House votes to clamp down on fraudulent unemployment insurance claims
The House voted Thursday to pass a bill that would help recover fraudulent unemployment insurance benefits paid out during the pandemic.
2023-05-12 06:27
Republican front-runner for North Carolina governor attacked Civil Rights Movement: 'So many freedoms were lost'
North Carolina Lt. Gov. Mark Robinson, the state's first Black lieutenant governor and the GOP front-runner for the 2024 gubernatorial race, repeatedly lambasted the "so-called" 1960s Civil Rights Movement, lamenting that "so many freedoms were lost during the civil rights movement."
2023-05-12 05:48
Trump appealing $5 million judgment in E. Jean Carroll civil suit
Former President Donald Trump is appealing the $5 million judgment awarded by the Manhattan federal jury that found he sexually abused and defamed former magazine columnist E. Jean Carroll.
2023-05-12 05:23
Biden, McCarthy's Friday debt ceiling meeting postponed, White House says
By Jeff Mason and Jarrett Renshaw WASHINGTON A debt limit meeting between U.S. President Joe Biden and top
2023-05-12 04:55
GOP senator on White nationalists in the military: 'I call them Americans' -- but later tries to clarify
In an interview with a local Alabama radio station, Republican Sen. Tommy Tuberville was asked if he believes White nationalists should be allowed in the military. He responded, "I call them Americans."
2023-05-12 03:48
Ohio Republicans approve August election that could thwart abortion-rights push in state
Ohio voters will decide this summer whether to make it more difficult to change the state's constitution -- only months before a potential ballot measure in November over whether to guarantee abortion rights in the state. Ohio's Republican-controlled legislature this week approved a resolution that will ask voters in August to increase the threshold needed to change the constitution from a simple majority to 60%.
2023-05-12 03:47
Senate votes to rebuke Biden administration over wildlife rules
The Senate voted Thursday to undo Biden administration changes to two Trump administration wildlife rules -- one governing what a habitat definition is, and one on reclassifying a wildlife species.
2023-05-12 02:16
Dianne Feinstein returns and Democrats advance Biden judicial nominees that had been stalled in committee
With the return of California Sen. Dianne Feinstein, Senate Democrats approved several judicial nominees out of the Judiciary Committee on Thursday that had been stalled in her absence.
2023-05-12 01:51
Supreme Court upholds California's anti-animal cruelty law for pork
The Supreme Court upheld a California law that bars the sale of pork produced in other states unless the sow was housed in conditions that allowed her to move freely.
2023-05-12 01:27
Trump's primary polling advantage is historically large
With Wednesday's CNN town hall behind him, former President Donald Trump remains both the prohibitive GOP front-runner for the 2024 nomination and a man who was found liable this week in a civil case for sexually abusing and defaming former magazine columnist E. Jean Carroll.
2023-05-12 01:23
EU says it has not seen high levels of weapons smuggling from Ukraine
By Max Hunder KYIV The EU has not observed any significant smuggling of weapons into Europe from wartime
2023-05-12 01:20
Supreme Court sides with ex-Cuomo aide and Buffalo developer in disputes over corruption convictions
The Supreme Court on Thursday sided with a former aide of then-New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo, Joseph Percoco, who argued that a federal anti-bribery statute should not have been used to convict him.
2023-05-12 00:50