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Michelle Farsi/Zuffa LLC (WASHINGTON) — President Donald Trump met with advisers in the Situation Room on Tuesday afternoon, a White House official confirmed, as Israel and Iran continue to trade strikes. The meeting came some nine hours after Trump arrived back at the White House after abruptly leaving the G7 summit in Canada early, citing […]
An exterior view of Manhattan Criminal Court on December 23, 2024 in New York City. Adam Gray/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — The man who allegedly stabbed two court security officers as they screened people at the metal detectors at the Manhattan criminal courthouse was carrying out a “planned and calculated attack” that would have been worse had […]
Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images, FILE (WASHINGTON) — As Israel and Iran continue to trade strikes in the Middle East, lawmakers are set to introduce bills and resolution aimed at preventing the United States from getting involved in Israel’s military campaign against Iran. While the efforts are in their early stages, the legislation is unlikely to garner sufficient support […]
Douglas Sacha/Getty Images (WHEELING, W.Va.) — The death toll has climbed to seven in the wake of heavy rains and devastating flash flooding in West Virginia, Gov. Patrick Morrisey said on Tuesday, as he warned the threat isn’t over. “Flood watches continue throughout West Virginia,” Morrisey said on social media. “With the ground already saturated, […]
David McNew/Getty Images (LOS ANGELES) — The legal battle over the Trump administration’s deployment of the National Guard in California continued in a federal appeals court on Tuesday. The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals presided over a remote hearing regarding California’s challenge to President Donald Trump‘s federalization of the state’s National Guard troops amid protests over immigration enforcement […]
Megan Jelinger/AFP via Getty Images, FILE (OHIO) — Republican lawmakers in Ohio are planning on introducing a bill on Wednesday that would ban almost all abortions and criminalize the procedure. The “Ohio Prenatal Equal Protection Act” would overturn the amendment to the Ohio constitution, voted on in 2023, that establishes “an individual right to one’s […]
Kyic Oleksandr Gusev/Global Images Ukraine via Getty Images (KYIV, Ukraine) — Massive overnight Russian strikes on Kyiv killed 15 people, Ukrainian officials said, as Moscow launched hundreds of drones and missiles at targets across the country. The strikes wounded at least 177 others in the Ukrainian capital, according to officials. A United States citizen was […]
Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — Republican Sen. Mike Lee deleted his controversial social media posts about the assassination of a Minnesota lawmaker and her husband after several people criticized the Utah Republican for his comments. On Sunday night — a day after a masked gunman disguised as a police officer shot and killed Democratic State Rep. Melissa […]
Steven Garcia/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — Senators received a security briefing from U.S. Capitol Police and the Senate Sergeant at Arms on Tuesday following the shooting of Democratic lawmakers in Minnesota that some senators called “troubling” and “disturbing.” The briefing focused on member safety after it came to light that a number of members of Congress […]
Luke Johnson / Los Angeles Times via Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — California Democratic Sen. Alex Padilla became emotional as he spoke on the Senate floor about being forcibly removed from Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem’s news conference last week in Los Angeles. “If you watch what unfolded last week and that what happened is just […]
