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Kazuhiro Nogi/ AFP via Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — U.S. Steel and Japan-based Nippon Steel sued the Biden administration on Monday over a decision made last week to block a merger between the two companies. A proposed $14 trillion acquisition of the second-largest domestic steel producer by Nippon would threaten U.S. national security, the Biden administration […]
Lena Klimkeit/picture alliance via Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — Congress is gathering for a joint session to certify the results of the 2024 election, the final step before President-elect Donald Trump’s inauguration on Jan. 20, after some major changes to security for the ceremony and the law that dictates how it’s carried out. Before 2021, the […]
Jon Cherry/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — Nearly 1,600 individuals have faced charges in the four years since a mob of President-elect Donald Trump’s supporters attacked the U.S. Capitol, according to figures released by the U.S. Attorney’s Office on Monday. But one of the largest investigations in the Department of Justice’s history now faces a future rife […]
Mario Tama/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — President Joe Biden is making a sweeping move to ban all future offshore oil and natural gas drilling on America’s East and West coasts, the Eastern Gulf of Mexico and Alaska’s North Bering Sea. “My decision reflects what coastal communities, businesses, and beachgoers have known for a long time: that […]
Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images (NEW ORLEANS) — President Joe Biden and first lady Jill Biden are scheduled to travel on Monday to New Orleans, where they’ll attend a prayer service for families of victims and impacted community members following the New Year’s Day attack in the city. The Biden are expected to arrive in New Orleans […]
ABC News (WASHINGTON) — In an interview Sunday morning on ABC’s “This Week,” Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas warned of a “very difficult threat landscape” in the wake of the New Orleans truck attack. “We have not only the persistent threat of foreign terrorism — that, of course, created the Department of Homeland Security — […]
Chris Graythen/Getty Images (NEW ORLEANS) — The New Orleans Saints and the NFL announced Saturday that they will donate $1 million to the victims of the New Year’s Day truck ramming attack on Bourbon Street that killed 14 people and injured dozens of others. “Our community has experienced an unimaginable tragedy and our collective hearts […]
People watch as the hearse carrying the flag-draped casket of former President Jimmy Carter departs Phoebe Sumter Medical Center on January 4, 2025 in Americus, Georgia. (Photo by Alex Brandon – Pool/Getty Images) (ATLANTA) — The emotional, week-long public goodbye to former President Jimmy Carter is underway. Carter’s body was transferred from his hometown of […]
People watch as the hearse carrying the flag-draped casket of former President Jimmy Carter departs Phoebe Sumter Medical Center on January 4, 2025 in Americus, Georgia. (Photo by Alex Brandon – Pool/Getty Images) (ATLANTA) — The emotional, week-long public goodbye to former President Jimmy Carter is underway. Carter’s body will be transferred from his hometown […]
Kyle Mazza/Anadolu via Getty Images (NEW ORLEANS) — Authorities investigating the suspect in the truck attack that killed 14 and injured dozens in New Orleans on New Year’s Day are probing when, where and how his alleged “radicalization” occurred, a local official said on Friday. Shamsud-Din Jabbar, a 42-year-old Army veteran and U.S.-born citizen from […]
