The first full round of the 2024 NCAA men’s Division I basketball tournament begins on Thursday, with 64 teams battling for the national championship in college hoops. With this year’s iteration of March Madness, teams will be playing to reach the Final Four in Arizona and ultimately the national championship game. Here is what to […]
Lawmakers unveiled the legislative text for its final appropriations package overnight Thursday, starting the clock for Congress to push the 1012-page bill through both chambers and be signed by President Joe Biden — all before midnight on Friday. Shortly before 3 a.m. Eastern, appropriators announced the $1 trillion minibus package that combines funding for the […]
The Shifa Hospital in Gaza has been emblematic of how embedded Hamas is in the everyday life of the enclave, and its return to headlines months after Israel seized it demonstrates the country’s continued fight against the terrorist group. Last November, the Israel Defense Forces took control of the hospital in the northern part of […]
A Texas bus company has agreed to stop busing immigrants to New York City after a lawsuit from Mayor Eric Adams. Roadrunner Charters signed a stipulation letter agreeing to stop sending immigrants to New York City on Wednesday. The company was one of the spearheads of Gov. Greg Abbott’s (R-TX) effort to ship immigrants to […]
A pizza activist was taken into custody for hurling pizza slices at New York City Hall on Wednesday in protest of the city’s upcoming crackdown on pizzerias for their wood- and coal-fired ovens. Scott LoBaido, an artist and activist, was seen in a social media video repeatedly hurling pizza slices from pizza boxes over the […]
President Joe Biden said he won’t “demonize immigrants” during the first of two campaign stops in Dallas on Wednesday night as Donald Trump, his GOP opponent for president, blames him for the chaos at the southern border. “Unlike Trump, I’m not going to demonize immigrants,” Biden said to cheers of “Four more years!” from supporters […]
Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) urged his Republican colleagues not to support the imposition of term limits in a closed-door meeting. McConnell, 82, has previously spoken out against term limits and reiterated his position in a Wednesday meeting. According to Axios, he stressed that imposing limits would be a bad idea. The Senate minority […]
The Supreme Court on Wednesday heard arguments over the Biden administration‘s objections to a Rio Grande water compact between three Western states, prompting Justice Neil Gorsuch to quip that he’s coming to “regret” his 2018 ruling that said the federal government had special interests in the plan. During oral arguments in the case known as […]
The first human to be seen using a brain implant was livestreamed on the social platform X on Wednesday. Neuralink’s social media account showed 29-year-old Noland Arbaugh playing online chess with his mind during a historic live video stream. He is paralyzed from the shoulders down after having survived a diving accident eight years ago. […]
Republicans made grand accusations during an impeachment hearing Wednesday that President Joe Biden actively participated in his son’s and brother’s business dealings to enrich his family. But Democrats repeatedly dismissed the claims as lies and denounced the hearing as a waste of time, underscoring the partisan divide over the inquiry, which has stretched more than […]
