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(WASHINGTON) — South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol touted his country’s longstanding partnership with the United States in an address before a joint meeting of Congress on Thursday. Yoon, who received a standing ovation from all members and guests as he entered the chamber, was introduced by House Speaker Kevin McCarthy before delivering a speech […]
(NEW YORK) — E. Jean Carroll returned to the witness stand on Thursday in her federal battery and defamation lawsuit against former President Donald Trump. Defense attorney Joe Tacopina suggested Carroll had political motives for filing her suit. He showed the jury an email that contained a draft excerpt from the book Carroll wrote. One […]
(WASHINGTON) — Washington was still buzzing Thursday about how, during Wednesday’s White House State Dinner featuring performances by a trio Broadway stars, the guest of honor — South Korea’s President Yoon Suk Yeol — instead stole the show with his rendition of Don McClean’s “American Pie.” After Yoon revealed that the American karaoke bar classic […]
(QUINCY, Mass.) — Massachusetts man Brian Walshe pleaded not guilty on Thursday to killing his wife, mother of three Ana Walshe, who has been missing since New Year’s Day. Brian Walshe was indicted by a grand jury last month for murder, misleading a police investigation/obstruction of justice and improper conveyance of a human body. Prosecutors […]
(NEW YORK) — The West may be out of the woods in ensuring its water supply this year, but the water crisis is still very much alive, experts caution. Last week, the California Department of Natural Resources announced that the state would receive 100% water allocation for the first time since 2006, meaning that communities […]
CT757fan/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — The United States Coast Guard is searching for a cruise ship passenger from Australia who went overboard a few hundred miles off the coast of Hawaii. The incident occurred at approximately 11:03 p.m. on Tuesday night when the Joint Rescue Coordination Center Honolulu received a report from the Quantum of […]
(WASHINGTON) — The U.S. Supreme Court on Wednesday appeared sympathetic to the appeal of a 94-year-old Minnesota woman who got no compensation when the government seized her home over a small unpaid tax bill — and pocketed the profit. Many justices suggested the practice, which the plaintiff’s lawyers at the Pacific Legal Foundation have termed […]
(NEW YORK) — Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis said Thursday that he doesn’t think Disney’s lawsuit against him “has merit.” “I think it’s political,” DeSantis said during a press conference in Jerusalem as he visited Israel. “Do you want one company to have their own fiefdom, or do you want everyone to live under the same […]
(WASHINGTON) — A divided House panel on Wednesday alternately questioned and defended American Federation of Teachers President Randi Weingarten for her role in the closing and reopening of schools at the height of COVID-19 — an issue that became increasingly politically charged as the pandemic went on. Republican members of the House Select Subcommittee on […]
(WORCESTER, Mass.) — Massachusetts Air National Guardsman Jack Teixeira began accessing “hundreds” of highly classified U.S. intelligence documents more than a year before he was arrested for allegedly leaking them, federal prosecutors said in a new court filing Wednesday. Prosecutors said government records show that as early as February 2022, Teixeira “began to access hundreds […]
