Local officials in Tennessee will pay $835,000 to a man imprisoned for a month last year for posting a meme about the death of Charlie Kirk, according to the man’s lawyers. The announcement comes one day after the Trump administration announced the creation of a nearly $1.8 billion fund to financially compensate people who it […]
As many as 50 million Americans live with an autoimmune disease, a broad category of disorders in which the immune system mistakenly attacks the body’s own tissues. Many of these conditions are chronic, debilitating and cannot be cured. Roughly 80% of people living with an autoimmune disease are women. Women are roughly nine times more […]
The Justice Department added a new layer to President Donald Trump’s IRS settlement Tuesday, barring the federal government from pursuing certain tax-related claims involving Trump, his family and related business entities. Meanwhile, it leaves in place a nearly $1.8 billion anti-weaponization fund created one day earlier. The new language, first reported by Politico, appears in […]
The U.S. Justice Department and FBI announced a federal indictment against former Cuban President Raúl Castro Wednesday — the brother of longtime Cuban leader Fidel Castro. He’s facing murder, conspiracy to kill U.S. nationals and destruction of aircraft charges, according to The Washington Post. Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche took part in the announcement in […]
President Donald Trump gets the result he wanted in Kentucky after longtime critic Rep. Thomas Massie loses his primary fight. Plus, critics are calling Trump’s new IRS settlement and anti-weaponization fund a political slush fund. Now the fight over who could eventually qualify for payments. And the U.S. is preparing criminal charges against Raúl Castro […]
More information has become available about the two teenagers accused of carrying out Monday’s deadly attack at a San Diego mosque, which left three people dead. Investigators said the two — identified as 17-year-old Cain Clark and 18-year-old Caleb Vazquez — met online, where authorities said they self-radicalized. Mark Remily, the lead FBI agent in San Diego, […]
President Donald Trump racked up another win Tuesday night, successfully helping oust another Republican lawmaker who didn’t always toe the party line. Kentucky. Rep. Thomas Massie lost Tuesday’s primary to Trump-backed challenger and former Navy SEAL Ed Gallrein in what has been described as the most expensive U.S. House primary ever. Gallrein’s campaign got a boost not only from Trump’s endorsement, […]
As Memorial Day weekend approaches and Americans prepare to fire up their grills, they’ll likely pay plumper prices in the produce aisle. Food prices were up 3.2% in April from a year earlier, according to the Labor Department. But fresh produce rose much more: Consumers in U.S. cities paid 6.5% more for fresh fruits and […]
Former Rep. Barney Frank, the first member of Congress to come out as gay, died Tuesday, less than a month after he entered hospice care at his home in Maine. He was 86. Frank’s sister confirmed his death to NBC News on Wednesday. “He was, above all else, a wonderful brother,” his sister Doris Breay […]
Twice a year, Americans get the same reminder: change your clocks. Now lawmakers are making another push to end that back-and-forth ritual altogether. The Sunshine Protection Act House Republicans are again trying to advance the Sunshine Protection Act, according to the Washington Post, which would eliminate the twice-yearly clock change and allow states to adopt […]
