Author: Audrey Baker

A Washington, D.C., restaurant has agreed to pay more than $500,000 to its workers and the city to resolve a 2023 wage theft lawsuit, the D.C. attorney general’s office announced Tuesday. The lawsuit alleged that Swahili Village, an African fine-dining restaurant located in northwest D.C., systematically stole wages and tips from its staff and violated…

Trump Media & Technology Group’s stock soared on Monday after the attempted assassination of former President Donald Trump. Shares in Trump Media, Truth Social’s parent company, spiked by more than 30% after trading began Monday morning. The stock is now valued at around $40 per share — up from $30.88 on Friday, the day before Trump…

Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-MN) said she is now cancer-free after a “minimally invasive” procedure to remove a small calcification. The Minnesota Democrat was diagnosed with Stage 1A breast cancer in February 2021 and had surgery to remove a tumor in her right breast before beginning radiation therapy later that year. In November 2021, she said…

First lady Jill Biden will lead the presidential delegation to the opening ceremony of the 2024 Paris Summer Olympics on July 26, the White House announced Friday. Second gentleman Doug Emhoff, the husband of Vice President Kamala Harris, will lead the delegation to the closing ceremony on Aug. 11. Sen. Tammy Duckworth (D-IL) will lead…

Hackers accessed the call and text message records of “nearly all” of AT&T’s customers between May 1, 2022, and Oct. 31, 2022, the company said Friday. AT&T said it learned in April the data was illegally downloaded from the company’s workspace on a third-party cloud platform. The compromised data includes files containing call and text…

A statue of Jewish Holocaust victim Anne Frank in Amsterdam has been vandalized with red “Gaza” graffiti. Photos posted to X on Tuesday show “Gaza” painted in red on the base of the monument in Merwedeplein, Amsterdam, near the residence where Frank lived with her family from 1933 to 1942. The act drew swift condemnation…

Sen. John Fetterman (D-PA) slammed House Speaker Emerita Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) for her comments suggesting President Joe Biden has not yet decided whether to remain in the presidential race. “As far as I know, [Pelosi’s] never run for any office outside of the House, and she’s never run for the president, and she’s certainly never…

Voters will decide in November on a ballot measure that would offer new parents in Baltimore $1,000 in an effort to fight child poverty. The Baltimore City Board of Elections approved the measure to appear on the ballot last week after it received the 10,000 signatures required. The initiative was spearheaded by the Maryland Child…

The country is evenly divided on whether former President Donald Trump should serve prison time for his felony conviction in the New York hush money case, according to a new poll by the Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research. Half of the survey respondents think Trump should not be sentenced to time in prison,…

White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre slammed former President Donald Trump’s attacks on Vice President Kamala Harris at a Friday press briefing. “I think it’s gross, I think it’s disturbing, and it’s not OK,” Jean-Pierre said in response to a question about the increased scrutiny of Harris from Republicans, including Trump, after President Joe Biden’s…