A butterfly species has been named Iryna’s Azure in memory of Iryna Zarutska, a Ukrainian refugee who was killed on board a train in North Carolina in August. Zarutska, 23, fled Ukraine in 2022 after Russia’s invasion, and had been working at a pizzeria when she was killed in Charlotte, North Carolina, on Aug. 22. […]

House Republicans on the Oversight Committee released a long-awaited report on former President Joe Biden‘s cognitive decline and his staff’s use of the autopen, finding that his top aides exercised presidential powers on his behalf during his time in office. House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer (R-KY) unveiled a 90-page report Tuesday accusing senior aides of wielding the […]

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton has filed a lawsuit against the makers of Tylenol, Johnson & Johnson and Kenvue, becoming the first state attorney general to take legal action following the Trump administration’s warning against the pain reliever. The Texas filing comes one month after President Donald Trump and Health and Human Services Secretary Robert […]

House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) is holding a press conference at 10 a.m. Tuesday as he has done for almost every day of the government shutdown since the start of October. The shutdown is now on its 28th day. The longest shutdown lasted 35 days during President Donald Trump’s first term.