For the first time since the establishment of the District of Columbia 230 years ago, the House of Representatives voted to declare the city to be the nation’s 51st state, a legislative milestone that supporters say begins to right historical wrongs.The vote on Friday afternoon, which fell mostly along party lines, comes as the United…
Sen. John Kennedy, R-La., told Fox News' "Your World" Friday that the latest push to make Washington, D.C. a state is "all about power, like everything else in Washington D.C."“Some say it would be unconstitutional," Kennedy told host Neil Cavuto. "If you look at Article I of the Constitution, the idea of the founders was that there would be…
The House of Representatives on Friday will vote on whether to make Washington D.C. a state, making it the second time the House has voted on such a measure in the nearly 230 years since the district was established -- but the Democratic-led push is unlikely to succeed due to strong Republican opposition.Lawmakers donned masks with…
U.S.|Grand Juror in Breonna Taylor Case Says Deliberations Were MisrepresentedThe Kentucky attorney general’s office said it would release the panel’s recordings after a grand juror contended in a court filing that its discussions were inaccurately characterized.Breonna Taylor's family and the lawyer Ben Crump, right, said the charges a Kentucky grand jury agreed upon in the…
(John Finney Photography/Moment/Getty Images) An abnormally bad season of weather may have had a significant impact on the death toll from both World War I and the 1918 Spanish flu pandemic, according to new research, with many more lives being lost due to torrential rain and plummeting temperatures. Through a detailed analysis of an ice…