Washington — The U.S. urged other nations this week to support a 'Trade Over Aid' initiative at the United Nations, and Secretary of State Marco Rubio instructed U.S. diplomats to deliver a formal demarche to foreign officials, seeking endorsements ahead of a formal presentation planned for the end of April. The...
The United States and the Philippines are deepening defense cooperation near the South China Sea, focusing on Balabac, a strategic island group close to disputed waters and the Spratly area. Balabac hosts a 300-hectare Philippine air base designated in 2023 as an Enhanced Defense Cooperation Agreement site, giving U.S. forces...
Minneapolis. Hennepin County prosecutors announced Thursday that Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent Gregory Donnell Morgan Jr. was charged with two counts of second-degree assault after Minnesota authorities say he pointed a firearm at occupants of a vehicle while driving on Minnesota State Highway 62 on Feb. 5; the arrest warrant...
Washington — U.S. District Judge Richard Leon on Thursday blocked above-ground construction of President Donald Trump's planned $400 million, 90,000-square-foot White House ballroom while permitting below-ground work on a bunker and other national security facilities at the East Wing demolition site, following instruction from an appeals court panel to reconsider...
Gulf of Oman — A U.S. Navy destroyer enforcing a new maritime blockade intercepted two oil tankers that had departed Iran’s Chabahar port on Tuesday and ordered them to turn back, according to Reuters. The destroyer contacted the tankers by radio as they transited the Gulf of Oman, but it...
Neillsville, Wis. Clark County Circuit Court Judge Lyndsey Brunette announced her campaign for the Wisconsin Supreme Court on Thursday, April 16, entering the 2027 race to replace Justice Annette Ziegler, who has said she will not seek reelection. Brunette released a campaign video and cited protecting fundamental rights, voting access...
Annandale, Virginia. Former Virginia Lt. Gov. Justin Fairfax fatally shot his wife, Dr. Cerina W. Fairfax, in their Annandale home overnight Thursday and then shot himself, Fairfax County Police said. Officers found both adults dead shortly after midnight in the 8100 block of Guinevere Drive after a teenage child placed...
WASHINGTON — U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and Joint Chiefs Chairman Gen. Dan Caine said at a Pentagon briefing on April 16 that U.S. forces in the Middle East are prepared to restart combat operations and have mounted a maritime blockade on ships entering or leaving Iran to pressure Tehran...
WASHINGTON — The U.S. Commission of Fine Arts reviewed and conceptually approved President Donald Trump’s proposed Triumphal Arch at an entrance to the U.S. capital on Thursday and considered related plans to paint the Eisenhower Executive Office Building white and construct an underground visitor screening center; commissioners examined design plans...
Washington, D.C. — U.S. Senator Tina Smith took the Senate floor around 7:40 p.m. Central Time to protest legislation that would remove protections for Minnesota's Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness, prompting a rescheduling of a planned vote to Thursday, April 16 and drawing public statements opposing mining near the watershed. Washington,...
