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Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — The House passed a $1.2 trillion government funding package, the first in a series of steps that need to be taken to avert a partial government shutdown before a deadline at midnight Friday. The bills passed in a 286-134 vote despite pushback from far-right members of the Republican caucus. More […]
Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Mega Million’s jackpot has surged to $977 million after no winners were selected in Tuesday night’s drawing. The next drawing is Friday night at 11 p.m. The numbers drawn Saturday night were: 24, 46, 49, 62 and 66 and gold Mega Ball 7. There have been 29 consecutive drawing […]
Win McNamee/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — Georgia Republican Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene on Friday filed a motion to vacate the speaker’s chair, threatening to oust Speaker Mike Johnson just months after he ascended to the speakership. “I filed the motion to vacate today, but it’s more of a warning and a pink slip,” Greene told reporters […]
Spencer Platt/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — In his State of the Union address this month, President Joe Biden boasted that the nation reported a historically low murder rate in 2023 and violent crime had plummeted to one of the lowest levels in 50 years. For some Americans, however, the perception of crime is clashing with the […]
Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — The House will vote on the $1.2 trillion government funding package Friday morning — the first in a series of steps to avert a government shutdown that still can’t be ruled out. The House will vote between 11 a.m. and 11:30 a.m., Majority Leader Steve Scalise announced. If it passes […]
ABC News (NEW YORK) — The first weekend of spring is being ushered in with snow in the Midwest and New England, and heavy rain in major Northeast cities. Montana to Minnesota saw 4 to 8 inches of snow overnight as a second storm slammed Texas with hail. These storms will combine over the Northeast […]
LAPD (LOS ANGELES) — A suspect has been arrested on a kidnapping charge for allegedly hijacking a Los Angeles public bus with a BB gun and forcing the operator to drive before crashing into a hotel, police said. The incident began around 11:10 p.m. PT on Wednesday in downtown Los Angeles, when the suspect boarded […]
Marilyn Nieves/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump have clinched their respective parties’ nominations, setting the stage for a rematch between the two in November. But many Americans are not feeling favorable toward either candidate — and what these voters, sometimes referred to as “double haters,” decide could be decisive […]
ABC News (NEW YORK) — Regina, a mother of three daughters, lives in one of the poorest counties in one of the country’s poorest states — Mississippi. She holds down a job during the day and is attending nursing school. Life for her is hard, but she manages as best she can. In late 2022, […]
avid_creative/Getty Images (AUGUSTA, Ga.) — Two juveniles who escaped from police while being transported to a youth detention center in Augusta, Georgia, are back in custody after allegedly knocking out a deputy on Thursday, according to authorities. The two teenagers, a 14-year-old and a 15-year-old, were being transported to the Augusta Regional Youth Detention Center […]
