A first-grade Virginia teacher who was shot and seriously wounded by her 6-year-old student filed a lawsuit Monday seeking $40 million in damages from school officials, accusing them of gross negligence for allegedly ignoring multiple warnings on the day of the shooting that the boy had a gun and was in a “violent mood.” Abby…
Taylor Taranto, a pardoned Jan. 6 defendant who was later convicted of 2023 charges stemming from livestreaming a bomb threat as he drove around former President Barack Obama’s D.C. neighborhood, was sentenced Thursday to time served and three years of supervised release. A day earlier, the Justice Department withdrew its initial sentencing memo in the…
Washington — President Trump called his meeting with Chinese President Xi Jinping in South Korea Thursday “amazing,” and said the two reached agreements on a number of items, including the resumption of U.S. soybean sales to China and a short-term deal for access to rare earth minerals. No documents formalizing the agreements have been released…
Scientists have long puzzled over the origins of a mysterious dinosaur excavated in the 1940s: Was it a young T. rex or another type of dinosaur? At first, researchers had only a tyrannosaur skull to go by, making it hard to tell if it belonged to a child or adult. Another skull and skeleton nicknamed…
Washington — Former FBI Director James Comey is urging a federal court to dismiss the two federal charges brought against him over allegedly false testimony he gave to Congress in September 2020. He’s arguing that the questions he answered, which were asked by GOP Sen. Ted Cruz, were “confusing” and “fundamentally ambiguous.” In a new…
Businesses around the U.S. are desperate for pennies. President Trump’s decision to stop producing the penny earlier this year is leaving some merchants short of the one-cent coin and struggling to give customers exact change. Unable to order fresh supplies of pennies, banks are also rationing them. Some retailers are pulling out all the stops…
The federal government is now in the midst of its second-longest shutdown, after Congress has repeatedly failed to pass a bill to fund the government on a temporary basis. The 2025 shutdown is a few days shy of the record set by the 2018-2019 shutdown, which lasted 35 days and took place during President Trump’s…
WASHINGTON — The Republican chairs of the House and Senate Armed Services Committees are speaking out against the Trump administration’s decision to pull back some U.S. troops from Romania, along NATO’s eastern border near Ukraine. Sen. Roger Wicker, R-Miss., and Rep. Mike Rogers, R-Ala., are taking issue with the fact that Congress was not consulted and…
Abby Zwerner, a former Virginia teacher who was shot by a 6-year-old student in her classroom in 2023, testified Thursday that she thought she had died in the shooting. “I thought I was dying, I thought I had died,” Zwerner said. “I thought I was either on my way to heaven or in heaven, but…
The Trump administration on Thursday announced it would set the lowest refugee admissions cap in U.S. history, allocating just 7,500 spots for this fiscal year, mostly for Afrikaners who it has claimed are facing racial discrimination in South Africa for being White. The previous lowest refugee ceiling was set by the first Trump administration in…