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 Committee accelerated hearings and is scheduled to vote on proposed plans this Tuesday and send a proposal...
WASHINGTON — Cole Allen, a California man accused of rushing the White House Correspondents' Association dinner in April while armed with guns and knives, pleaded not guilty Monday in federal court to charges that he attempted to kill President Donald Trump and allegedly fired a shotgun at a Secret Service...
Washington. Voters in Nebraska and West Virginia head to state primaries Tuesday, with Nebraska’s U.S. Senate contest featuring two Democratic hopefuls who have accused one another of being 'fake' candidates while Republican Pete Ricketts seeks a full term after his 2023 appointment and 2024 special election victory; Nebraska ballots also...
United States officials are weighing sweeping structural changes to the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), the central federal body responsible for coordinating disaster preparedness and response across the country. A newly formed panel is proposing to dismantle key FEMA capabilities, a move experts say would amount to effectively closing the...
WASHINGTON — Cole Allen, a 31-year-old man from Torrance, California, pleaded not guilty Monday in federal court after authorities say he rushed past Secret Service agents and fired a shotgun during the White House Correspondents' Association dinner at the Washington Hilton on April 25, wounding a Secret Service agent whose...
Tensions between the United States and Iran intensified on Monday as a fragile ceasefire in their ongoing war showed signs of unraveling and fresh exchanges of fire were reported, according to the Associated Press. The standoff centers on the Strait of Hormuz, where Iran maintains a chokehold while the United...
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 signatures from at least 44 counties by July 1 after receiving authorization from the Ohio Ballot Board about a month...
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 to restore funding for immigration enforcement agencies. The bill would designate the funds for the U.S. Secret...
Beijing — U.S. President Donald Trump arrived in Beijing on Wednesday for a two-day summit with Chinese President Xi Jinping, holding bilateral meetings on Thursday and Friday this week. The White House announced the schedule in early May and said the agenda covers trade, rare-earths and critical minerals, Taiwan, Iran,...
Washington. Senior U.S. officials told reporters on May 11 that there is no change in U.S. policy toward Taiwan as President Donald Trump prepared to meet Chinese President Xi Jinping; the public remarks accompanied reporting that Trump authorized an $11 billion arms package in December that has not yet been...
