Boston voters for the first time elected a woman and an Asian American as mayor, tapping City Councilor Michelle Wu to serve in the city’s top political office. (Nov. 2)
The Navy still wasn't sure last week, but it has now completed its investigation into the incident involving USS Connecticut, a new report says.
My head knows that Republicans are a threat to our democracy, but my heart understands that Democrats are making our problems worse.
Some QAnon conspiracy theorists gathered in Dallas as a theory circulated that John F. Kennedy Jr. would reappear and announce Trump was reinstated.
Two U.S. congresswomen renewed demands Tuesday for U.S. Customs and Border Protection to provide a formal apology and release records in connection with the January 2020 detainment of 200 Iranian Americans at the U.S.-Canada border. Reps. Pramila Jayapal and Suzan DelBene, both of Washington state, sent a letter to the federal agency, requesting a public apology and renunciation of the hourslong detainment of travelers with links to Iran as they crossed the border from Canada into Washington in the days following a U.S. drone strike that killed a top Iranian general.
US Air Force officials say the service's current seven fighter airframes are too expensive to maintain, and the plan to trim the force down to four.
"I'm not vaccinated, and I'm not getting vaccinated because I'm an American," the Georgia representative said on Steve Bannon's podcast.
Private jet travel remains a blind spot for world leaders and the wealthy when discussing climate change.
Sen. Kyrsten Sinema, D-Ariz., a key holdout, endorsed the agreement.
Bahrain's foreign ministry on Tuesday urged citizens in Lebanon to leave immediately, the state news agency reported, amid a deepening row over comments by a Lebanese minister that were critical of the Saudi-led intervention in Yemen. Saudi Arabia expelled Lebanon's envoy and banned all Lebanese imports on Friday. Bahrain and Kuwait followed suit.
Photo Illustration by The Daily Beast/GettyFormer Kentucky Rep. Charles Booker does not like Sen. Rand Paul. Not just because Booker is vying for Paul’s Senate seat in this week’s election, but also because he doesn’t feel like Paul represents Kentucky.“My ancestors were lynched in the Commonwealth of Kentucky. You can’t hide anymore, Rand Paul,” the Democrat tells host Molly Jong-Fast in the latest episode of The New Abnormal about why he’s over the GOP senator.His run, Booker says, “is giving
Ethiopian officials Tuesday ordered residents in Addis Ababa to register their firearms and prepare to protect their neighbourhoods, as fighting raged north of the capital between government and rebel forces.
In his reply, Trump “falsely cast people who entered the Capitol on Jan. 6 as ‘agitators not associated with President Trump,’” the Post reported.
The Build Back Better reconciliation bill focuses on, in part, climate change solutions along with child and medical care. Manchin is a key holdout.
Republican Arizona Attorney General Mark Brnovich made a stark prediction, and host Harris Faulkner didn’t disagree.
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The campaign was "one of the most cross-governmental troll operations we've disrupted to date," Facebook said.
If Texas can hand off its enforcement authority to the general public, "no constitutional right is safe," US Solicitor General Elizabeth Prelogar said.
Progressive Michelle Wu defeated Annissa Essaibi-George to win Boston's race for mayor on Tuesday, becoming the first woman of color and Asian American elected to the office in Boston's nearly 200-year history. Essaibi-George conceded the race.Why it matters: The majority of Boston's residents today are people of color and they are flexing their political muscles as they are in other parts of the country. Wu's victory is a dramatic turnaround for a city that nearly 50 years ago experienced one o
BEIRUT (Reuters) -Lebanon's foreign minister said Saudi Arabia was dictating impossible terms by asking the government to reduce the role of Iran-backed Hezbollah https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/how-hezbollah-widens-irans-middle-east-reach-2021-10-15, adding Beirut's row with Riyadh https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/lebanon-ministers-hold-crisis-meeting-over-saudi-dispute-2021-10-30could be resolved if the kingdom agreed to a dialogue with the new Lebanese cabinet. "If they just want Hezbollah's head on a plate, we can't give them that," the minister, Abdallah Bou Habib, told Reuters in an interview on Tuesday.
To analyze a New York regulation on when guns may be carried in public, the Supreme Court may look back in history -- way back to 1328.
