Supreme Court Justice Kentanji Brown Jackson continues to make history outside of the nation's highest court. Last Saturday (Dec. 14), the 54-year-old made her Broadway debut in the musical comedy & Juliet in a specially created one-night-only walk-on role at the Stephen Sondheim Theater, according to Playbill. With the performance, Jackson achieved a lifelong dream, reviving her acting career hopes for the singular affair. For Jackson, it stands as a full-circle moment as she penned in her Lovely One memoir her goal of becoming the first Supreme Court Justice to perform on Broadway. "I think that it means that anything is possible," explained the Harvard graduate to CBS Mornings co-host Gayle King after the show. "Five years ago, I was a district court justice; nobody knew who I was. To have both of the pieces of my fondest dreams come true in this little bit of time has been extraordinary for me."
A new report out from the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP), led by Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), accuses Amazon of manipulating data on worker injuries and ignoring safety concerns.
The president's domestic record wasn't just extraordinary. It might put Democrats back in power in four years. Read more
President-elect Donald Trump's pick to lead the Federal Communications Commission, Brendan Carr, wants the FCC to crack down on news broadcasters that he perceives as being unfair to Trump or Republicans in general.
About a month after President-elect Donald Trump emerged victorious in the 2024 presidential election, three Democratic legislators have introduced a constitutional amendment that would abolish the Electoral College if passed. Senators Brian Schatz (D-Hawaii,) Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) and Peter Welch (D-Vt.) have voiced concerns about the fact that, in the past two decades, the Electoral College has allowed for the election of a candidate who did not win the popular vote on two separate occasions: George W. Bush in the 2000 election and Trump in the 2016 election. Both of these candidates were from the Republican Party. However, Trump still would have won the 2024 presidential election even if the winner was decided by popular vote, as he garnered roughly 2 million more votes than his Democratic counterpart, Vice President Kamala Harris.
Progressive Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez on Tuesday lost her bid to serve as the top Democrat on the powerful House Oversight Committee, with veteran party member Gerry Connolly winning the majority of votes from the House's Democratic caucus. Ocasio-Cortez, 35, was one of multiple, younger Democrats who launched bids for ranking member seats on key committees, seeking to overcome older Democrats vying for the positions.
Almost no one foresees an imminent pop. Virtually every Wall Street analyst predicts US stocks will continue outperforming the rest of the world in 2025. But all this enthusiasm only tends to confirm that the bubble is at a very advanced stage.
If the consensus on "American exceptionalism" is so overwhelming, who is left to hop on the bandwagon and inflate it further?
Trump's landslide victory wasn't just defined by the swing states. He picked up territory nationwide, securing 10-point gains in some counties in Texas and making huge inroads in California. Washington was the only state that did not swing towards the Republicans in 2024, illustrating the extent of the political shift that occurred. As such, Trump is on course to become the first Republican candidate to win the popular vote in 20 years.
A lawsuit by a group of Palestinians in Gaza and American relatives accuses the State Department of giving Israel a pass when it comes to a U.S. law meant to limit military aid over human rights abuses.
A top Russian general accused by Ukraine of being responsible for the use of chemical weapons against Ukrainian troops was assassinated in Moscow by Ukraine's SBU intelligence service on Tuesday morning in the most high-profile killing of its kind. Lieutenant General Igor Kirillov, who was chief of Russia's Nuclear, Biological and Chemical Protection Troops, was killed outside an apartment building along with his assistant when a bomb hidden in an electric scooter went off, Russia's Investigative Committee, which probes serious crimes, said.
President-elect Donald Trump's pick for secretary of defense, Pete Hegseth, justified the January 6, 2021, US Capitol attack and spread baseless conspiracy theories claiming the initial break-in was a false flag operation carried out by leftist groups disguised as Trump supporters. In comments made immediately after the riot and in the days and weeks leading up to it, Hegseth also amplified false claims that the 2020 election was stolen, a narrative that fueled the violence at the Capitol that day.
Thanks in part to a court fight former Trump White House spokesman Sean Spicer lost over his firing by Biden from a three-year term to the Board of Visitors to the United States Naval Academy, the incoming president will have the legal backing to dump any of Biden's over 4,000 appointments who try to stick around. Read more
Donald Trump said he plans to sue an Iowa newspaper that printed an outlier election poll that showed Vice President and Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris ahead in the state by 3 points. Read more
President-elect Donald Trump's race to shed himself of the criminal convictions he's racked up in the four years since leaving the White House hit a roadblock Monday when a New York judge rejected his demand to let him off the hook in his fraud case involving hush money payments to adult film star Stormy Daniels. Trump was convicted on all 34 felonies in May related to his falsifying business records in a scheme to illegally influence the 2016 election through a hush money payment to Daniels. New York Justice Juan Merchan's refusal on Monday to clear him preserved those convictions.
A simple line in the Constitution allows Congress to convene a rewrite session if two-thirds of state legislatures have called for one. The option has never been used, but most states have long-forgotten requests on the books that could be enough to trigger a new constitutional convention, some scholars and politicians believe. Some Democratic officials are more concerned than ever. In California, legislation was introduced that would rescind the state's seven active calls for a constitutional convention, the first such move since Donald J. Trump's election to a second term. Read more
The Supreme Court turned back an appeal Monday from Peter Navarro, the former White House official who is set to return in Donald Trump's second term after serving prison time on contempt of Congress charges. The court declined to hear the appeal in a brief order without explanation, as is typical. Read more
