A high-pressure weather system could bring record-breaking temperatures to central and eastern parts of the United States this week, National Weather Service forecasters said on Monday, threatening a large swath of the country with multi-day excessive heat. Some 80 million people are currently under a heat advisory or warning as heat is expected to surpass 90 degrees Fahrenheit (32.2 degrees Celsius) and flirt with 100 degrees in some areas, which is 20 degrees above average this time of...

A record-breaking heat wave with a combination of humidity and temperatures well into the 90s was descending on cities in the Midwest and heading to the Northeast this week in what is expected to be a dangerous weather system days before summer officially begins, forecasters said. “The duration of this heat wave is notable and potentially the longest experienced in decades for some locations,” the National Weather Service said on social media on Sunday.

Democratic leaders are deploying a series of "show votes" to put Republicans in the hot seat and draw attention to their divisions on hot-button issues, including a blocked vote on IVF this week. The big picture: Democrats are focusing their attention on birth control, IVF and Supreme Court ethics — all of which are vulnerabilities for the GOP ahead of the November elections. Zoom in: Senate Democrats' have their razor-thin majority on the line in November, and so Majority Leader Chuck...

Dozens of environmental, labor and health care groups banded together on Monday to file a petition to push the Federal Emergency Management Agency to declare extreme heat and wildfire smoke as “major disasters,” like floods and tornadoes. The petition is a major push to get the federal government to help states and local communities that are straining under the growing costs of climate change. If accepted, the petition could unlock FEMA funds to help localities prepare for heat waves and...

The Biden administration’s effort to expand protections for LGBTQ+ students hit another roadblock Monday, when a federal judge in Kentucky temporarily blocked the new Title IX rule in six additional states. U.S. District Judge Danny C. Reeves referred to the regulation as “arbitrary in the truest sense of the word” in granting a preliminary injunction blocking it in Kentucky, Indiana, Ohio, Tennessee, Virginia and West Virginia. His ruling comes days after a different federal judge...

Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has dissolved his six-member war cabinet, a widely expected decision that follows the departure of centrist opposition leader Benny Gantz and his ally Gadi Eisenkot. A government spokesman said the pre-existing security cabinet and the larger full cabinet would make decisions about the war with Hamas in Gaza. Since Mr Gantz quit eight days ago over what he said was the lack of strategy for the war, there have been calls from far-right ministers...

President Joe Biden has criticized two Supreme Court justices appointed by Donald Trump. Biden's remarks came during a Saturday campaign fundraiser at the Peacock Theater in Los Angeles, where late-night TV host Jimmy Kimmel interviewed Biden and Barack Obama. Both stressed the need to defeat Trump, the presumptive Republican nominee for president, in an election that is expected to be close and among the nation's most consequential. "The next president is likely to have two new...

Social Security recipients could see their benefits cut by hundreds of dollars a month in roughly a decade if Congress doesn’t make changes. The head actuaries for Social Security and Medicare testified before the GOP-led House Budget Committee on Thursday and laid out the looming insolvency situation. The combined trust funds that Social Security relies on to pay out benefits are expected to be depleted in 2035. At that point, just 83% of benefits would be payable. As of January 2024,...

The top intelligence agency in the United States is celebrating Pride Month by inviting agents to have the transgender flag painted on their nails, participate in a “Pride Ally Challenge,” and learn from a “non-binary,” “Filipinx” activist who has taught children about her non-binary identity, a document exclusively obtained by The Daily Wire reveals. The intelligence document outlines nine different Pride Month activities held by the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI), a...

Palestine Action, an anti-Israel United Kingdom-based network, posted a video Sunday that shows their members breaking into a military factory and sabotaging equipment. The group claimed that their activists “through 3 security fences to get inside Elbit’s ‘highly secure’ compound and break into Kent’s Israeli weapons factory” and that the equipment they vandalized and sabotaged were “used to arm the Gaza genocide” in a tweet.