Two women campaigning for President Joe Biden after facing medical emergencies because of abortion restrictions in their states visited Michigan on Tuesday to highlight what they say are the risks to women’s health since federal abortion protections were overturned. Democrats are aiming to make abortion rights a central issue in the 2024 election in the battleground state, hoping it will appeal to undecided voters and some members of the party who don't like how Biden has handled the Israel-Hamas war.
Washington is redoubling efforts to disrupt migration routes that lead to the United States, in particular via charter flights to Central America, top diplomat Antony Blinken said at regional talks Tuesday.The United States has "stepped up efforts against those preying on vulnerable migrants," notably those flying people from Asia, Africa and elsewhere to Central America, Blinken said.
Alexander Louie, 34, told authorities he was not taking his HIV medication so he could purposely infect his partners.
The 2024 campaign is at a stage when the two sides are trying to energize the base and gull the other candidate to waste time and resources.
The federal judge in Florida presiding over the classified documents prosecution of former President Donald Trump has canceled the May 20 trial date, postponing it indefinitely. The order from U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon had been expected in light of still-unresolved issues in the case and because Trump is currently on trial in a separate case in Manhattan charging him in connection with hush money payments during the 2016 presidential election. The New York case involves several of the same lawyers representing him in the federal case in Florida.
The US military has completed construction of its Gaza aid pier, but weather conditions mean it is currently unsafe to move the two-part facility into place, the Pentagon said Tuesday.The vessels and the under-construction pier were moved to the port due to bad weather last week.
Starbucks, once one of America's most cherished brands, is in a rut. Even long-time former CEO Howard Schultz is worried.
A shooting outside Drake's Toronto mansion early Tuesday morning left a security guard seriously injured, police said.
Fossilized footprints found in southeastern China suggest that a six-foot-tall megaraptor once roamed the region during the Cretaceous period.
Stormy Daniels, the porn star at the heart of Donald Trump's historic criminal trial, testified Tuesday -– in sometimes explicit detail –- about an alleged 2006 sexual encounter with the former president in a hotel penthouse suite.What followed was detailed testimony about the sexual encounter Daniels said she had with Trump -– his boxer shorts, the sexual position, that he did not wear a condom -– all while the former president stared on in silence, stony faced.
Ryan says he would be writing in a Republican candidate instead of voting for Donald Trump.
Vermont lawmakers have passed a so-called "Climate Superfund Act" designed to make fossil fuel companies pay for damage from weather disasters fueled by climate change.
"A fatal serious adverse event was reported as cardiac arrest for a participant in the Phase 2 DAYLIGHT study," a company spokesperson told Reuters in an emailed response. The trial tested boys 2 years to less than 4 years of age with DMD, a genetic muscle wasting disorder in which most patients lack the protein dystrophin which keeps muscles intact.
The body of a sixth construction worker was recovered from the Key Bridge wreckage site in Baltimore Tuesday.
The rally in Wall Street stocks took a pause Tuesday while many overseas bourses pushed higher amid renewed optimism that the US Federal Reserve could cut interest rates this year.Wall Street had risen the last three days following Fed Chair Jerome Powell's statement last week that he does not expect further interest rate hikes.
Chinese companies are forcing Western automakers to change their approach to electric vehicles if they want to remain competitive in a growing global industry.
House Speaker Mike Johnson and GOP Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene are meeting again on Tuesday as the Georgia congresswoman continues to dangle the threat of an ouster vote against the speaker.
The independent Oversight Board that hears appeals about content decisions on Facebook and Instagram said Tuesday it would consider whether the pro-Palestinian phrase “from the river to the sea” violates the platforms’ rules including their ban on hate speech.
TikTok made good on its promise to sue the US over a new law that could result in a ban of the video app in America. Its claims face a number of hurdles in US courts.
Rafi Spitzer, a rabbi in upstate in New York, hopes to reclaim the church's cemetery after over 80 headstones were recently vandalized.