National
Page: 8
Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images) (WASHINGTON) — The White House has been fielding proposals aimed at persuading people to marry and have children, an effort being pushed by outside groups focused on increasing the nation’s birth rate after years of decline. One such proposal that has been pitched to White House advisers is a $5,000 “baby bonus” […]
Nam Y. Huh-Pool/Getty Images (HIGHLAND PARK, Ill.) — Robert Crimo III, the gunman who killed seven people and injured dozens in a mass shooting in Highland Park, Illinois, on July 4, 2022, will be sentenced on Wednesday after pleading guilty in March. Crimo decided to not appear in court for his sentencing. The shooter’s parents, who […]
Win McNamee/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — Secretary of State Marco Rubio on Tuesday unveiled a sweeping plan to dramatically restructure the State Department that would see many of its longstanding offices and hundreds of positions eliminated. “In its current form, the department is bloated, bureaucratic, and unable to perform its essential diplomatic mission in this new […]
Lokman Vural Elibol/Anadolu via Getty Images (OCEAN COUNTY, N.J.) — A wildfire in New Jersey has exploded to over 8,500 acres after igniting Tuesday near Toms River and threatening more than 1,000 structures, shutting down a major highway and causing thousands of people to flee the flames. The Jones Road Wildfire was just 10% contained […]
Miguel J. Rodriguez Carrillo/Getty Images (TALLAHASSEE, Fla.) — The Florida State University community is reeling and police are searching for a motive after a gunman opened fire on the Tallahassee campus on Thursday, killing two and injuring six. Tallahassee police have laid out how the shooting unfolded. The suspect, 20-year-old FSU student Phoenix Ikner, arrived […]
Tasos Katopodis/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — Sen. Chris Van Hollen, D-Md., set out to El Salvador this week to find Kilmar Abrego Garcia, the man at the center of an erroneous deportation, and get answers about his condition. While he was relieved to get a chance to meet the Abrego Garcia face to face on Thursday, […]
Bettmann Archive/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard suggested Friday that a newly released batch of documents related to the assassination of Robert F. Kennedy raise “more questions than answers.” Her comment comes after doubts and conspiracy theories advanced by the late senator’s son and current secretary of Health and Human Services, […]
ABC News (TALLAHASSEE, Fla.) — A Florida State University graduate student shared with ABC News the harrowing moments she was shot on campus and forced to play dead as the gunman reloaded. Madison Askins, 23, one of seven people shot near FSU’s student union on Thursday, said she was walking with a friend when she […]
J. David Ake/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — A federal judge in Washington, D.C., has ordered an immediate halt to the planned firings of nearly 1,500 employees at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, and is ordering the Trump administration to hand over communications and make top officials available for testimony to determine whether they deliberately violated one of her […]
Win McNamee/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — A federal judge on Friday blocked the Trump administration from deporting noncitizens to countries other than their place of origin without due process. U.S. District Judge Brian Murphy issued an injunction that bars the Trump administration from deporting any noncitizen to a country not explicitly mentioned in their order or removal without […]
