In February, Alabama’s Supreme Court ruled that embryos are human, triggering a political earthquake that erupted across the country. The Democratic Party seized the moment, defining the decision’s interpretation, and immediately labeling it as anti-in-vitro fertilization. With top Democrats arguing that Republicans’ anti-abortion positions are incompatible with a pro-IVF posture, Republicans have been put in […]
When you park your car in Chicago and pay the meter, the payment doesn’t go to the city like most American cities. Instead, a company partly owned by foreign investors is pocketing the revenue. In the dire straits of the 2008 financial crisis, like many people, the city of Chicago had fallen on hard times. […]
Film producer Harvey Weinstein is appealing his rape conviction in Los Angeles, with his lawyers arguing he did not receive a fair trial. Weinstein was tried and convicted in 2022 of rape and sexual assault, for which he was sentenced to 16 years in prison. That came after a 23-year sentence for similar charges in […]
Mark Meadows, a former Trump White House chief of staff, pleaded not guilty to nine felony charges Friday in Arizona. The plea comes six weeks after Meadows and others were indicted by a grand jury for their alleged efforts to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election in the state, which Democrat Joe Biden […]
Reps. Cori Bush (D-MO) and Emanuel Cleaver (D-MO) called on Gov. Mike Parson (R-MO) to stay the execution of a veteran. David Hosier, 69, is scheduled to be executed Tuesday for the murders of his ex-girlfriend, Angela Gilpin, and her husband, Rodney Gilpin. Hosier served in the U.S. Navy and also worked for the Jefferson City […]
Former President Donald Trump will be in Nevada on Sunday, as will a billboard attacking him for his status as a convicted felon, paid for by the Democratic National Committee. The attack ad comes after a Manhattan jury found Trump guilty on all 34 felony counts of falsifying business records last week. While the former president has committed […]
With less than two weeks from the first presidential debate, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and his campaign are hustling to get on as many state ballots as possible to be eligible for the debate on CNN, which requires a candidate to be able to win at least 270 electoral votes. The independent presidential candidate announced […]
A missing woman was found inside a reticulated python after it swallowed her whole Friday in Indonesia. The woman, known as Farida, 45, was reported missing since Thursday. She is survived by her husband and four children. Kalempang villagers from the South Sulawesi province searched for her, finding her belongings left behind before they found […]
Law enforcement officers used pepper spray on some protesters taking part in a pro-Palestinian rally outside the White House on Saturday. Protesters clad in keffiyeh began gathering outside the presidential residence in Washington, D.C., Saturday morning. Their signs called on President Joe Biden to “free Palestine” and “end the siege on Gaza now.” Others stood […]
U.S. Rep. Henry Cuellar‘s (D-TX) federal corruption trial has been delayed until after Election Day, a Texas judge ruled on Friday. Judge Lee Rosenthal approved the request made by both Cuellar’s defense team and federal prosecutors. The trial will take place sometime next year in Houston. Cuellar and his wife, Imelda Cuellar, were indicted on […]
