Halle Berry shouts from the Capitol, 'I'm in menopause' as she seeks to end a stigma and win funding
Halle Berry is joining a group of bipartisan senators to push for legislation that would put $275 million toward research and education around menopause, the significant hormone shift women go through in middle age.
President Joe Biden calls Japan and India 'xenophobic' nations that do not welcome immigrants
President Joe Biden has called Japan and India “xenophobic” countries that do not welcome immigrants, lumping the two with adversaries China and Russia as he tried to explain the four countries’ economic circumstances and contrasted them with the U.S. on immigration.
'What have we done?' Lawyer describes shock at possible role in Trump's 2016 victory
A lawyer who negotiated a pair of hush money deals at the center of Donald Trump’s criminal trial is recalling his “gallows humor” reaction to Trump’s 2016 election victory and the realization that his hidden hand efforts might have contributed to the win.
Will the 6-week abortion ban drive young voters to the polls?
With the six-week abortion ban now in effect in Florida, younger voters are looking forward to heading to polls in November to make their voices heard on Amendment 4, which would either approve or deny the constitutional right to abortion.
Pentagon leaker Jack Teixeira to face military justice proceeding
Massachusetts Air National Guard member Jack Teixeira, who pleaded guilty to federal criminal charges for leaking highly classified military documents about the war in Ukraine and other national security secrets, will face a military justice proceeding later this month.
Democrats advance election bill in Pennsylvania long sought by counties to process ballots faster
Pennsylvania’s House of Representatives is advancing legislation long sought by counties seeking help to manage huge influxes of mail-in ballots during elections in the presidential battleground state.
New US sanctions against Russia target weapons development, ban uranium imports for nuclear power
The United States has imposed new sanctions on hundreds of companies and people tied to Russia’s weapons development program, as well as more than a dozen Chinese entities accused of helping Moscow find workarounds to earlier penalties.
Former students of the for-profit Art Institutes are approved for $6 billion in loan cancellation
The Biden administration says it'll cancel $6 billion in student loans for people who attended the Art Institutes, a system of for-profit colleges that closed the last of its campuses in 2023 amid accusations of fraud.
Trump calls judge 'crooked' after facing a warning of jail time if he violates a trial gag order
Returning briefly to the campaign trail, Donald Trump has called the judge presiding over his hush money trial “crooked” a day after being held in contempt of court and threatened with jail time for violating a gag order.
Trump's comparison of student protests to Jan. 6 is part of effort to downplay Capitol attack
Former President Donald Trump is lamenting the possibility that Columbia University’s pro-Palestinian protesters could be treated more leniently than the rioters who stormed the U.S. Capitol in January 2021.
The DNC restores New Hampshire's delegates after a second nominating event unknown to many Democrats
The Democratic National Committee’s rulemaking arm has voted to seat New Hampshire’s full slate of delegates at the party’s convention this summer, ending a bitter feud with the state over its presidential primary no longer being the first in the nation.
More Republican states challenge new Title IX rules protecting LGBTQ+ students
Another six Republican states are piling on to challenge the Biden administration’s newly expanded campus sexual assault rules, saying they overstep the president’s authority and undermine the Title IX anti-discrimination law.