Rossein said some people might have confused Johnson’s 1965 order with the 1964 Civil Rights Act he signed into law that went into effect July 5, 1965. That law created the Equal Employment ...
The Obama-era change followed decades of requests from Native Alaskan leaders for the mountain’s native name ‘Denali’, a Koyukon Athabaskan word meaning "the tall one," "the high one" or "the great ...
Ye, the rapper formerly known as Kanye West, and President Donald Trump have a history that includes public statements of mutual admiration and a shared meal with a white nationalist. But a recent ...
The original footage comes from a June 2024 interview Kennedy did with podcaster Joe Rogan. Kennedy does briefly mention diabetes in the three-hour conversation, claiming that he didn’t "know kids who ...
But that didn’t include Capt. Michael Byrd, who, as a U.S. Capitol lieutenant that day, fatally shot rioter Ashli Babbitt as she tried to breach the Speaker’s Lobby. Some social media posts claimed ...
The executive order, which Biden signed in October 2022, had not spurred any lower drug prices by the time Trump revoked it Jan. 20. The order directed the Health and Human Services Department ...
A flurry of executive orders and other actions Trump issued on his first day back in office included rescinding directives by his predecessor, former President Joe Biden, that had promoted lowering ...
Citing a portion of a news article, conservative political commentator Dinesh D’Souza argued in an Instagram post that people who accept presidential pardons admit guilt. Being pardoned doesn’t equal ...
Meta didn’t force users on Facebook, Instagram or Threads to follow Trump and Vance immediately after they assumed office. Users who noted this change likely followed the official U.S. government ...
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Russian President Vladimir Putin invaded Ukraine in February 2022; fighting and airstrikes have led to more than 30,000 civilian casualties, while 3.7 million people are internally displaced, and 6.5 ...
Some legal scholars argue that the amendment was properly ratified, but for Biden to definitively say it’s "the law of the land" ignores precedent and the reality that no federal government entity has ...