Hillary Clinton is testifying Thursday in a closed-door deposition before the House Oversight Committee. Former President Bill Clinton will appear Friday. The sessions are taking place in Chappaqua, New York, near the Clintons’ home, after months of negotiations between their attorneys and committee leaders. Lawmakers voted last July to subpoena both as part of Congress’s […]
Cuban officials say armed men aboard a Florida-based speedboat opened fire in Cuban waters, killing four. The U.S. says it’s investigating and confirms it wasn’t a government operation. Plus, the FBI director has dismissed agents tied to the Mar-a-Lago classified documents case. Why now, and what this says about the bureau’s direction under President Donald […]
Between April 1 and Oct. 12 last year, a man in Suffolk, Virginia, allegedly destroyed 13 AI-powered license plate reader cameras built by the surveillance company Flock Safety. Jeffrey Scott Sovern, 41, who was arrested and later released on Oct. 17, doesn’t admit to vandalizing the surveillance cameras that have stirred controversy around the country. […]
A federal judge has ruled a Trump administration policy that allows the Department of Homeland Security to deport migrants to “third countries” that are not their own, without first giving them notice or the opportunity to challenge the order, is unconstitutional. U.S. District Judge Brian Murphy in Massachusetts ruled in favor of a group of noncitizens […]
The FBI has terminated at least 10 employees — including a half-dozen special agents — who were involved in the federal investigation into President Donald Trump’s handling of classified documents. The dismissals occurred shortly after FBI Director Kash Patel announced that federal prosecutors had obtained his phone records and those of White House Chief of […]
Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn., is calling for an investigation after she said her guest for President Donald Trump’s State of the Union address was “aggressively” removed from the House chamber. Omar invited Minneapolis resident Aliya Rahman, a U.S. citizen and Bangladeshi American software engineer, as her guest for Tuesday night’s speech. Rahman was previously detained […]
In this Media Miss Minute, a newly uncovered Department of Justice (DOJ) email is raising fresh questions about whether convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein really died by suicide. Plus, one Nobel Peace Prize winner says President Donald Trump is either a traitor or “exceptional.” Media Miss by the right: DOJ email called Epstein death a […]
News headlines often compress complex science into a simple storyline: If two things are happening at the same time, one must be causing the other. Tylenol causes autism. Ultra-processed foods cause cancer. Social media causes depression. But in science, that’s only the starting point. When two trends move in tandem, researchers call that a correlation. […]
Former Harvard President and Treasury Secretary Larry Summers announced he plans to resign from his position at the university amid growing scrutiny over his ties to convicted sex-offender Jeffrey Epstein. Summers said he would retire from his professorship at the end of the academic year. “I will always be grateful to the thousands of students […]
A bipartisan aviation safety bill drafted after a fatal midair collision near Washington, D.C., has been rejected in the House, stalling its path forward. The bill failed, 264–133, one day after the Pentagon withdrew its support. It’s a reversal that The New York Times reported fueled opposition in the House. The ROTOR Act fell short […]
