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Chamblee, Georgia. Republican Brad Raffensperger, Georgia's secretary of state and a candidate for governor, spoke Tuesday in Chamblee as part of a campaign push to reintroduce himself after his 2020 refusal to overturn …
Washington, United States. U.S. government data this week showed wholesale prices jumped sharply in April, with the Producer Price Index rising 6.0 percent year‑on‑year and 1.4 percent month‑on‑month; President Donald Tr…
Missoula, Mont. residents questioned the proposed Midtown Commons mixed-use development at City Council public comment this week, expressing concern whether the project’s hundreds of housing units will be attainable for …
Washington — U.S. intelligence assessments this week show Iran has regained operational access to 30 of 33 missile sites along the Strait of Hormuz and retained roughly 70 percent of its mobile launchers and pre-war miss…
Washington — The nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office on May 12 estimated that President Donald Trump’s proposed 'Golden Dome' missile defense program could cost roughly $1.2 trillion over 20 years. The CBO report, us…
Washington, Pentagon officials told lawmakers on Tuesday that the United States' war with Iran has cost nearly $29 billion so far, up from the department's April 29 estimate of $25 billion. Jules Hurst, acting comptrolle…
Columbus, Ohio — Petitioners are collecting signatures for a proposed constitutional amendment that would prohibit construction of data centers with peak loads above 25 megawatts, seeking more than 413,000 valid signatur…
Washington: Dr. Marty Makary resigned Tuesday as commissioner of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, just over a year after taking the post. The resignation came after backlash from health industry executives, anti-ab…
WASHINGTON on May 12 — President Donald Trump announced that the United States will hold talks with Cuba after posting on Truth Social that 'Cuba is asking for help, and we are going to talk.' He described Cuba as 'a fai…
In a recent CBS 60 Minutes interview aired this week, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu claimed that Pakistan is serving as a key hub for large-scale, AI-driven bot farms seeking to influence U.S. public opinion …
Omaha — Democratic voters held a divisive primary Tuesday to select a nominee for Nebraska's 2nd Congressional District after Republican Rep. Don Bacon announced his retirement, with state Sen. John Cavanaugh, activist D…
Washington: President Donald Trump on Monday rejected Iran’s written reply to a U.S. peace proposal, calling the document "garbage" and saying the ceasefire was "on life support" after Tehran insisted on lifting a U.S. n…
WASHINGTON — Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth will be questioned Tuesday by House and Senate defense subcommittees as lawmakers review the Trump administration's proposed $1.5 trillion military budget for 2027 and press of…
Beijing — President Donald Trump traveled to China and met President Xi Jinping at the Great Hall of the People on May 14 during a three-day state visit from May 13–15, following a White House itinerary released May 12. …
Washington — President Donald Trump will visit doctors at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center for a medical and dental checkup on May 26, the White House said Monday. The administration characterized the appoint…
Washington — President Donald Trump on Monday rejected Tehran's latest counteroffer and warned the ceasefire between the United States and Iran was on 'massive life support,' describing Iran's response as 'garbage' and a…
Washington — U.S. President Donald Trump is weighing renewed military action against Iran as negotiations over Tehran's nuclear program have stalled, sources told CNN on May 12. Multiple outlets relayed that Trump has gr…
Arcadia, California: The city’s mayor, Eileen Wang, agreed Monday to plead guilty to a federal felony charge for acting as an illegal agent of the Chinese government, according to Department of Justice and FBI statements…
The U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) entered a partial shutdown early on May 12, 2026, after Congress and the President failed to enact appropriations for the current fiscal year. The lapse in funding affects m…
BATON ROUGE. State senators moved this week to redraw Louisiana's six congressional districts after a recent U.S. Supreme Court ruling that limited the use of race in mapmaking; the Senate and Governmental Affairs Commit…
WASHINGTON. Senate Republicans this week added a $1 billion allocation for Secret Service security adjustments tied to a proposed East Wing ballroom to a Department of Homeland Security spending package that also seeks t…
Washington, DC. A bipartisan group of lawmakers said they will introduce legislation to block Chinese-linked vehicles and components from the U.S. market, citing national security and data surveillance concerns. Republic…
Washington. On Monday, Virginia Democrats filed an emergency appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court seeking to halt a Virginia Supreme Court decision that last week voided a voter-approved constitutional amendment to adopt a n…
Washington — The Supreme Court on Monday issued an administrative order temporarily leaving access to the abortion pill mifepristone unchanged while the justices consider whether to permit restrictions imposed by a feder…
The Virginia Supreme Court has invalidated a redistricting referendum that had reshaped four of the state’s congressional districts to favor Democrats, handing Republicans a significant legal victory. In a ruling issued …