Getty Images (WASHINGTON, D.C.) — Secret Service investigating suspected cocaine found inside White House complex The U.S. Secret Service on Tuesday said it was investigating an “unknown item” found inside the White House complex on Sunday that sources said was described in radio traffic as a cocaine-like substance. “On Sunday evening, the White House […]
Barry Winiker/Getty Images (WASHINGTON, D.C.) — The Secret Service on Tuesday said it was investigating an “unknown item” found inside the White House complex on Sunday and sources said it was described in radio traffic as a cocaine-like substance. “On Sunday evening, the White House complex went into a precautionary closure as officers from the […]
Photo by Mike Kline (notkalvin)/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — In the wake of the Supreme Court’s Friday ruling striking down the Biden administration’s student loan debt cancellation plan, Republicans are moving forward with their own proposed solution. Conservative lawmakers from both chambers, vocally opposed to the president’s landmark program, which they said was an overreach, celebrated […]
ABC News (WASHINGTON) — Former vice president and 2024 presidential hopeful Mike Pence on Sunday celebrated the Supreme Court’s landmark ruling that effectively ends affirmative action at U.S. colleges, telling ABC “This Week” co-anchor Jonathan Karl that while he thought there was once “a time” for the practice, “those days are over.” “I think there was […]
ABC News (WASHINGTON) — California Rep. Ro Khanna on Sunday praised President Joe Biden’s continued efforts to cancel federal student loan debt after the Supreme Court struck down his initial plan to forgive up to $20,000 for some borrowers. Biden said Friday that he will now rely on the 1965 Higher Education Act to try to […]
Celal Gunes/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — A majority of Americans approve of the Supreme Court ruling restricting the use of race as a factor in college admissions, though the country is more divided on other high-profile rulings and increasingly viewing the court as driven more by politics than the law, according to a new […]
Brandon Bell/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis’ presidential campaign last week went after Republican rival Donald Trump for the former president’s past support of the LGBTQ community — though the viral video drew viral backlash as well. The DeSantis campaign on Friday shared a video, now seen more than 18 million times, that labels […]
OLIVIER DOULIERY/AFP via Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Rep. George Santos of New York appeared briefly in federal court on Long Island Friday for what attorneys called a “basic status conference” as the criminal case against him moves forward. It was the first court appearance since the embattled Republican congressman pleading not guilty last month to […]
Catherine McQueen/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — LGBTQ+ advocates, and the dissenting Supreme Court judges, fear the recent Supreme Court ruling on free speech has opened the door to encourage discrimination. The Supreme Court ruled on Friday in favor of an evangelical Christian website designer in a case involving whether businesses can refuse to do services […]
