Politics

Ulrich Baumgarten via Getty Images (New York) — The Labor Department has detailed an investigation that found one of the nation’s largest food safety sanitation services providers illegally employed more than 100 children in hazardous work conditions across 13 facilities in eight states. DOL said its investigation into Packers Sanitation Services Inc., based in Wisconsin, found […]

Angelo Merendino/Getty Images (EAST PALESTINE, Ohio) — When Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Michael Regan came to East Palestine, Ohio, on Thursday, he was the first top Biden administration official on the scene since Norfolk Southern rail cars filled with toxic chemicals derailed near the town two weeks ago. The incident has since sparked intense health and […]

Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — The battle between Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell and Florida GOP Sen. Rick Scott continued Friday as Scott updated his much-criticized plan — calling for all federal programs to “sunset in five years” unless there’s a vote to renew them — to pointedly exempt Social Security and Medicare. As he […]

Mass Communication Specialist 1st Class Ryan Seelbach/U.S. Navy (WASHINGTON) — The U.S. Navy has ended operations to recover part of the Chinese spy balloon that was shot down earlier this month over the ocean off the South Carolina coast, the U.S. Northern Command said Friday. “Recovery operations concluded Feb. 16 off the coast of South […]

Official White House Photo by Adam Schultz (WASHINGTON) — President Joe Biden said the U.S. “acted out of an abundance of caution” when shooting down three unidentified aerial objects flying over North American airspace this past weekend. While officials are still working to recover the objects and assess them, Biden said nothing currently suggests they were […]

Drew Angerer/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — Pennsylvania Sen. John Fetterman on Wednesday checked himself into a Washington hospital “to receive treatment for clinical depression,” his chief of staff said on Thursday. “While John has experienced depression off and on throughout his life, it only became severe in recent weeks,” Adam Jentleson said in a statement. Jentleson said […]

ABC News Illustration/Google Earth (NEW YORK) — Since late January, four vessels, including a suspected Chinese spy balloon, have been seen in U.S. and Canadian airspace and were all subsequently shot down by the U.S. military. Some details link the incidents, including all of them occurring within a few days of each other, but there […]

Official White House Photo by Hannah Foslien (WASHINGTON) — Joe Biden on Thursday had his second physical as president, at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center, more than a year after his first physical since taking the White House. According to a memo released from the president’s physician, Dr. Kevin O’Connor, Biden “remains fit for duty, […]

Bill Clark/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — Nikki Haley, a former South Carolina governor and new GOP presidential candidate, this week accused President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris of thinking America is racist, echoing past attack lines that Biden and Harris have dismissed. “Every day we’re told America is flawed, rotten […]

Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — Sens. Richard Blumenthal, Lindsey Graham and Sheldon Whitehouse on Thursday called for Congress to have the Russian-backed paramilitary Wagner group formally labeled as terrorists. The bipartisan trio want to pass the HARM Act ahead of next week’s one-year anniversary of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, they said during a joint press […]