Former President Obama is ramping up pressure in Virginia to have voters support the state's redistricting measure and give Democratic candidates a stronger chance in the November midterm elections, telling Virginians, "we're counting on you." ABC News obtained the new video of Obama reminding Old Dominion voters that "early voting is underway" with turnout so...
White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said Friday that the Trump administration is looking into whether there may be a link among nearly a dozen American scientists who have reportedly died or gone missing in the past almost three years. Leavitt wrote in a post on social platform X that the White House is working...
The United Kingdom and France gathered more than 50 countries in Paris on Friday for a discussion focused on joint efforts to secure free trade through the Strait of Hormuz. French President Emmanuel Macron and British Prime Minister Keir Starmer co-chaired the panel. The discussion included representatives from 51 countries, with around 30 to 40...
An Iranian state news outlet on Friday questioned the "unexpected tweet" from Iran's foreign minister Abbas Araghchi about the reopening of the Strait of Hormuz following the start of Israel and Lebanon's 10-day ceasefire. Araghchi wrote on the social platform X that the Strait of Hormuz was open "for all commercial vessels... for the remaining...
President Trump is headlining Turning Point USA's event Friday afternoon in Arizona, as Republicans seek to bolster support ahead of November. The “Build the Red Wall” event comes at a time when Trump's backing among young voters is slipping as the conflict in Iran persists and as affordability concerns continue to mount. A recent Yale...
Rümeysa Öztürk, the Tufts University student who was detained by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) last year, has completed her Ph.D. program and is returning to her home country of Turkey, her lawyers announced Friday. Öztürk was detained by ICE in 2025 after she co-authored an opinion piece for the student newspaper criticizing her school’s response to the...
As the World Cup approaches, there is growing controversy in the greater New York-New Jersey area over the high train ticket prices to MetLife Stadium.
MS NOW host Jen Psaki attempted to shut down hopes from Democrats to invoke the 25th Amendment to oust President Trump from office amid criticism of his rhetoric and strikes on Iran. “I have no issue with people saying they're for invoking the 25th Amendment, but it's not going to happen,” Psaki, former President Biden's...
Aaron Carter accidentally drowned in his bathtub due to sedatives and gas inhalation.
After being held in a U.S. immigration detention facility for the past 16 days, an elderly French woman returned home to France on Friday. Marie-Thérèse Ross was detained by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) in Alabama on April 1 for overstaying her 90-day visa. She had previously been at a federal immigration detention center in...
Rep. Mark Takano (D-Calif.) grilled Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. about President Trump's mental fitness Friday, pressing him about some of Trump's recent social media posts. During a Friday hearing in the House Education and Workforce Committee about the budget of the Department of Health and Human Services, Takano presented large...
The Trump administration has officially scheduled an auction for the rights to drill in a controversial spot: a wildlife refuge in Alaska. The auction, in which companies will be able to bid for the right to drill in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, is set for June 5. The Trump administration declined to immediately say...
The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) will cut down on flights at Chicago’s O’Hare International Airport in anticipation of summer travel delays, the agency announced Thursday. The FAA will limit the number of planes departing the airport on a daily basis this summer to 2,708. There are currently 3,080 planned flights on peak days of summer...
Former White House strategist Steve Bannon said he believes artificial intelligence company Anthropic “had it right” in demanding its technology not be used in fully autonomous lethal weapons, setting off a fight with the Pentagon. The Pentagon has insisted it be allowed to use Anthropic’s Claude for “all lawful uses" and last month labeled the...
Despite recent tensions, the U.K. and U.S. have maintained a special relationship for over 80 years due to their strategic utility, but for the relationship to endure, the U.K. must become more powerful on its own terms with a stronger defense, diplomatic and development strategy.
???? Plus: Oil prices dramatically fall, stock market jumps {beacon} Happy Friday! The National Zoo’s new baby elephant made her big debut. She made a friend and I cannot handle how cute it is. Oh, and both the NHL playoffs and the NBA playoffs begin this weekend! In today's issue: Iran says Strait of...
The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) is targeting video gamers to serve in air traffic controller roles, an effort Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy described as “wildly successful.” “This has been wildly successful, and if you think just what these gamers are doing on screens, they're talking and there's a lot of things going on,” Duffy said...
Sen. Katie Britt (Ala.), the chair of the Senate Appropriations Homeland Security Subcommittee and a leading GOP voice on immigration issues, says a House-passed bill to extend legal protections for Haitian refugees is “dead on arrival” in the Senate. Britt offered a stinging rebuke to 10 moderate House Republicans who voted with Democrats Thursday to...
British Prime Minister Keir Starmer said Friday that he was “furious” that he did not know former Labour Party minister Peter Mandelson failed his security vetting before becoming the United Kingdom’s top diplomat in Washington. The Guardian reported a day earlier that Mandelson was initially denied clearance in early 2025 after undergoing a highly confidential...
They are turning it into propaganda tools, weaponizing that history to turn Americans against each other and against the war.
Virginia voters will soon decide on a proposed amendment that would allow the state legislature to draw its own House districts, potentially leading to a partisan arms race and weakening the voices of voters.
The Senate on Friday passed a 10-day extension of the nation’s warrantless spy powers, approving a House plan hatched on the floor after a chaotic rejection of a package negotiated with skeptics. The bill will now head to the president’s desk, but Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) will continue to dominate Congress in...
A federal judge this week rejected the Trump administration’s pre-emptive lawsuit from last year to block the state of Hawaii from suing fossil fuel companies over climate impact concerns. Hawaii Senior U.S. District Judge Helen Gillmor dismissed the administration’s lawsuit with prejudice in a Wednesday ruling. Federal officials filed the U.S. complaint on April 30,...
Stephen Colbert, the host of CBS’s “The Late Show,” on Friday released a Kendrick Lamar-inspired diss track against President Trump that included a depiction of Pope Leo XIV. The diss track, called “They Not Pious” and set to Kendrick Lamar’s 2024 song of the year “They Not Like Us,” makes fun of Trump’s age, his...
Two Senate Republicans who previously rejected Democratic-led efforts to curb President Trump’s ability to continue the military action against Iran without obtaining congressional approval signaled this week that their view on war powers could shift if the conflict stretches past the 60-day mark. “It is very likely that I would vote not to authorize...
