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(WASHINGTON) — For years, Republican Sen. Josh Hawley has been the face of a fight in Congress to reauthorize and expand access to the Radiation Exposure Compensation Act (RECA), which provides compensation to individuals exposed to nuclear waste. Now, Hawley has announced a breakthrough: reauthorization and expansion of the program in the Senate’s version of […]
ftwitty/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — A federal appeals court on Friday declined to rehear President Trump’s challenge to a $5 million civil judgment after a jury found him liable in 2023 for the battery and defamation of the writer E. Jean Carroll in the 1990s. A jury in Manhattan federal court found in 2023 that Trump attacked […]
Fatemeh Bahrami/Anadolu via Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — In the wake of a series of strikes by Israel on Iran’s nuclear sites, potentially pushing the Middle East to the brink of an all-out conflict, President Donald Trump told ABC News he thought the attacks had been “excellent” and suggested there was “more to come.” On Thursday, […]
(WASHINGTON) — Immigrant rights groups are asking a federal judge in Washington, D.C., to provide “emergency relief” and bar the Trump administration from continuing to ramp up its use of expedited removal. The motion, filed on Tuesday, is part of an ongoing lawsuit that is challenging the administration’s expansion of the process which allows the […]
(ORLANDO, Fla.) — The Orlando, Florida, community on Thursday evening is set to honor the 49 victims who were gunned down at the Pulse nightclub on June 12, 2016. It was the deadliest mass shooting in U.S. history at the time, though it was surpassed by the Las Vegas attack the following year. The ninth […]
(WASHINGTON) — Democrats expressed outrage after Democratic Sen. Alex Padilla of California was forcibly removed from Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem’s news conference on Thursday in Los Angeles, taken to the ground and handcuffed by law enforcement officers. Noem was speaking to the media about the federal response to protests against Immigration and Customs Enforcement raids in the […]
(BOCA GRANDE, Fla.) — A 9-year-old girl was attacked by a shark while snorkeling off the Florida Gulf Coast, with the animal nearly biting her entire hand off, her family said. At approximately 12 p.m. on Wednesday, 9-year-old Leah Lendel was swimming in Boca Grande, Florida, near the shore, with her mother and two younger […]
Kevin Carter/Getty Images (BOSTON) — A JetBlue flight rolled into a grass area off the runway after landing at Boston Logan International Airport on Thursday, officials said. No one was hurt, Massachusetts Port Authority said. Passengers were seen exiting the Airbus A220 by the stairs. “The runway is closed at this time as the aircraft […]
(NEW CASTLE COUNTY, Md.) — A Maryland mother has been charged with the murder of her 3-year-old daughter after falsely reporting to police that the child was kidnapped at gunpoint, according to Maryland State Police. Darrian Randle, 31, was charged with first- and second-degree murder, first-degree child abuse resulting in the death of a minor […]
(NEW YORK) — A New York judge has declared a mistrial on the third-degree rape count in Harvey Weinstein’s sex crimes retrial on Thursday, after the jury foreman refused to return to deliberate. The foreman had told Judge Curtis Farber on Wednesday that he was afraid to be in the same room with fellow jurors […]
