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(WASHINGTON) — Lawmakers returned from their Thanksgiving break Monday with much work to accomplish and relatively little time to accomplish it in. Here are five things to watch for as Congress rolls back to Washington for the end-of-the-year legislative sprint: Ukraine funding faces its toughest test yet Congress has gone nearly a year without rubber-stamping […]
(NEW YORK) — Former President Donald Trump is on trial in New York in a $250 million civil lawsuit that could alter the personal fortune and real estate empire that helped propel Trump to the White House. Trump, his sons Eric Trump and and Donald Trump Jr., and other top Trump Organization executives are accused […]
(WASHINGTON) — Speaking with special counsel Jack Smith’s team earlier this year, former Vice President Mike Pence offered harrowing details about how, in the wake of the 2020 presidential election, then-President Donald Trump surrounded himself with “crank” attorneys, espoused “un-American” legal theories, and almost pushed the country toward a “constitutional crisis,” according to sources familiar […]
(AUSTIN, Texas) — The Texas Supreme Court is set to hear arguments Tuesday in an ongoing lawsuit filed by women against the state over its multiple abortion bans. The suit, first filed by the Center for Reproductive Rights in March, was filed by women who say their lives were put in danger due to the […]
(NEW YORK) — New York City prosecutors moved on Monday to vacate the convictions of two men who both spent more than 20 years in prison after being convicted in the 1990s in separate murder cases. The office of Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg said Jabar Walker, 49, who is also known as Jabar Moore, […]
(NEW YORK) — More than 40,000 Oregon students returned to classes Monday for the first time this month as Portland teachers ended the longest U.S. teachers strike in 2023. Over the weekend, Portland Public Schools (PPS), the largest school district in the state, reached a tentative agreement to end the more than three-week strike that […]
(NEW YORK) — Less than two weeks before its maiden voyage, Life at Sea Cruises announced it had canceled its three-year voyage after delays and logistical challenges, leaving passengers who spent tens of thousands of dollars stranded. Life at Sea Cruises said it will make repayments in monthly installments to passengers from mid-December, but customers […]
(NEW YORK) — The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is warning consumers about a multistate salmonella outbreak linked to some cantaloupes. The CDC published a food safety alert on Friday, after multiple retailers and brands — including Trufresh, Crown Jewels Produce, Vinyard Fruit and Vegetable Company, CF Dallas, ALDI and Pacific Trellis Fruit — […]
(NEW YORK) — A 48-year-old man arrested in the Burlington, Vermont, shooting of three college students of Palestinian descent pleaded not guilty Monday to three counts second-degree attempted murder. The suspect, Jason Eaton of Burlington, appeared in Vermont Superior Court via web conferencing and only spoke to introduce himself and enter his plea of “not […]
Greg Bajor/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — This year’s Thanksgiving holiday shattered travel records. There were 2,907,378 people screened Sunday at U.S. airports — the highest number of people to go through security on a single day ever, according to the Transportation Security Administration. The record came despite a cross-country storm that brought snow to busy […]
