The Supreme Court on Wednesday allowed the execution of Tennessee inmate Christa Pike to move forward after it was halted hours earlier by a federal appeals court. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the 6th Circuit stayed Pike’s execution in the eleventh hour, as judges said they want to review whether her allegations of sexual […]

Gov. Kathy Hochul (D-NY) announced on Wednesday that Cornell University President Michael I. Kotlikoff has agreed to allow an independent investigation into the school’s handling of a female student’s allegations that she was drugged and gang-raped by seven fraternity members in 2024. Hochul had announced her intention to have an independent investigation into Cornell’s report […]

House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) dismissed the agreement President Donald Trump reached with top executives of artificial intelligence as “entirely unenforceable.” Jeffries, speaking to reporters on Wednesday, said the “notion of entering into a voluntary agreement that is entirely unenforceable and that allows the industry writ large to police itself is not the right […]

President Donald Trump said Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told him that an Israeli plumber was responsible for stabilizing a hijacked Flydubai flight, emphasizing that the passenger had no experience operating a commercial aircraft. Trump recounted his call with Netanyahu to reporters in the Oval Office on Wednesday. The president said he spoke with the […]