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Customers wait in line to check out purchases at Costco store on June 28, 2023 in Teterboro, New Jersey. (Kena Betancur/VIEWpress/Corbis via Getty Images) (NEW YORK) — When customers walk in to shop at Costco Wholesale, they flash a membership card to an employee who typically gives a smile and a nod before they can […]
Tatsiana Niamera / 500px/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — A new study suggests a popular artificial sweetener found in everything from drinks and baked goods to gum and candy could be linked to a higher risk of blood clots, but the researchers themselves say their findings are preliminary and more research is needed to understand any […]
Creativeye99/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — Special Counsel Jack Smith’s office requested a delay Thursday in responding to a scheduling order from the judge overseeing former President Donald Trump’s federal election subversion case, citing issues related to the Supreme Court’s decision that granted presidents immunity from prosecution for certain acts taken while in office. In a joint […]
ABC News (NEW YORK) — Tropical Storm Debby is slamming the Southeast with heavy rain after making landfall in Florida as a Category 1 hurricane on Monday. At least six people have been killed in Florida and Georgia. Here’s how the news is developing: Tornado watch extends in Washington-Baltimore area A Debby-related tornado watch has […]
Andrew Harnik/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — Republican JD Vance is alleging Democrat Tim Walz is guilty of “stolen valor” — an explosive allegation that supporters of Walz say goes too far. The allegation also has legal implications. It’s against federal law to lie about military service to try to defraud people. While there’s no evidence that […]
Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images (WILMINGTON, Del.) — Prosecutors in special counsel David Weiss’ office are accusing Hunter Biden of accepting payments from a Romanian businessman who was attempting to “influence U.S. government agencies,” while his father Joe Biden was vice president. If true, the allegation would mark the closest prosecutors have come to tying President Joe […]
Getty Images – STOCK/Dmitrii Marchenko (WASHINGTON) — As voters prepare to head to the polls in November, inflation, foreign policy and reproductive rights have dominated the national conversation, with environmental policy failing to emerge as a major ballot issue. But with climate change fueling more damaging and deadly weather events, experts question if the effects […]
ACLU of Virginia (LYNCHBURG, Va.) — A trans woman fired by Liberty University last year is speaking to ABC News about the recently filed lawsuit alleging the university let her go for being transgender. Ellenor Zinski was hired by the university to work at its IT Helpdesk in 2023. According to the complaint, her performance […]
Getty Images – STOCK/MoMo Productions (NEW YORK) — Lawmakers in a suburban New York county approved a bill to ban masks in public spaces, saying concealing your identity is a misdemeanor offense punishable by up to a year of jail time and a $1,000 fine. Proponents of the Mask Transparency Act in Nassau County, Long […]
Michael B. Thomas/Getty Images (ST. LOUIS.) — Progressives are on the short end of a spending war with pro-Israel and other establishment Democratic forces. And they know it. Missouri Democratic Rep. Cori Bush’s primary loss Tuesday at the hands of St. Louis County prosecutor Wesley Bell put into stark relief once again how progressive lawmakers […]