JANUARY 25, 2025
American aviator Jean Hixson (1922-1984), a Women Airforce Service Pilot, smiling as she wipes the canopy of an aircraft, the aircraft's propeller in the foreground, United States, circa 1960. - Evening Standard, Getty Images
The U.S. Air Force will no longer teach its recruits about the Tuskegee Airmen, the more than 15,000 Black pilots, mechanics and cooks in the...
JANUARY 25, 2025
President Donald Trump signs executive orders in the Oval Office of the WHite House in Washington, Jan. 20, 2025.
Only a week into President Donald Trump's second term and he has already tested the limits of executive power, a strategy to implement -- with blazing speed -- a controversial and bold conservative agenda, from ending birthright citizenship to...
JANUARY 24, 2025
NYC immigrant advocates on edge amid ICE raids across US
NEW YORK — While New York City and Newark, New Jersey are sanctuary cities, the recent Immigration and Customs Enforcement activity and President Donald Trump's directives cracking down on immigration have many in the area fearing for their futures.
The panic is starting to impact schools and places of...
JANUARY 24, 2025
U.S. President Donald Trump speaks to journalists as he signs executive orders in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, D.C., on Jan. 20, 2025.
Rep. Andy Ogles, a Tennessee Republican, wants to amend the U.S. Constitution to allow President Donald Trump to serve a third term.
Harvard Law Professor Stephen Sachs said Ogles' amendment...
JANUARY 22, 2025
FILE PHOTO: Britain's Prince Harry, Duke of Sussex steps out of a car, outside the Rolls Building of the High Court in London, Britain June 7, 2023. REUTERS/Hannah McKay/File Photo
LONDON, UNITED KINGDOM - Prince Harry claimed a "monumental" victory over Rupert Murdoch's UK newspaper group on Wednesday after the publisher settled his lawsuit, admitting unlawful actions at...
JANUARY 22, 2025
President Donald Trump signs documents as he issues executive orders in the Oval Office of the White House on Inauguration Day this week. - Carlos Barria/Reuters
Editor’s Note: This story was originally published in 2018 and has been updated.
It may not be as oft-quoted as the First Amendment or as contested as the Second Amendment, but the 14th...
JANUARY 21, 2025
Critics are calling out President Donald Trump for issuing pardons to roughly 1,500 rioters who attacked the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, including many convicted of violent crimes such as assaulting police officers.
“I have been betrayed by my country, and I have been betrayed by those that supported Donald Trump,” Michael Fanone, a former District of Columbia...
JANUARY 21, 2025
Trump Inauguration. - Al Drago
WASHINGTON, D.C. — President Donald Trump 's second term began with efforts to deliver on key campaign promises, including his vows to crack down on immigration and restore “ energy dominance.”
In his first Oval Office appearance in his second term, he issued sweeping pardons for people charged in the Jan. 6 riot at...
JANUARY 21, 2025
Musk responds after backlash over gesture at Trump rally. - Reuters
Elon Musk has caused outrage over a one-armed gesture he gave during a speech celebrating the inauguration of Donald Trump.
Musk thanked the crowd for "making it happen", before placing his right hand over his heart and then thrusting the same arm out into air straight ahead of...
JANUARY 21, 2025
WELLINGTON, New Zealand — Among other false and misleading claims in U.S. President Donald Trump's inauguration addresses on Tuesday, his declaration that Americans “split the atom” prompted vexed social media posts by New Zealanders, who said the achievement belonged to a pioneering scientist revered in his homeland.
Ernest Rutherford, a Nobel Prize winner known as the father of...
