Lauren Sforza

Commerce Committee chairs in the House and Senate released a bipartisan bill Sunday evening that aims to protect Americans’ personal data online. Sen. Maria Cantwell (D-Wash.) and Rep. Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-Wash.) unveiled the American Privacy Rights Act on Sunday that would set “clear, national data privacy rights and protections for Americans.” It will preempt states’ data...

More Democrats fear former President Trump being reelected than Republicans fear President Biden’s potential second term, according to a new poll. The poll found 66 percent of Democrats are extremely fearful of another Trump term in the White House, according to the results from The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs. Another 11 percent of Democrats said...

Two former officials of a veterans’ nursing home in Massachusetts that had a deadly outbreak of COVID-19 settled their cases Tuesday to avoid prison, according to the state attorney general. Bennett Walsh, the former superintendent of Holyoke Soldiers' Home and David Clinton, the former medical director at the home, were facing five charges of neglect...

Two suspects in connection to the deadly Moscow concert hall terrorist attack appeared in the city’s district court Sunday night. The Associated Press (AP) reported that two of the suspects in the concert hall shooting that left more than 130 people dead on Friday appeared in the Basmanny District Court on Sunday night. The AP reported...

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) on Sunday defended her move to oust Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) over the bipartisan spending deal. Greene filed a motion to vacate against Johnson on Friday as the House voted to pass a $1.2 trillion spending package to keep the government open. She said at the time that the move...

Georgia executed a prisoner Wednesday night for the first time since January 2020 after the Supreme Court denied the delay earlier in the day. Willie James Pye was executed at 11:03 p.m. Wednesday by lethal injection for the 1993 murder of his ex-girlfriend, Alicia Lynn Yarbrough, according to Georgia's Department of Corrections. He accepted a...

A Justice Department investigation found that a Maryland college failed to respond properly to allegations of sexual abuse brought against the former swim and diving coach at the school. The Department of Justice (DOJ) announced Monday that its investigation into the University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC) found that its failure to address allegations of sex discrimination...

Rep. Mike Collins (R-Ga.) praised the Supreme Court for allowing a Texas law to take effect on Tuesday that would allow state law enforcement to arrest people they suspect are illegally entering the United States along the southern border. The Supreme Court greenlighted the controversial law, S.B. 4, in a Tuesday order that Collins said was...

Russian President Vladimir Putin said Sunday that he supported the idea of a prisoner swap for his rival Alexei Navalny just days before his death. In response to a question from NBC News on Sunday, Putin said he was approached "several days before Mr. Navalny perished” that there was “an idea to exchange Mr. Navalny for some...

Authorities removed a 750-pound alligator from a residence in upstate New York last week, officials announced Friday. The New York State Department of Environmental Conservation wrote in a Facebook post that its officers seized a 750-pound alligator from an individual’s residence in Hamburg, New York on March 13. The department noted that the individual had a license...