First term Tennessee state representative Justin Pearson says he was trying to honor his ancestors for helping him rise to elected office when he wore his dashiki on the floor of the House chamber during his swearing-in ceremony Feb. 9.
The fierce storms and heavy rain that have pounded California in recent weeks could be the lifeline that one industry -- and the communities that rely on it for their own survival -- desperately needs.
Democratic Sen. John Fetterman of Pennsylvania checked himself into Walter Reed National Military Medical Center "to receive treatment for clinical depression," his chief of staff announced on Thursday.
CNN's Jake Tapper talks to Democratic Gov. Josh Shapiro who says he will not allow Pennsylvania to execute any inmates while he is in office and called for the state's lawmakers to repeal the death penalty.
The gunman who killed three Michigan State University students and critically wounded five others had a list of other targets, two handguns and plenty of ammunition when police found him on foot soon after the campus massacre, authorities revealed Thursday.
President Joe Biden remains "healthy" and "vigorous," his physician reported Thursday after a routine physical, and is "fit to successfully execute the duties of the presidency."
President Joe Biden has been criticized by members of both parties for not being more transparent and forthcoming about the decision to shoot down three aerial objects, just days after a US fighter jet took down a Chinese surveillance balloon off the coast of the Carolinas. But there may have been good reason for the lack of information made public in the days following the flurry of activity, and we should be patient as US authorities get to the bottom of what exactly these aerial objects are and where they originated from.
The head of the US Environmental Protection Agency traveled to East Palestine, Ohio, on Thursday and said the agency plans to hold the train company Norfolk Southern accountable for its role in the derailment of a train carrying hazardous chemicals earlier this month.
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President Joe Biden will speak Thursday on "the United States' response to recent aerial objects," according to the White House, following the US military's downing of a Chinese spy balloon and other unidentified high-altitude objects over North American airspace in recent weeks.
Fox's "The Masked Singer" kicked off season 9 with a Sinatra-singing Gnome played by the iconic Dick Van Dyke, who left the flabbergasted Nicole Scherzinger in tears.
