Recent days have featured the vice president of the United States lecturing the pope on morality and church doctrine, Sean Hannity making it official that he worships at the Church of Trump, Pete Hegseth quoting made-up verses from "Pulp Fiction" as if they were actual scripture, and Trump ...
So much information, streaming out in so little time. And still: Within minutes, conspiracy theories flooded the internet. The shooting at the White House Correspondents' Dinner attended by President Donald Trump on Saturday night played out in front of some of the nation's most powerful ...
Today is Tuesday, April 28, the 118th day of 2026. There are 247 days left in the year. Today in history: In 2004, the world first viewed images of prisoner abuse and torture by U.S. troops at Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq, via a report broadcast on the CBS television news program "60 Minutes II." Also on this date: In 1789, mutineers led by Fletcher Christian took control of the ship HMS Bounty three weeks after departing Tahiti, setting the ship's captain, Lieutenant William Bligh, and 18 other crew members adrift on a launch in the Pacific Ocean; Bligh and the other men on the ...
In a famous Supreme Court one-liner, reminding the legal community of the finality of the court's rulings, the late Justice William J. Brennan Jr. is reputed to have said that the Constitution means whatever any five of us say it means. This reflects the basic math that five is a majority of ...
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Republican senator who had effectively blocked confirmation of President Donald Trump's pick to lead the Federal Reserve said Sunday he was dropping his opposition after the Department of Justice ended its investigation of the current central bank chair. The ...
Today is Monday, April 27, the 117th day of 2026. There are 248 days left in the year. Today in history: In 2011, during the four-day Super Outbreak, 112 tornadoes touched down across the southeastern United States, killing 319 people in the deadliest day of tornadoes in the U.S. since 1925. Also on this date: In 1521, Portuguese explorer Ferdinand Magellan was killed in the Battle of Mactan in the Philippines as he attempted to expand Spanish colonization in the region. In 1813, the Battle of York took place in Upper Canada (modern-day Ontario) during the War of 1812 as U.S. forces ...
