U.S. Olympics announced it will provide air conditioners for American athletes at the Paris Games, bypassing France’s ambitious green standards. “As you can imagine, this is a period of time in which consistency and predictability is critical for Team USA’s performance,” U.S. Olympic and Paralympic Committee CEO Sarah Hirshland said Friday. “In our conversations with […]
Washington, D.C., is in no hurry to make swimming in the Potomac River legal despite significant improvements made in the river’s water quality and bacterial levels. Under Washington law, swimming in the Potomac River has been illegal since 1971. At the time, Washington enacted a swimming ban to prevent illness due to concerns about high […]
California will not be the only state hosting Olympic events for the 2028 Summer Olympics after organizers announced Friday their intentions to host two sports in Oklahoma. The Los Angeles 2028 Olympic organizing committee announced multiple changes to venues for where sports will be competed in four years, with five Olympics sports being moved out […]
The Food and Drug Administration approved the first menthol-flavored electronic cigarettes in the United States on Friday. The FDA said it had authorized four e-cigarette products made by the vaping company Njoy. Two of the products are pre-filled pods used with an e-cigarette device, while the other two are disposable e-cigarettes. The FDA’s decision to […]
Summer began Thursday, and Washington, D.C., is preparing for a sizzling first weekend of the season, with temperatures expected to reach as high as 100 degrees. The National Weather Service issued a heat advisory for Washington, D.C., and surrounding parts of Maryland and Virginia, for much of Saturday. Temperatures are currently forecast to be in […]
Donald Trump received broad support at an annual gathering of religious conservatives on Friday despite the former president’s opposition to a federal abortion ban. At the Faith & Freedom Coalition’s yearly conference in Washington, speaker after speaker championed Trump’s record on abortion while criticizing President Joe Biden‘s commitment to protecting access to the procedure. Democrats […]
A judge in Nevada dismissed a case Friday involving six defendants who faced charges of illegally claiming they were the state’s electors in the wake of former President Donald Trump‘s defeat in the 2020 presidential election. Judge Mary Kay Holthus of Clark County said at a hearing that the Nevada attorney general, a Democrat, filed […]
Boeing could avoid criminal prosecution for the second time in relation to problems found in the 737 Max 8 model, which was involved in two deadly plane crashes in 2018 and 2019. By the end of June, the Department of Justice will decide whether or not to extend another deferred prosecution agreement to the company. This […]
The 2022 Supreme Court precedent that bolstered Second Amendment rights for gun owners was affirmed on Friday despite a testy dissent from Justice Clarence Thomas in a ruling that upheld a gun ban for domestic violence offenders. Thomas was the lone dissenter from an 8-1 majority opinion in United States v. Rahimi, which upheld a […]
Republicans are reiterating calls to empower local law enforcement to help the federal government deport illegal immigrants charged with crimes in the United States following the death of Maryland mother Rachel Morin. From conservative lawmakers like Sen. Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) to House centrists including Rep. Don Bacon (R-NE), Republicans have criticized President Joe Biden’s border […]
