Month: January 2023

Friday was the fourth day of voting for House speaker. Photographers captured tense moments in the House chamber as lawmakers negotiated. [MORE]

Katelyn McClure helped her boyfriend spread a feel-good story about a homeless veteran, garnering more than $400,000 in GoFundMe donations. She is also serving a one-year federal term. [MORE]

Questions about race and representation permeated the debate over who can best reflect the will of the American electorate on the Hill. [MORE]

A Trump administration ban on the devices, which enable a shooter to rapidly fire multiple rounds from semi-automatic weapons after an initial trigger pull, was struck down by a federal appeals court. [MORE]

The team is cutting ties with Bauer, whose unprecedented 324-game suspension over sexual misconduct allegations was reduced two weeks ago. [MORE]

No one won the estimated $940 million jackpot Friday, pushing the lottery prize to the third-largest Mega Millions in U.S. history ahead of the next drawing Tuesday night. [MORE]

As a bomb cyclone hits California this week and dumps massive amounts of water on the state, some people are asking: why can’t we save the water for times when we desperately need it? [MORE]

Immigration arrests doubled this past fiscal year, largely as a result of assisting Border Patrol agents with the surge of migrants on the southern border. [MORE]

The Phoenix Police Department says that it has launched an internal investigation following the arrest of Journal finance reporter Dion Rabouin, who was conducting interviews outside a Chase Bank. [MORE]

The online buzz over high profile Britons’ ties to the trans-Atlantic slave trade put attention on the ongoing reparations push in Barbados, and other Caribbean nations. [MORE]