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Advocates, lawmaker call for Biden to sign an executive order to study reparations

Earlier this month, over a dozen civil rights and religious groups sent a letter to the White House calling on President Joe Biden to act on reparations by signing an e

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Biden announces rule on 'ghost guns, new ATF nominee

President Joe Biden, in conjunction with the Department of Justice, announced a new measure Monday to crack down on what law enforcement says is the growing problem "gh

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U.S. House speaker Pelosi postpones Asia trip after testing positive for COVID-19

The U.S. House speaker Nancy Pelosi has postponed her Asia trip after she tested positive for COVID-19, Pelosi's deputy communications director said in a tweet on Thurs

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Fact check: Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson child porn sentences ‘pretty mainstream’

Supreme Court confirmation hearings for Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson open this week amid a flurry of misleading allegations by Republican Sen. Josh Hawley that the nomin

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NYC revival plan includes tourism, clean streets, pot sales

After two years of the pandemic battering New York City, Mayor Eric Adams is hoping to steer his city toward an economic revival by luring tourists back, beautifying th

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GOP Sen. Ted Cruz joins 'People's Convoy' truckers' protest

Republican Sen. Ted Cruz rolled up to the Capitol rotunda on Thursday in a honking semi-truck, the lead vehicle of a convoy that for the past five days has encircled th

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GOP leaders condemn Greene, Gosar for attending white nationalist event

Days after GOP Reps. Paul Gosar and Marjorie Taylor Greene appeared at an event organized by a white nationalist, Republican party leaders are condemning them for atten

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Kamila Valieva falls multiple times in free skate program, finishes in fourth place in the women's individual event

Russia Olympic Committee (ROC) figure skater Kamila Valieva, who is at the center of a doping scandal, finished in fourth place in the women's individual figure skating

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Sandy Hook families settle with Remington, marking 1st time gun-maker held liable for mass shooting

Remington Arms agreed Tuesday to settle liability claims from the families of five adults and four children killed in the massacre at Sandy Hook Elementary School, acco

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Origin of rocket on course to slam into moon wrongly identified

A rogue rocket expected to collide with the moon on March 4 was wrongly identified as a SpaceX Falcon rocket stage and, instead, is likely from a past Chinese lunar mis

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APD | Criticism on President Joe Biden’s decision to avert Afghan assets to victims of 9/11

Author: Prof. Engr. Zamir Ahmed Awan, Sinologist (ex-Diplomat), Editor, Analyst, Non-Resident Fellow of CCG (Center for China and Globalization), National University o

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'Past time' to leave: US evacuates diplomats, troops from Ukraine amid 'war zone' warnings

With increasingly dire warnings from the U.S. that Russia will likely attack Ukraine in the coming days, the U.S. is evacuating its diplomats and troops in the country

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Judge rebukes RNC's 'legitimate political discourse' language at Jan. 6 sentencing

A federal judge on Thursday directly rebuked the Republican National Committee's resolution that declared the Jan. 6 riot at the U.S. Capitol "legitimate political disc

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Sen. Bernie Sanders warns of 'drumbeats' of war in Washington

Sen. Bernie Sanders gave a speech on the Senate floor Thursday expressing grave concern over the "drumbeats" of war building in Washington, D.C., amid escalating tensio

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Team China win freestyle skiing mixed team aerials silver medal at Beijing 2022

Xu Mengtao, Jia Zongyang and Qi Guangpu of Team China won the silver medal in the inaugurated freestyle skiing mixed team aerials final with 324.22 points at the 2022 W

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Supreme Court allows Alabama election map over black vote dilution claims

The U.S. Supreme Court has reinstated Alabama's new GOP-drawn congressional map over the objection of civil rights groups and decisions of two lower courts finding that

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The spectacular fall of the darling of Silicon Valley is a story that continues to intoxicate audiences

The 38-year-old entrepreneur, once the darling of Silicon Valley, could face twenty years in prison for each of the four counts on which she was convicted - thought the sentence is likely to be much lighter.