Ukraine’s military forces Russian troops east of Kyiv back 55 km from city center
STR/NurPhoto via Getty Images(WASHINGTON) — The Pentagon has been providing daily updates on the Russian invasion of Ukraine and Ukraine’s efforts to resist.
Here are highlights of what a senior U.S. defense official told reporters Wednesday on Day 2…
Ketanji Brown Jackson clears major hurdle in historic Supreme Court bid
Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images(WASHINGTON) — The nation’s first Black woman nominated to the U.S. Supreme Court, Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson, cleared 19-hours of grueling questioning at the Senate Judiciary Committee on Wednesday, appearing headed towar…
Trump repeatedly pressed to ‘remove’ Biden, ‘rescind’ 2020 election results, GOP lawmaker says
Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images(WASHINGTON) — Former President Donald Trump repeatedly pushed GOP Rep. Mo Brooks of Alabama to “rescind” the 2020 election results, “remove” President Joe Biden from office and redo the last presidential election in sever…
Jeffrey Epstein’s private US Virgin Islands locations up for sale
Marco Bello/Bloomberg via Getty Images(NEW YORK) — The executors of the estate of convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein have listed for sale the two private Caribbean islands the late financier owned off the east coast of St. Thomas, U.S. Virgin Isla…
Kenosha officer accused of kneeling on girl’s neck resigns from school district
amphotora/Getty Images(KENOSHA, Wis.) — A police officer in Kenosha, Wisconsin, resigned from his off-duty role at the local school district amid an investigation into the tactics he used to restrain a young girl while stopping a fight in which she wa…
Arrest made in mass shooting at Arkansas car show that killed 1, injured 26
Courtesy of Amber R. Taylor(DUMAS, Arkansas) — A man was arrested in connection with a mass shooting at an Arkansas car show that left more than two dozen people injured and one dead.
Brandon Deandra Knight, 22, of Jacksonville, Arkansas, was arreste…
US airline CEOs call on Biden to lift mask mandate on travel
Stefan Cristian Cioata/Getty Images(WASHINGTON) — A group of CEOs from all major U.S. airlines called on President Joe Biden to lift the federal mask mandate on public transportation.
The group — which includes the heads of American Airlines, Delta …
Idaho governor signs bill banning abortion after 6 weeks modeled after Texas law
Darin Oswald/Idaho Statesman/Tribune News Service via Getty Images(BOISE, Idaho) — Idaho became the first U.S. state to enact a law modeled after the recent legislation passed in Texas that bans abortions after six weeks, before many women know they’r…
DNC leaders push to change presidential nominating schedule, putting Iowa’s first-state status in peril
ilbusca/Getty Images(WASHINGTON) — National Democrats are pushing to alter the party’s presidential nomination calendar, with senior party officials proposing a draft resolution that puts Iowa’s first-in-the-nation status in jeopardy.
The order of th…
US formally accuses Russian forces of committing war crimes in Ukraine
Al Drago/Bloomberg via Getty Images(WASHINGTON) — Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Wednesday announced that the State Department has made a formal assessment that Russian forces have committed war crimes in Ukraine.
“Based on information currentl…