An American pastor jailed in China for more than 18 years was released this week, the State Department said on Monday. David Lin, 68, was arrested in China in 2006 and sentenced to life in prison. He was convicted of contract fraud, but a humanitarian group said he was
Academic and activist Cornel West, who is running for president as an independent candidate, won't be on the ballot in Pennsylvania, the state Supreme Court decided on Monday in upholding a lower court's ruling. West, 71, was fighting to get his name added to the candidate
Amazon will require workers to return to the office five days a week starting next year, marking the company’s latest shift in its in-office working policy following the pandemic. In a memo on Monday, Amazon CEO Andy Jassy informed employees they will soon be required to come
Whatever one thinks of the war in Gaza, divestment should be avoided because it violates institutional neutrality and thereby damages the college or university as an institution.
Sen. Ed Markey (D-Mass.) and Rep. Jared Huffman (D-Calif.) led a letter from more than 50 congressional Democrats calling on the Interior Department to expand federal protections in the Arctic. The Interior Department in July solicited comments on whether further protections
Vice President Harris joined the International Brotherhood of Teamsters for a roundtable Monday, as anticipation swirls around whom the union will endorse in the presidential race. Teamsters General President Sean O’Brien told reporters they discussed the Protecting the Right
The suspect in an apparent attempted assassination of former President Trump has long had run-ins with the law, court records show, a history that could be a factor as he stares down federal charges. Ryan Wesley Routh, 58, was charged Monday with two gun crimes after
The NPD breach was one of the largest on record. It will not be the last.
The Florida sheriff whose deputies arrested the suspect in the second apparent assassination attempt against former President Trump said investigators were looking into whether the man was part of a broader conspiracy. “I think what we're finding out — he's not from this area.
Phone records place the suspect in Sunday's apparent assassination attempt on former President Trump near the scene almost 12 hours ahead of the incident at Trump International Golf Club West Palm Beach in Florida. Ryan Wesley Routh, the 58-year-old suspect, left a digital
Ukrainian military units are denying links to Ryan Wesley Routh, the man arrested in an apparent assassination attempt against former President Trump. The International Legion of Defense Intelligence of Ukraine, part of Ukraine’s Main Intelligence Directorate under the Ministry
Donald Trump’s and J.D. Vance’s lies about Haitian immigrants have continued to create chaos in the city of Springfield, Ohio. Two elementary schools in Springfield were evacuated Monday morning in response to bomb threats. Simon Kenton Elementary School and Kenwood Elementary
In Donald Trump’s first interview following the apparent attempt on his life on Sunday, he blamed the incident on his political rivals, telling Fox News that the would-be assassin “believed” and “acted on” the rhetoric of Joe Biden and Kamala Harris. “Their rhetoric is causing
Hyphenated adjectives, “word salad” and “policy” have become terms of division and dissension and not unity.
A super PAC with a singular “mission” to help Democrats “win Senate races.” The post Senate Majority PAC appeared first on FactCheck.org .
So far this wildfire season, aerial firefighting activities have faced the persistent nuisance of 21 "public drone incursions," the National Interagency Fire Center reported. In 10 of those events, firefighting aircraft operations had to be shut down, according to data from the
Sen. Marsha Blackburn (R-Tenn.) released a video Monday emphasizing the "urgent need" to pass the Kids Online Safety Act (KOSA), aimed at increasing children's digital safety and privacy. In the two-and-a-half-minute long video, titled "Why We Must Pass the Kids Online Safety
Postdebate polling has signaled that Vice President Kamala Harris has gained an advantage over Donald Trump in the 2024 presidential race—but the shifting dynamic hasn’t thwarted Trump’s campaign, which apparently has zero interest in attracting new voters. On Sunday, the
Presented by Novo Nordisk — Plus: Who dominated the Emmy’s, and Selena Gomez jabs at JD Vance {beacon} 12:30 REPORT It’s Monday. The Hill’s Julia Manchester astutely pointed out with these weekends of breaking news: “There is so much news that journalists don’t even have time
Whoever occupies the White House in 2025 will still find a “special relationship,” but its junior partner will have less hard power to contribute.
Rudy Giuliani just struck out again in court. The former attorney for Donald Trump, ex-mayor of New York City, and conservative gadfly tried to sue President Joe Biden in October last year for defamation for calling him a “Russian pawn” in a 2020 presidential debate against
A new poll has found that Taylor Swift's endorsement of Vice President Harris has little impact on the race, with 81% of voters surveyed saying it would not influence their vote.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said he thinks former President Trump’s comments about solving the war in Ukraine are “election messages.” In an interview with CNN’s Fareed Zakaria, Zelensky was asked what he makes of Trump’s claim that if he were president, he would
The convergence of genetic engineering and artificial intelligence brings both the potential to revolutionize medicine and the risk of significant harm.
Former independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. confirmed over the weekend that he is under investigation for “collecting a whale specimen 20 years ago.” “Right after I endorsed President Trump, I received a letter from the 'National Marine Fisheries Institute'
The North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD) detected and tracked several Russian aircraft in the Alaska area over the last week. Two aircraft were detected Sunday and two on Saturday, according to NORAD. The planes were Russian IL-38 military aircraft and were
The United States Navy commissioned its first coed submarine, the USS New Jersey, on Saturday. “New Jersey is representative of the future of the submarine force, and integrating this boat is a long time coming,” one female sailors said in the promotion video posted to the
Fox News host Sean Hannity reported that former President Trump told him he “really wanted to finish the hole“ after the Secret Service responded to an apparent assassination attempt while he was playing a round at Trump International Golf Course on Sunday in West Palm Beach,
If the justices exploit the ethical loopholes they have provided for themselves, well, there is nobody who can even nominally stop them.
The suspected gunman in an apparent second attempted assassination of former President Trump has been charged with federal gun crimes. Ryan Wesley Routh, 58, appeared in federal court in West Palm Beach on Monday before U.S. Magistrate Judge Ryon McCabe, court records show.
Former President Trump directly blamed President Biden and Vice President Harris for the latest potential assassination attempt against him, arguing Monday that their rhetoric was inspiring violence against him even as he described his opponents as "the real threat." Trump
Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene escalated a conspiracy theory about the presidential debate so blatantly baseless that even she couldn’t back it up. In the wake of Donald Trump’s disastrous debate performance last week, during which he falsely claimed that immigrants were
J.D. Vance would apparently rather protect Donald Trump’s decision to pal around with self-described “proud Islamophobe” and 9/11 conspiracy theorist Laura Loomer than stand up for his own wife. Trump has been seen with Loomer several times over the last couple of weeks, with
Appearing on Fox News Sunday, Lara Trump, the Republican National Committee co-chair and daughter-in-law of Donald Trump, defended the Trump campaign’s lies about Haitian immigrants abducting and eating pets in Springfield, Ohio. Given that the rumors amplified last week by the
Conservative lawyer George Conway argued that former President Trump and his campaign are experiencing their “ultimate implosion.” Conway, during a Sunday appearance on MSNBC’s “Inside with Jen Psaki,” weighed in on the Trump campaign after last week’s debate, which was widely
Donald Trump has tied the legal system in knots, using his status as a former president and a current presidential candidate as a tool to delay and blunt efforts that would otherwise hold him accountable.
Donald Trump’s angry post attacking Taylor Swift is drawing backlash from his own supporters. On Sunday, in an all-caps post, Trump posted on Truth Social, “I HATE TAYLOR SWIFT!” And the convicted felon’s MAGA faithful were immediately concerned. Even on Truth Social, a
What began as neo-Nazis stoking anti-Haitian sentiment in Springfield, Ohio, has led to bomb threats and children evacuated from their schools after the false allegations were given a national platform by the Trump-Vance campaign. In the span of three months, Springfield moved
Democratic lawmakers are calling out soaring executive compensation at three for-profit nursing home providers as the industry fights new minimum staffing requirements that apply to virtually every facility in the United States. The executive pay was revealed in a letter sent
The Harris-Trump race is extremely close, and appeals to ethnicity matter.
The campaign arm for Senate Democrats is investing $25 million into direct voter outreach programs in 10 main battleground states with races that will determine control of the chamber next year. The Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee (DSCC) said in a Monday release that