California authorities believe a shooter may have targeted a school and critically injured two children because of its religious affiliation with the Seventh-day Adventist church. On Wednesday afternoon, a gunman opened fire at Feather River Adventist School in Butte County, wounding two kindergarteners before he took his own life. “We were going in for lunch […]
Acting Secret Service Director Ronald Rowe and Rep. Pat Fallon (R-TX) got into a verbal altercation about the presence of the acting director during the 9/11 memorial during a hearing focused on President-elect Donald Trump’s assassination attempt. Fallon accused Rowe of putting the Secret Service detail out of position so he could sit behind Trump […]
Sen. John Fetterman (D-PA) argued President Joe Biden issuing a pardon to both his son, Hunter Biden, and President-elect Donald Trump would be the “appropriate” thing to do, underscoring a need to prevent the nation’s justice system from becoming weaponized. Fetterman was asked about the bipartisan division the president’s pardon of his son has created, […]
French President Emmanuel Macron is seeking a replacement to head the government after the right and left wings of Parliament unified for a no-confidence vote against the prime minister. On Wednesday, the National Assembly voted to dissolve Prime Minister Michel Barnier’s government, with 331 out of 577 members affirming the decision. It is the first […]
Daniel Penny, a former Marine on trial for the Manhattan subway death of Jordan Neely, now faces a separate civil lawsuit from Neely’s father alleging negligence, assault, and battery as a jury deliberates Penny’s fate in the criminal case. Neely, a 30-year-old homeless man, died on May 1, 2023, after Penny restrained him in a chokehold […]
Activists protesting the proposed ban against transgender women danced in a womens restroom at the Capitol on Wednesday. Roughly 10 protesters, including biological women and others who identify as transgender and nonbinary, recorded themselves having a dance party while wearing shirts that said, “Flush the hate not our rights.” A subsequent video was set to Klymaxx’s song […]
With Congress on the fence about requiring carmakers to include AM radio, proponents this week are flooding the zone in a huge push to get the sometimes life-saving but old-school technology across the finish line. Several groups, including first responders, are citing the recent Hurricane Helene disaster in Florida, Georgia, and the Carolinas as the […]
President Joe Biden is reportedly considering issuing preemptive pardons for some current and former elected officials whom President-elect Donald Trump deems his enemies. History has shown that there is some precedent for these types of pardons. The most famous case is likely when President Gerald Ford pardoned his predecessor, Richard Nixon, after the latter resigned […]
The Washington, D.C., sports bar that was designed to encourage bipartisan political discussions has been silenced by the community for good. Political Pattie’s, which opened in September on 9th and U streets in Northwest Washington, had its final last call Wednesday. Previously, the location was a gay bar known as the Dirty Goose in an […]
An upstate New York judge is facing calls to step down after choosing not to officiate a wedding ceremony between two women. The ceremony in question was held last month when Syracuse City Court Judge Felicia Pitts-Davis was on the bench on Nov. 16 when two weddings were scheduled. The first was between a man […]
