White House responds after De Niro and Springsteen use Colbert farewell to take shots at Trump

Robert De Niro and Bruce Springsteen turned Stephen Colbert's second-to-last "Late Show" episode into a sendoff rally against President Donald Trump on Wednesday night, and the White House wasted no time responding. More than a dozen celebrities made surprise appearances on the penultimate broadcast, but only two used the spotlight to aim directly at the […]

Florida senior killed in crash outside school while heading to graduation practice

Christopher Brooks, an 18-year-old senior at South Fork High School in Martin County, Florida, died Thursday morning after rear-ending a dump truck just outside the school entrance, on the very day he was heading to graduation practice. The crash happened around 8:30 a.m. on Southwest Pratt Whitney Road at the intersection of Bulldog Way, according […]

Kennedy dismisses two vice chairs of U.S. Preventive Services Task Force in leadership overhaul

Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. fired both vice chairs of the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force on May 11, leaving the influential medical panel at half strength and without top leadership as it faces its longest stretch of inactivity in memory. John Wong and Esa Davis, the two dismissed leaders, received letters stating their […]

Speaker Johnson declines to rule out Jan. 6 defendants from $1.8 billion anti-weaponization fund

House Speaker Mike Johnson refused Wednesday to say whether Americans prosecuted after the January 6, 2021, Capitol breach could apply for compensation through the Trump administration's newly created $1.8 billion Anti-Weaponization Fund, leaving the door open to a possibility that has already sent Democrats into a fury. Speaking at a House leadership press conference, the […]

Trump signals openness to backing a challenger against Boebert after her Massie campaign trip

President Donald Trump told reporters Wednesday he would consider supporting a primary challenger to Rep. Lauren Boebert after the Colorado Republican traveled to Kentucky to campaign for Rep. Thomas Massie, a longtime Trump adversary who lost his primary that same night to a Trump-backed opponent. "It's a little late in the race, but if somebody […]

Texas Democrat Maureen Galindo draws bipartisan condemnation for vow to jail 'American Zionists' at ICE detention center

A Democratic congressional candidate in Texas pledged to convert an ICE detention facility into a prison for "American Zionists and former ICE officers," drawing swift condemnation from members of her own party, including one sitting congressman who compared the proposal to concentration camps for American Jews. Maureen Galindo, a sex therapist and housing activist running […]

Jackson stands alone as Supreme Court's liberal bloc distances itself from her escalating rhetoric

Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson warned Monday that the Supreme Court risks looking partisan, a charge she has leveled repeatedly against the conservative majority, and one that her own liberal colleagues have increasingly declined to join. Speaking at the American Law Institute in Washington, D.C., Jackson said public confidence "is really all the judiciary has" and […]

Mango founder's son named suspect in father's cliff death amid bitter family and business dispute

Jonathan Andic, the 45-year-old eldest son of Mango fashion empire founder Isak Andic, appeared in a Barcelona-area court on Tuesday after Spanish authorities named him a suspect in his father's death, a case that was initially ruled an accident but is now being treated as a possible homicide. The billionaire fashion mogul, 71, died in […]

Trump sends special envoy Jeff Landry to Greenland as military base talks intensify

Louisiana Governor Jeff Landry touched down in Nuuk, Greenland, on Sunday as President Donald Trump's special envoy to the Arctic territory, arriving ahead of a major investment conference and amid at least five rounds of closed-door negotiations between American, Danish, and Greenlandic officials over new U.S. military installations on the island. Landry's visit marks the […]

Trump and Mark Cuban join forces at White House to push cheaper prescription drugs through TrumpRx

President Trump stood on stage Monday with a man who spent much of 2024 campaigning against him, billionaire Mark Cuban, and declared they share exactly one thing in common. The occasion was not a détente over politics. It was a White House event to announce that 600 generic drugs are being added to the government […]