President Joe Biden is making plans to travel overseas for two major summits next month. Tuesday the white house announced the President will attend the G-7 meeting in Japan and and the Quad leaders’ summit in Australia. The 49th G-7 summit will be held in Hiroshima from May 19th to the 21st. While there, Biden
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E. Jean Carroll is expected to testify on Wednesday in the battery and defamation trial against Former President Donald Trump. The former magazine columnist arrived at a federal courthouse Tuesday morning for her civil trial. She alleges Trump raped her in the dressing room of a luxury department store in the mid 1990’s. Trump denies
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EL PASO, Texas (KVIA) — The owners of Zee’s Pizzeria in New Orleans are offering free pizza in exchange for two tickets to the extremely popular Taylor Swift Eras Tour. Fans of Swift are notoriously desperate to get their hands on tickets, sending prices into the thousands and notoriously causing Ticketmaster to crash. Now restaurant
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The terrorist allegedly responsible for planning the August 2021 bombing at the Kabul, Afghanistan, airport that killed 13 U.S. service members and at least 170 Afghans was himself killed by Taliban fighters “in recent weeks,” U.S. officials tell ABC News. A senior Biden administration official on Tuesday described the deceased leader of the Islamic State group’s Afghanistan affiliate (also
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(CNN) — Certain work conditions — including inflexible or late-night schedules and lack of paid sick leave — can have a significant effect on mental health, according to a new report from the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. In 2021, about 1 in every 37 working adults experienced serious psychological distress, or negative
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SACRAMENTO, California (KOVR) — A young cancer survivor is using his passion for dance to raise money for cancer research. The tough 8-year-old is getting the community on the dance floor to make a difference. When 8-year-old Aiden hears the beat, he can’t help but move his feet. If the going gets tough, he keeps
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President Joe Biden formally announced on Tuesday that he is ready to run for a second term in office. This marks four years to the day when Biden made the announcement of his 2020 run for the White House. The announcement was made in a three-minute video. 80 year-old Biden asking voters to give him more time to
Continue Reading UPDATE: (CNN) — A suspect is in custody after a reported active shooter situation at Rose State College in Midwest City, Oklahoma, the city’s police chief said Monday. Chief Sid Porter said students and staff did a “fantastic job” at responding to the incident at the community college east of Oklahoma City. He said the
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(CNN) — CNN has parted ways with longtime host Don Lemon. “Don will forever be a part of the CNN family, and we thank him for his contributions over the past 17 years,” said CNN CEO Chris Licht in a statement. “We wish him well and will be cheering him on in his future endeavors.”
Continue Reading (CNN) — Fox News and Tucker Carlson, the right-wing extremist who hosted the network’s highly rated 8pm hour, have severed ties, the network said in a stunning announcement Monday. The announcement came one week after Fox News settled a monster defamation lawsuit with Dominion Voting Systems for $787.5 million over the network’s dissemination of election
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Bed Bath & Beyond filed for bankruptcy on Sunday. The company’s 360 locations, will remain open for now, as will websites. The company secured a $240 million loan to help fund its operations during bankruptcy. But store closing sales will begin Wednesday, and Bed Bath & Beyond will close some stores. Just how many depends
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(CNN) — The Supreme Court on Friday protected access to a widely used abortion drug by freezing lower-court rulings that placed restrictions on its usage. As a result, the US Food and Drug Administration’s approval of the drug mifepristone and subsequent actions that made it more easily accessible will remain in place while appeals play
Continue Reading (CNN) — All eyes are on the Supreme Court as it could say at any moment before midnight Friday how it will handle a blockbuster medication abortion case that landed on its doorstep late last week. The Supreme Court is deciding whether to let lower court rulings that would restrict access to a medication abortion drug go into effect. Justice
Continue Reading (CNN) — Lawyers for Hunter Biden are scheduled to meet next week with US attorney David Weiss and at least one senior career official from Justice Department headquarters to discuss the long-running investigation into the president’s son, multiple sources familiar with the matter told CNN. The Hunter Biden legal team had reached out to Justice officials in
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Book bans are on the rise as the public school year draws to a close and one report says nearly a third of them are a direct result of new restrictive state laws. In new PEN America report released Thursday, PEN America writes from July to December 2022, there were 1,477 book bans directed at 874 different
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Twitter has begun purging blue verification checkmarks from users who have not paid for its subscription service to authenticate accounts. Twitter’s owner Elon Musk says people who fear other users will impersonate them need to pay an $8 a month verification fee by joining Twitter Blue. Some folks including well-known journalists, celebrities, and other high-profile
Continue Reading (CNN) — SpaceX’s Starship, the most powerful rocket ever built, took off from a launch pad on the coast of South Texas on Thursday at 9:28 a.m. ET, but exploded midair before stage separation. Thursday’s launch marked the vehicle’s historic first test flight. “As if the flight test was not exciting enough, Starship experienced a
Continue Reading (CNN) — Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito on Wednesday temporarily extended a hold on a lower court ruling that would have imposed restrictions on access to an abortion drug, a move meant to give the justices more time to consider the issue. In a similar order last week, Alito had said the court would rule by 11:59 p.m. ET
Continue Reading (CNN) — A parking garage that collapsed Tuesday in lower Manhattan, killing one person and injuring five others, had six open building violations, three of which were classified as “hazardous,” New York City Department of Buildings records show. The garage, on Ann Street in the Financial District, was a four-story building that “pancaked … all
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Netflix is shutting down its DVD rental business after a 25-year-run. This fall, the streaming giant will officially say goodbye to its DVD rental service and all of the red envelopes that made it possible. The company tweeted Tuesday that it will send out its last red envelope on September 29th. It has reportedly mailed
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(CNN) — The judge just announced in court that a settlement has been reached in the historic defamation case between Fox News and Dominion Voting Systems. “The parties have resolved their case,” Superior Court Judge Eric Davis said. “Your presence here… was extremely important. And without you, the parties would not have been able to resolve their
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(CNN) — A parking garage collapsed in lower Manhattan on Tuesday afternoon, killing one person and injuring five others, the New York Fire Department’s operations chief said. The parking garage was a four-story building that “pancaked…all the way to the cellar floor,” NYC Department of Buildings Acting Commissioner Kazimir Vilenchik said. Officials said they believe
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EL PASO, Texas (KVIA) – It is National Work Zone Awareness Week, and Transportation officials in El Paso want to remind drivers to be mindful while driving in work zones. They say too many people exceed the speed limit and often aren’t paying attention while encountering work zones on our roads. They want drivers to
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WILMINGTON, Delaware— The Dominion Voting Systems defamation case against Fox News is set to begin Tuesday. The trial, initially was scheduled to begin with opening statements on Monday, but it was abruptly delayed on Sunday evening. It raised speculation of settlement talks, but ultimately failed to prevent the trial’s open. Court house officials are taking extra
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Writers in the movie and television industry is staring at a possible writers’ strike. Members of the Writers Guild of America (WGA) voted overwhelmingly to strike when their contract expires on May 1st. The vote announced Monday afternoon showed 97.9% of participating union members voting to approve a potential strike. The WGA has more than eleven thousand
Continue Reading (CNN) — [Breaking news update, published at 6 p.m. ET] The man who shot and wounded 16-year-old Ralph Yarl, a Black teen, after the teen went to the wrong home to pick up his siblings will face two felony charges, Clay County attorney Zachary Thompson announced early Monday evening. Andrew Lester, an 85-year-old White man, will
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The US Supreme Court is facing the most significant abortion-related dispute since Roe v. Wade was overturned last summer. Justices are considering a lower court ruling that would place restrictions on access to an abortion drug and a decision could come this week. Numerous abortion rights rallies were held over the weekend. These protests come
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WILMINGTON, Delaware– The Delaware judge overseeing a voting machine company’s $1.6 billion defamation lawsuit against Fox News announced late Sunday that he was delaying the start of the trial until Tuesday. The trial was set to start on Monday. The judge’s statement did not provide an explanation for the delay. Dominion sued Fox saying the
Continue Reading (CNN) — Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito on Friday extended a hold on a lower court ruling that would have imposed restrictions on access to an abortion drug, a temporary move meant to give the justices more time to consider the issue. Alito said the order is stayed until 11:59 p.m. ET on Wednesday. He
Continue Reading (CNN) — A former Fox News producer who claims the right-wing network pressured her to give false testimony escalated her own lawsuit against the company, adding CEO Suzanne Scott as defendant and accusing Fox’s lawyers of deleting messages from her phone. In explosive lawsuits filed last month, Abby Grossberg claimed Fox lawyers bullied her into protecting the
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