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The results of the midterm elections and the expected red wave that never materialized will likely dominate this week’s Sunday talk shows circuit. The Republican Party has hoped to make large gains in both houses of Congress, in line with a historical trend that usually sees the president’s party lose seats in Congress in the...

NASA announced on Friday that it still plans to launch Artemis I, a moon-orbiting mission, next week despite the landfall of Hurricane Nicole just south of the Kennedy Space Center in Merritt Island, Fla. Artemis I, which includes NASA’s Space Launch System rocket and Orion spacecraft, is set to launch early Wednesday morning. The agency...

As one of the few bipartisan issues in Congress, cybersecurity is expected to continue to garner support from both political parties no matter the final outcome of this week's midterm elections. But experts predict that if the GOP takes control of Congress, empowered Republican lawmakers could push back against government regulation in the industry. Over the past year, lawmakers have introduced and passed...

The Democrats’ surprisingly strong showing in the midterm elections has raised a familiar question: Did the pollsters get it wrong again? Heading into Nov. 8, polls from across the industry gave Republicans the clear edge in battleground races, as well as on the generic ballot. The data bolstered the belief among pundits that a red...

The general counsel for cryptocurrency trading company FTX announced on Saturday that the exchange is investigating unauthorized transactions. “Following the Chapter 11 bankruptcy filings - FTX US and FTX [dot] com initiated precautionary steps to move all digital assets to cold storage,” lawyer Ryne Miller wrote on Twitter. “Process was expedited this evening - to...

J. Michael Luttig, a former federal judge and an informal adviser to former Vice President Mike Pence, called the 2022 midterms “a resounding victory for American democracy” in a statement released Saturday. “For America’s democracy, these midterms were the most important elections in our Nation’s history. And the elections were indisputably a resounding victory for...

Even some states allowing autonomous practice often limit where midwives provide care.

As joyous as the bill signing was, a successful implementation is even more important.

Arizona Republican Senate nominee Blake Masters released a statement on Saturday indicating that he would decline to concede until all the votes were counted in his race against Sen. Mark Kelly (D). Several outlets, including NBC and The Associated Press, called the race for Kelly on Friday night, inching Democrats one seat closer to a...

Tuesday delivered some clarity, confusion and mystery — better news for the Democrats than basically everyone expected. That said, the results came despite both President Biden and Vice President Harris being unpopular with a large segment of the electorate, including a number of Democratic pundits and voters. It’s not getting as much attention as I believe...

Democrats are facing an existential crisis in Florida after a red wave engulfed the nation’s once-premier battleground state. The scale of the Democratic wipeout in Florida is hard to understate. Tuesday’s elections saw Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) and Sen. Marco Rubio (R) win landslide victories and Republicans clinch supermajorities in both chambers of the state...

Coloradans were projected to decriminalize psychedelic mushrooms and other plant-based psychedelic substances this week, becoming the second state in the U.S. to legalize the hallucinogens after Oregon. Proposition 122 decriminalizes psilocybin and psilocin — the hallucinogenic substances often found in mushrooms — as well as other plant-based psychedelics such as dimethyltryptamine, ibogaine and mescaline, excluding...

Adam Laxalt, the Republican candidate for Senate in Nevada, said on Saturday that his “victory window” has narrowed as recent ballot releases have continued to break in favor of incumbent Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto (D). Laxalt is leading by just over 850 votes as of Saturday morning, after initially taking an assertive lead over Cortez...

Republicans and Republican-leaning independents prefer Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis over former President Trump to be the GOP presidential nominee in 2024, according to a new poll released Friday. The survey, conducted by YouGov, found that 42 percent of Republicans and Republican-leaning independents said they would prefer DeSantis over Trump to run in 2024. Just 35...

Twitter CEO Elon Musk doubled down on his strict return-to-office policy on Thursday when pushed by employees to address concerns of attrition at the social media company. “What works at SpaceX and Tesla is people being in the office and being hardcore,” Musk told employees at an all-hands meeting on Thursday in audio obtained by ABC...

Hate speech surged during the first week of Tesla CEO Elon Musk’s ownership of Twitter, according to a new report released by the Center for Countering Digital Hate. Social media analytics tool Brandwatch documented that during the week of Oct. 31, the social media platform saw significantly higher numbers of slurs referring to people in...

In all likelihood, few of us have pondered what “CVS” actually stands for. As long as we can pick up laundry detergent, a Twix, and a tube of topical rash cream all in the same place, we’re fairly content.

Here's what to know.

It is an important element of any democratic system for elected leaders to speak with the authority and legitimacy which comes from being chosen by a majority of their constituents.

For the second time in just a handful of months, someone in America won a record-breaking lottery jackpot. How long will it be until we see another record-breaking prize?

A Frontier Airlines flight was forced to make an emergency landing on Friday evening in Atlanta, Ga., after a passenger was found with a box cutter. “The aircraft landed safely in Atlanta and the passenger in question was taken into custody by Atlanta law enforcement,” Frontier spokesperson Jennifer De La Cruz told CNN. The flight,...

Miami-Dade County and NBA team Miami Heat announced on Friday that they will terminate their relationships with cryptocurrency company FTX after its collapse. “Miami-Dade County and the Miami HEAT are immediately taking action to terminate our business relationships with FTX, and we will be working together to find a new naming rights partner for the...

The Justice Department (DOJ) is seeking a 15-year prison sentence in addition to fines against Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes after she was convicted of wire fraud and conspiracy earlier this year. A court filing from the DOJ asked U.S. District Judge Edward Davila to sentence the former entrepreneur to 180 months in prison and make...

Fox Business host Larry Kudlow, who served as Director of the National Economic Council under former President Trump, said on Friday that the former president should wait to announce a 2024 presidential bid until after the Georgia Senate runoff. “I think it would be terrific if my former boss Donald Trump put his own political...

It is natural for bank regulators to worry about a bank-like run on stablecoins. But in this instance, their fears are misplaced.