U.S. begins retaliatory strikes after drone attack killed 3 American soldiers

The U.S. began conducting airstrikes in Iraq and Syria on Friday against Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) and affiliated groups, the U.S. Central Command said, in what the Biden administration has called a “multi-tiered” response to a deadly drone attack that killed three American soldiers last Sunday. U.S. forces struck more than 85 targets

Abortion access on the ballot in 2024

While the Supreme Court’s 2022 decision to overturn Roe v. Wade eliminated the national right to abortion, leading to stricter abortion laws in more than 20 states, the fight for abortion access persists at the state level. This year, several states are pursuing ballot measures that would either enshrine abortion access in state constitutions or

5 Capitol riot defendants who led “first breach” on Jan. 6 found guilty at trial

Washington — A federal judge in Washington, D.C., on Friday handed down a series of guilty verdicts in one of the first and highest-level prosecutions stemming from the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol. U.S. District Judge Jia Cobb found Ryan Samsel of Pennsylvania and four co-defendants — James Grant, Paul Johnson, Stephen Randolph