The Senate’s 10th attempt to reopen the government failed Thursday, with a GOP short-term funding bill drawing just 51 votes after progressives rejected promises of a future debate on Affordable Care Act subsidies. Majority leader John Thune offered a scheduled vote on the subsidies, but Bernie Sanders and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez...
Hamas says it has returned all the bodies of hostages it can find without special machinery in the devastated Gaza Strip, but Israel argues the group still owes at least a dozen under the ceasefire terms. The US-backed deal, in effect since earlier this week, requires the return of all...
On day 16 of the shutdown, the Senate rejected the House’s short-term funding bill 51-45, the tenth failed attempt to reach the 60-vote threshold to reopen the government. House speaker Mike Johnson blamed Democrats, calling an extension of Affordable Care Act tax credits too complex for a stopgap and saying...
Months after the January Palisades Fire leveled his Pacific Palisades home, Spencer Pratt has recast himself as an unrelenting watchdog, arguing the catastrophe was preventable and suing the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power. Tending the hummingbirds that survived his scorched hillside, he channels grief into public broadsides over...
Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker reported more than $1.4 million in gambling winnings for 2024, part of nearly $10.7 million in total income, according to tax filings released by his campaign. The money came from blackjack at a Las Vegas casino during a vacation with his wife and friends, the campaign...
A federal judge ordered immigration officers in the Chicago area to wear body cameras, citing televised images of tear gas and clashes with protesters during the Trump administration’s immigration crackdown. U.S. District Judge Sara Ellis, who previously required badges and barred certain riot-control tactics against peaceful demonstrators and journalists, said...
Alarmed by news images and reports, U.S. District Judge Sara Ellis said she has serious concerns that federal agents are defying her temporary restraining order protecting journalists and peaceful protesters in Chicago. In a hearing called on short notice Thursday, Ellis, 'not happy,' ordered any agents with body cameras to...
India’s foreign ministry said it was “not aware” of a call in which US President Donald Trump claimed Prime Minister Narendra Modi agreed to halt Russian oil purchases. Trump, speaking at the White House on Wednesday, said Modi assured him imports would end “within a short period of time.” An...
Australia's tropical rainforests have flipped from carbon sinks to sources, the first known worldwide, according to a Nature study of 49 years of data from 20 Queensland forests. Extreme heat, atmospheric dryness, drought and more intense cyclones have killed trees faster than new ones grow, turning woody biomass into a...
The Justice Department is expected to ask a federal grand jury in Maryland on Thursday to indict John Bolton, President Donald Trump’s former national security adviser, multiple sources told CNN. Bolton is under investigation for alleged mishandling of classified information, including notes he kept in an AOL email account. This...
