Biden to mark 235 judicial confirmations during White House tenure
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Washington — President Biden on Wednesday will mark the 235 judicial confirmations he secured during his single term in the White House, a figure that surpasses that of his predecessor, President-elect Donald Trump.
Mr. Biden is set to deliver remarks from the White House highlighting the judges that he nominated and the Democrat-led Senate confirmed to the federal bench. The president's judicial record includes one appointment to the Supreme Court, 45 to the federal courts of appeals, 187 to the U.S. district courts and two to the U.S. Court of International Trade.
Mr. Biden's pick of Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson for the Supreme Court was historic, as she is the first Black woman to sit on the nation's highest court.
Police in Las Vegas are expected to give updates Friday afternoon on the Cybertruck explosion that happened outside the Trump International Hotel on New Year's Day.
Federal investigators found bomb-making materials while searching the Texas home of the man responsible for the deadly truck attack on Bourbon Street in New Orleans, law enforcement officials said Friday.
The man who plowed a truck into a crowd of people in New Orleans on New Year's Day posted audio recordings online in early 2024 expressing his religious beliefs and describing music as the "voice of Satan." He made no mention, however, of plans for violence or affiliations with extremist groups in the recordings.
Mexican airline Aeromexico had the world's best record for on-time arrivals in 2024, according to a new annual ranking. Delta Air Lines scored the highest among U.S. carriers despite a computer outage that caused thousands of flight cancellations in July.
The Federal Bureau of Investigation and other federal agencies have warned about the risk of "copycat or retaliatory attacks" after a man drove a rented pickup truck through a crowd of New Year's revelers on New Orleans' Bourbon Street, killing 14 people before he was shot dead in a firefight with police.
Two days after a man drove a rented truck into a crowd of revelers on New Orleans' Bourbon Street, killing at least 14 people before he was killed in a shootout with police, his family is providing more details about his life before the attack.
Washington — President Biden and first lady Jill Biden will visit New Orleans on Monday, following the attack on Bourbon Street on New Year's Day that left at least 14 dead and dozens more injured.
The U.S. Department of Transportation on Friday announced a $2 million fine against JetBlue for "operating multiple chronically delayed flights," marking the first such penalty by the agency.
A U.S. Marine who sent an ominous letter home before he went missing in action during World War II has been accounted for over eight decades after he was killed in the Pacific, the Defense Department announced Thursday.
President Biden announced Friday that he is blocking the $15 billion proposal by Japan's Nippon Steel to buy U.S. Steel after a government panel recently failed to reach consensus on the possible national security risks of the deal.